* Trump’s preening, equivocating teasings about a 2024 run are stoked by ego, cult followers and spineless GOPsters. But even more impactful are criminal scenarios yet to play out in Atlanta and New York (Manhattan). He can run a lot easier as a twice-impeached (“witch hunt”) president than as an indicted one.
*By all accounts, rioters blaming Trump for their Capitol attack are finding little legal standing. In short, being a gullible, seditious punk is no defense.
* GOPster Mash: He said it a couple of years ago, but few doubt that Congressional retiree and former Republican House Speaker John Boehner feels any different about Sen. Ted Cruz. “Lucifer in the flesh,” he called him. Indeed, the devil is still in the details—and Cancun Cruz is still trying, as we know, to sleaze his way onto a Trumpublican presidential ticket.
* “The belligerence of his tweets contributed to the erosion of Mr. Trump’s re-election support among suburban voters, who simply couldn’t take it any more.”–Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal.
* MachiNATION: a country too enamored of conspiracy theories.