FILE - Former President Donald Trump waves after announcing he is running for president for the third time at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. At this point during the last presidential election in 2020, more than 15 Democrats had jumped into their party’s open presidential race. But this year, the open Republican field for 2024 still officially remains small, and dominated by Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
Good morning. I realise you will probably cock an eyebrow when you read this, so please know that it’s said advisedly: Donald Trump is in fairly serious trouble.
Post-locker room talk, post-Mueller, post-tax returns, post-everything you may take such claims with a pinch of salt – but today the array of problems facing Trump look different. He is drifting far from the high-water mark of his popularity, many of his former supporters show signs of wanting to move on, and the legal consequences that may befall him are hard to shake off by sheer force of incoherent social media post.
