Looks like Donald Trump just figured out his remaining allies are too weak to save him

| 8:46 pm EST February 14, 2024
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Donald Trump, senile, desperate, and delusional, doesn’t seem to have a grasp of what would or wouldn’t save him at this point. He’s headed for bankruptcy and prison, and he’d need… well, there’s really nothing that can save him from that.

But Trump increasingly seems hung up on the idea that the Republican House can save him. He’s just not clear on how this is supposed to happen. While Jim Jordan is holding sham hearings into prosecutors just so he can fundraise off those dead-end hearings, Trump seems to think that this kind of thing is somehow going to save him.

Trump also seems to be under the impression that he’ll somehow be saved if the Republican House impeaches President Biden. It’s not clear why this would be the case. Such an effort would overwhelmingly fail to remove Biden. And since it would be such an obvious sham, it would merely make Biden more popular heading into reelection.

More to the point, the Republican House doesn’t even have the votes to bring impeachment charges against Biden. We saw this when they gave up on a Biden impeachment this week and instead settled for impeaching a cabinet member. This isn’t some “test run” for a future Biden impeachment. It’s the end of the story. It’s what you do when you can’t achieve your real goal and you at least want to make it look like you did something.

Now Trump is openly whining about the Republican House’s failure to even try to impeach President Biden. Not that such an impeachment would help Trump even if it did happen. But Trump now seems to be figuring out that his allies in the Republican House, for all their loud and empty bombast, are too weak to do anything to actually help him.