Donald Trump decided to formally announce his 2024 run almost immediately after the 2022 midterms – largely in the hope that he could clear the Republican field and/or escape potential criminal prosecution. As for the latter part, the former guy is facing a whole host of investigations with a special prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department, in addition to the trouble his organization is in.

When it comes to the former part, Trump isn’t really dampening the field as the media keeps fawning over Ron DeSantis as the next authoritarian strongman to be appointed by the party and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is also eying a presidential bid. While Trump had near unanimous support from Republicans just a year ago, some polls show him placing even after Liz Cheney. A number of other lower profile Republicans have come out of the woodwork teasing presidential bids that will prevent Trump from gaining another foothold.

Even the media isn’t particularly interested in covering his campaign as it becomes clearer that there’s no campaign manager behind it and not really much of a staff, as former members of his administration have their own political ambitions or have gone on to become pundits.

All his announcement has done is largely just keep people waiting – for pundits to see if he actually has any political future left and for Republicans to see when he manages to finish himself off and they can make the rounds without the same degree of media scrutiny. While we have to still be on the lookout for the next terrible candidate from the GOP, the former guy has already sabotaged himself with another major disadvantage – as merely being a candidate isn’t enough to save him from criminal charges.

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