“Thank you to everyone!!! I have never had so much support on anything before,” Trump wrote in an all-caps message on his Truth Social app. This message was in reply to his latest indictment. The former President is well aware of the benefits of his multiple court cases. If, as expected, he adds a charge in Georgia, he will probably be in court throughout the nominating process. With cable news already following each courtroom journey, this will be wall-to-wall Trump. 

As I predicted, Democrats load the Republican’s weakest candidate with questionable charges to minimize coverage of Trump’s opponents for the nomination while rallying Republicans to his defense. The result is both the ex-president and the Democrats get the candidacy both want.

Anyone will want to run against a candidate who never polled or received votes tallying over 50%. Once Trump has locked the nomination, putting old, corrupt Joe Biden out to pasture in favor of someone young and unsullied will follow. The trap set for the Republicans will snap shut.

Of course, a young accomplished Republican candidate puts the plan in jeopardy. Hence, the full court press on any leading young Republican appearing in the polls. Without Biden’s baggage, California Governor Gavin Newsome or Michigan Governor Gretch Whitmer look much more palatable against the old, largely disliked, encumbered Trump than a young, highly successful Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

This circumstance tells us why the Florida Governor has faced unrelenting derision from the Democrats and their media allies. Reelected by a close to 20% margin and one who appointed a blue-ribbon panel to create a mandatory course teaching the true story of slavery, they paint him as an unlikable racist.