The New Election Reality Starts Next Week
Will a fuming Trump in Court get old?
There are seven months until the 2024 US Presidential election and Republican candidate Donald Trump will spend nearly two months, minimum, of them sitting in a courtroom and squirming, talking to himself, and giving the press a series of unhinged soundbites before and after.
His legendary impatience and lack of self control have worked for him so far, but the question is, how will an extended stretch of this stuff play out with voters? Remember, this trial is going to be juicy with a porn star, Playboy Bunnies, convicted felons, tabloid publishers, and other fringe players testifying under oath and it will be covered daily by the press.
Supposedly Trump is thrilled by that. Except that he won’t be showing up here and there and using those appearances as publicity ops. He will be there four days a week, all day, for six to eight weeks by most estimates.
We are going to see the real, day to day Trump, facing a reality that he cannot control. His attorneys have exhausted their meager battery of legal weapons trying to stall this, the first of his criminal trials, and are siphoning money from his campaign at alarming rates in the process.
