Trump Makes His Indictment a Certainty

When we recorded the McCarthy Report on Thursday, I told Rich Lowry I was still pegging at 70 percent or higher the likelihood that former president Donald Trump would be indicted by the Justice Department. A day later, I’m now certain he’ll be indicted. The question is whether it will be just one indictment or more.

Trump has jumped the shark, as the kids used to say. His gratuitous attacks on two successful, popular Republican governors — both of whom, unlike him, could conceivably defeat President Biden or some other Democratic nominee in the 2024 election — have ended his chances of capturing the GOP presidential nomination two years from now. If the rant aimed at Florida’s Ron DeSantis wasn’t bizarre enough for you, the one launched at Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin was certain to be described as racist in our current age of hair-trigger sensitivity — though, for what it’s worth, I sense that the former president is losing his grip and that the racism charge assumes that more thought went into his “Young kin . . . Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?” eruction than actually did.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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When we recorded the McCarthy Report on Thursday, I told Rich Lowry I was still pegging at 70 percent or higher the likelihood that former president Donald Trump would be indicted by the Justice Department. A day later, I’m now certain he’ll be indicted. The question is whether it will be just one indictment or more.

Trump has jumped the shark, as the kids used to say. His gratuitous attacks on two successful, popular Republican governors — both of whom, unlike him, could conceivably defeat President Biden or some other Democratic nominee in the 2024 election — have ended his chances of capturing the GOP presidential nomination two years from now. If the rant aimed at Florida’s Ron DeSantis wasn’t bizarre enough for you, the one launched at Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin was certain to be described as racist in our current age of hair-trigger sensitivity — though, for what it’s worth, I sense that the former president is losing his grip and that the racism charge assumes that more thought went into his “Young kin . . . Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?” eruction than actually did.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.