The more contempt directed at Trump, the more his base loves him
Only two people can possibly benefit from Donald Trump’s 37-count federal indictment arising out of his alleged retention of classified documents: President Joe Biden and Trump himself.
Many Trump stalwarts have claimed that the indictment is part of an effort by the Biden Justice Department to remove the president’s currently leading Republican rival from the race. I suspect the opposite is closer to the case. The indictment makes Trump’s nomination as the Republican candidate more likely, and if there are any clever people close to Biden, they know that.
For his base, support of Trump is a brazen repudiation of the despised elites. The more Trump can portray himself as a “victim” of the establishment, the ruder the gesture. As he himself once boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and I would not lose any voters.” The more contempt directed at Trump, the more his base loves him.
President Biden knows that his only hope for re-election is to run against Donald Trump, and to make the fitness of the latter for the presidency the sole issue of the campaign. Trump lacks the discipline and mastery of the issues to mount an effective campaign against Biden’s agenda, which virtually every poll shows is deeply unpopular. And that is even before Congressman James Comer’s Oversight Committee has completed its work unraveling the Biden family influence peddling racket.
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