Donald Trump’s 2024 farce is falling apart ahead of his espionage indictment
Just how close is Jack Smith to criminally indicting Donald Trump for espionage? One legal expert just predicted that it’ll happen within “days not months.” And of course last week Trump’s own attorneys broke the news to him that they expect Smith to indict him “soon.” By now it’s surely starting to sink in for Trump that it really is all over for him.
Perhaps that’s why Trump looked so unenthused and vacant during his Iowa “campaign” speech yesterday. That’s right, Trump is still out there hawking himself as someone who will supposedly be a candidate for President in the 2024 election. But whether Trump’s “2024” stunt is an attempt at convincing the public that he’s going to magically survive all of this, or merely an attempt at convincing himself that he’s going to survive it, even he seems to be rapidly losing hope.
There was the pathetic video footage yesterday of Trump meeting with individual supporters in Iowa. Trump had no enthusiasm or interest in what was going on at all, and was clearly just going through the motions. He didn’t want to be there, and couldn’t even bring himself to fake it. He also bizarrely went on stage with hair that was pointy on both ends, as if he’d taken a nap just before going on stage and rolled over a few times and not bothered to run a comb through it, apparently no longer caring about his own physical appearance in public.
At one point Trump got into a back and forth with one of his own anti-vaxxer supporters, and Trump seemed half-present for the exchange at best. It was a reminder that Trump’s core supporters have always been whack jobs, and over the past couple years they’ve become even bigger whack jobs, espousing stuff that’s even nuttier than the nutty stuff that Trump sold them on to begin with. Trump can’t seem to keep up with his base anymore when it comes to the crazy stuff, but even as he tries, it just pulls him further and further away from positions that any persuadable voter near the middle could ever get on board with.
Even if Donald Trump weren’t going down for espionage and other crimes, even if he were totally off the legal hook, he’d still have a heck of a time trying to make things work in 2024. He’s pretty far gone in the cognitive department, his base is further gone than ever in the lunacy department, and his base alone was never going to be able to get him elected to anything.
But all these built-in 2024 troubles, which Trump would have faced even if he were legally in the clear, are seemingly being magnified by the fact that he’s about to be criminally indicted for espionage against the United States. His head doesn’t seem to be in it. His heart certainly isn’t in it. His “campaign” is all just an act, and as he starts to see that it’s all for nothing and he’s going down anyway, we’re watching him give up in real time.
