Donald Trump’s worst nightmare

| 9:09 am EST March 4, 2020
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We’d imagine Donald Trump has a lot of nightmares. But after he’s spent the past three years watching so many of his criminal co-conspirators get arrested, convicted, and sent to prison, his worst nightmare has to be that he loses the 2020 election and then ends up going to prison himself. It’s why Trump was willing take the huge risk of trying to conspire with Ukraine to rig the election against Joe Biden.

For all the marbles missing from his head, Donald Trump clearly understands that Joe Biden’s broadly appealing candidacy was always going to be the biggest threat to him in 2020. And Trump knows he’ll get criminally prosecuted if Biden becomes President and picks someone like Kamala Harris or Adam Schiff to be Attorney General. So Trump tried to knock Biden out of the race, and got himself impeached in the process.

Trump may have been under the impression that his Ukraine antics were worth it, impeachment and all, because at least Biden started struggling. Well, not really. His “struggles” were mostly about the format and demographics of the first three states, and he was always going to surge out of South Carolina to at least some degree. But now it’s clear that Biden is in the driver’s seat – and that is in fact Trump’s worst nightmare.