I told you Donald Trump wasn’t really running in 2024

| 9:00 pm EDT June 9, 2023
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This DOJ indictment sets up the likelihood that Donald Trump will have two different federal criminal trials before the election: one in Florida for the Espionage Act charges, and one in Washington DC for the January 6th related charges. That’s before getting to Jack Smith’s apparently ongoing investigation into Trump for wire fraud, which could result in yet another criminal trial.

This is on top of Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial scheduled for the spring of 2024, and his Fulton County criminal trial which will be scheduled once he’s indicted this August.

That’s a total of four criminal trials, all of which are likely to result in convictions, each of which will put him in prison. And this joker thinks he’s running for President. I don’t have the words for how absurd this notion is.

The truly bizarre part is that so many folks within the media and pundit class, on both sides, are still going along with this farce that Trump will be able to run a viable primary candidacy while being convicted in four different trials, and then run a viable general election candidacy from prison. Why not claim the Tiger King is a viable 2024 candidate while we’re at it? He’s technically running for President from his prison cell.

The problem is that the folks who are now insisting Donald Trump will somehow magically be a viable candidate in 2024 in spite of his DOJ indictment, are the same people who spent the entire time telling us that he’d never be indicted by the DOJ. These are not, to borrow a phrase, serious people. It’s obvious that Trump’s “2024” effort is somewhere between a grift and a hallucination. It’s sure as hell not a campaign. And it’s time everyone says so.