Donald J. Trump wins hearts by fighting for America and Americans in an age when freedom, justice, and the American way are under assault. His narrow win in 2016 was epic, and he achieved some success before falling victim to his fatal flaw.
The tragedy of Trump is that he’s more peevish than principled. Consequently, he is easily baited by his opponents into distracting fights over petty matters. How else can one explain his current predicament and the danger he presents to our principles?
His enemies don’t even hide their designs. Democrats lay traps in plain sight, and the muscle head of U.S. politics walks right into them, time after time. True, he rallies his MAGA loyalists with each fight, no matter how ill-conceived. Most Republicans who are not Trump haters watch his travails with admiration and morbid fear: Can the old lion escape the jackals yet again?
But, a criminal trial brought by the Deep State over moldy documents that Trump just could not bring himself to return is scheduled for the end of the presidential primary season. Republicans have to ask: Is this trial a struggle over the future of freedom in this country? Or just collateral damage from Trump’s inability to skip a fight?
Bear in mind, too, that there’s still more to come in les travails de Trump. We are always just a day away from more drama. Special Counsel Jack Smith is targeting Trump for another federal trial, and there are also possible state charges in Georgia, both arising because Trump picked a fight he could not win after losing the 2020 election.
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