Despite everything Donald Trump could still be president again in 20 months' time

Ron DeSantis is now in the race for the White House. The Florida governor is tweeting his way into a presidential campaign alongside Twitter king Elon Musk. All very jazzy and new-style. Almost at the same time as DeSantis launches his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination, Donald Trump gets the news that he is to face trial in March next year during the primary season, charged with business fraud over the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who claimed she had an affair with the president before he was president. In the normal world, this should have been excellent news for DeSantis and very bad news for Trump. But there is nothing normal about politics in the US when Donald Trump is around which is why I believe the date for Trump's trial just eight months before the election will be irrelevant. In fact it might well help his cause because it will give him even more publicity than he gets every day already and it will no doubt boost his claim that the Biden administration is out to get him and it's all fake news.The donations will keep rolling in. So, despite the upcoming trial, despite other possible legal confrontations over his retention of classified documents and his claimed role behind the January 6 2021 attack on the Capitol, despite the arrival of a serious candidate in DeSantis for the Republican nomination and despite a million other things, I still think there is every chance that Donald Trump will win the nomination, will beat Joe Biden and will be president once again. That's the way it is in America. A helluva lot of voters love him and will vote for him whatever he does or did in the past.