attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it s the most aggressive step, perhaps, taken by donald trump to assert executive and attorney-client privileges to keep witnesses from cooperating with that investigation. how this fight is resolved could determine whether the firewall around donald trump falls, opening the flood gates about what aides and lawyers were telling him on and around january 6 and what decisions he was making. this comes as the january 6 committee is about to hold its first public hearing in more than two months. that s going to happen next wednesday. it could be the final hearing before the panel releases its final report. and of course the suspense is building about what its end game will be. will the committee formally recommend a criminal prosecution of donald trump to the doj in connection with the capital attack? that remains a possibility. in the classified documents case, the trump team has until next friday to present proof to a special master that
donald trump is the righteous victim being persecuted on your behalf. that resonates with his base. democrats will look at that and say, gee, this is a party that s supposed to be for law and order embracing lawlessness, supposed to be for personal responsibility. he s taking no responsibility for anything. you have reasonable republicans who just want a pathway to victory, and all of these becomes pebbles on the path, become stones in the shoe of anybody who s running with that kind of baggage. and they will begin, possibly, to look for other champions. so, the problem for him is when it s primary season, does a desantis or anyone else say, as was said earlier, you can t get there with this much baggage. let someone else with the same politics get there without the baggage. and every time one of these things happens, i guarantee you at least one more republican joins the camp up. i need a new champion. all you need is a few of them to have a competitive primary. how likely might it