Donald Trump may have just finished himself off

Donald Trump spent an hour on the phone with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday, trying to find a way to convince Raffensperger to somehow magically overthrow Joe Biden’s victory in the state. This is according to the Washington Post, which has obtained a recording of the phone call.

This is felony election tampering on Trump’s part, at the least. But he’s already committed hundreds if not thousands of felonies while in office, and this is merely one more. This isn’t a time for us to clutch our pearls, or fret over the notion that Trump might now somehow magically be winning. In fact it’s the opposite.

The real story today is that Trump has become so panicky, he’s reduced to trying foolish things that have zero chance of saving him, and he’s stupidly incriminating himself on tape while trying them. This helps underscore that Trump is 100% finished; if he had any viable options, he wouldn’t be reduced to this kind of dead end idiocy.

It would be better if Trump were simply willing to go quietly. But with just seventeen days left, it’s more clear than ever that he’s already defeated, and that there is literally nothing he can do about it. If this is how Trump wants to go out, I’m happy to watch him destroy himself.