You are entitled to take this straight to the bank … which is that I will go to my grave wondering how on God’s good Earth does Donald John Trump remain relevant to any political discussion.
But … he is. Relevant. He is a player. He remains in the news each day. Do the media ignore him? No. They can’t. Why? Because he is — after all — a former president of the United States. He sat in the Oval Office for four years and during that time he had access to every national security secret imaginable.
Public opinion polling continues to suggest that Trump remains the favorite among Republicans to run for POTUS again in 2024. That fills me with a mix of chills and absolute rage.
This individual was impeached twice on allegations that he committed crimes against the government. He wiggled free both times because too few Republicans voted to convict him in either Senate trial.
Now we have the 1/6 House committee, the one looking into the insurrection — that Trump incited and resulted in the second impeachment. The signals are beginning to suggest that the bipartisan committee likely could seek a criminal indictment from a federal grand jury.
Yes, the former POTUS could be indicted by the Justice Department on myriad charges relating to his involvement with the insurrection. Will it happen? Beats the daylights out of me. I do have hope that DOJ will seek accountability by the president of the United States.
With all of that, all that immense baggage, Donald Trump remains a player in the U.S. political game.
What in the world has happened to this country, to a once-great political party, and to our national sense of right and wrong?