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Trump and the GOP

 So far not a single presidential hopeful opponent has made a single disparaging comment against Trump and his dealing with secret and top secret documents.  The reason is simple, they have nothing to gain and everything to lose.


1.  This is not their fight, there is no reason for them to say anything about the case, or even comment on how the justice department has been behaving towards Trump.  If I were a political strategist for DeSanti I will tell him to shut up not answer question and not be cornered.  Trump has done a lot of damage to his own cause because of his inability to shut up.  Case and point losing the civic case against A.J Carroll.  The man is his own worse enemy.

2. Wait until Trump is too weak or his reputation too damaged the real risk is that Trump will launch a third party to fight against the GOP.  Right now Trump has money, still has some support and could still win this case, although the odds are against him.  In addition, Trump is burning through attorneys at an unprecedented rate, sure there are a lot of lawyers in the US, still he has destroyed so many careers that the new one are no longer the better lawyers -- he will soon hire the ambulance chaser.

3.  The GOP is convince that if they let all these lawsuits go ahead, that it will reduce their own nefarious activities, January 6th and all that.  So far only DeSanti has pushed the pardon idea, the objective of doing this is to ensure that those being prosecuted shut up.  Already the GOP has been caught with the false electors in Georgia -- where the GOP represented the false electors, and failed to communicated to their clients the offer of pardon for information.  

4. There is still plenty of time until 2024, there is no need to antagonize low information  voters who are probably unaware that Trump is being indicted.  There is no value added in the current cycle for those seeking the presidency to say anything about Trump.  Time is their friend.

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