Both Project Veritas and the MAGA movement were built around powerful, egocentric leaders who see themselves as above the law. Both were also constructed on the quicksand of conspiracy theories and lies," he wrote for MSNBC before predicting, "Veritas was brought down by a combination of outside demands for accountability, O’Keefe’s egotistical overreach, and internal divisions. And it appears that a similar fate awaits Trump’s MAGA empire."
After suggesting, "O’Keefe’s willingness to lie and his sense of being above the law were a precursor for Donald Trump when he entered the presidential race," Creamer claimed the similarities go even further.
"O’Keefe allegedly treated Project Veritas’ funds like his own piggy bank — much the way Trump treated the government’s classified documents, which he famously says are 'mine,'" he wrote.
Trump is treating his fundraising like “his own piggy bank,” and he’s not campaigning (his last rally was less than “sold out”). He’s avoiding debates, a strategy that works for him so long as he walks on water. But he’s running the same old same old, and may have exceeded his sell-by date. There are at least indications Trump’s limitations are becoming obvious. And his own personal white whale, impeaching Biden, is not exactly garnering the unalloyed support of all the crewmembers of the Pequod.
And the general election is still more than a year away: with three, if not four, criminal trials, before November 2024. I’ll say again: the cost of trial is going to equal or exceed what Trump has spent so far on any one case. The expense of criminal trials is going to eat up funds raised for anything, and the time he must spend in court/not campaigning (at all) is not going to improve his numbers or his fundraising.
In other words, long way to go, and a lot we KNOW is going to happen. It’s what we don’t know that turns inevitable challengers into has-beens who never had a chance. Did anybody see Hillary losing in 2015? Or in ‘16? Right now Trump is almost inevitable because he sucks all the air out of the room.
But the room needs air. And the air in this room is getting stale. Familiarity breeds contempt, and Trump’s schtick is, arguably, becoming too familiar. He’s in the room, but more and more people are leaving it.
Trump is an attention junkie. But what if people get tired of giving him the attention? Boebert is talking like she’s ready to get out of the spotlight she chased so hard. MTG doesn’t want to go back to chasing cameras outside the Capitol, but what other future does she have? Gaetz wants to be Governor of Florida. Ken Paxton wants Cornyn’s job because he’s seen how hard Ted Cruz doesn’t work; and he wants to spend more time as far away from his wife as he can get.
And House Republicans are starting to talk about how dysfunctional the House is, because they want somebody else to blame for the shit they’re being covered in. The rats in the barrel are eating each other.
Pass the popcorn. I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
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