Jacob Heilbrunn

January 6 Committee turns Trump from predator to prey

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With the January 6 Committee’s recommendation to the Justice Department last night to prosecute Donald Trump on four counts of insurrection, obstruction and conspiracy, he has gone from predator to prey.

Like Jay Gatsby, who believed in the ‘orgastic future that recedes before us year by year’, he has never doubted in his abilities to gull the gullible, to fool the foolish. But his green light has now turned red as the greatest show on earth, or at least America, is about to come to an abrupt terminus.

Marooned on Mar-a-Lago, Trump can only rely on the loyalty of a dwindling band of faithful retainers, including a 31-year-old named Natalie Harp who, the Washington Post reports, helps prop up his faltering ego by supplying him with flattering press reports from the MAGA ecosphere.

Poor Trump! He is discovering that gratitude, a commodity he never specialised in, is an unknown category in the political world.

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