Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes branded MAGA a cult and declared that “liberals are right” in a rant Saturday.

The infamous Holocaust denier and admirer of Adolf Hitler — who caused outrage in late 2022 when he was invited to a dinner at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, along with rapper Kanye West — spoke out after seeing reaction to the “garbage” gaffe made by President Joe Biden this week.

MAGA followers had jumped on their interpretation of Biden’s comment, meant as a condemnation of a right-wing comedian calling Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage” at a Trump rally.

Trump's followers claimed he was saying they were garbage.

“At the Trump rallies, they’re yelling trash for Trump, trash for Trump,” Fuentes said, as reported by the Daily Beast.

“And I saw other people. I saw white guys. I saw Hispanic guys, Hispanic guys inside trash cans jumping out of them with Trump signs, white guys with garbage bags that say trash for Trump.”

“That was the moment when I realized Trumpism was a cult. That was the moment when I realized liberals are right. That was the moment when I realized it had gone too far. It is Frankenstein’s monster. We have created a golem. It is a problem.”

Fuentes, once a hugely outspoken Trump fan, has recently been more critical.

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“You know, for years, liberals said it’s a cult. You’re in a cult. And I said, well you’re going to jail. It is a cult, and we’re in it, and you are going to jail: that’s how I felt about it for the past eight years,” he said.

“But then I saw them dressing up as trash, like uncritically, just dressing up as garbage, and saying, ‘We’re garbage. Yeah, we’re garbage.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I think we have a problem.’”

He also criticized Trump’s off-message speeches at his rallies.

“Trump goes up and gives these ridiculous rallies, rambling for hours, talking about Hannibal Lecter and other stuff,” he said.

“Then he defends it and says he’s weaving. People go, ‘This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.’ Like, no, it isn’t. These are not like the Trump rallies from the beginning.”

Shocked Trump staffers “pleaded” with Donald Trump to abandon plans to use an offensive slur as a new nickname for President Joe Biden, a report claimed Saturday.

Tim Alberta based his revelation, made in The Atlantic, on conversations with several Trump camp insiders in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.

He was told that in June, as concern about Biden’s mental capacity grew and before the president dropped out the presidential race and was replaced as the Democratic Party nominee by Kamala Harris, Trump announced he’d come up with the new monicker.

“The guy’s a re—,” he said, using a slur referring to somebody with a mental disability.

“He’s re—------.I think that’s what I’ll start calling him. Re—--- Joe Biden.

Alberta said three separate people told him about the conversation, which they said happened aboard Trump's campaign plane.

The three “pleaded with Trump not to say this publicly,” Alberta reported. He said they were joined by other campaign staffers after they heard about the conversation.

“They warned him that it would antagonize the moderate voters who’d been breaking in their direction, while engendering sympathy for a politician who, at that moment, was the subject of widespread ridicule.”

His desire to use the name also puzzled them, as Trump’s popularity in the polls was soaring at the time, Alberta wrote.

“Why would he jeopardize that for the sake of slinging a juvenile insult?”

Alberta continued that the staffers spent days nervously waiting to see if the nickname would be used. Ultimately, it was not.

“Over the next several days — as Trump’s aides held their breath, convinced he would debut this latest slur at any moment—they came to realize something about Trump,” he wrote.

“He was restless, unhappy, and, yes, tired of winning. For the previous 20 months, he’d been hemmed in by a campaign built on the principles of restraint and competence. The former president’s ugliest impulses were regularly curbed by his top advisers; his most obnoxious allies and most outlandish ideas were sidelined.

“These guardrails had produced a professional campaign—a campaign that was headed for victory. But now, like a predator toying with its wounded catch, Trump had become bored. It reminded some allies of his havoc-making decisions in the White House. Trump never had much use for calm and quiet. He didn’t appreciate normalcy. Above all, he couldn’t stand being babysat.”

Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Alberta the name “was never discussed and this is materially false.”

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Social Security could be drained of cash in just six years if Donald Trump becomes president in 2025, a report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warned Monday.

The nonpartisan group concluded Trump’s stated plans for his next administration would speed up the fund becoming insolvent.

Kamala Harris’ policies, it found, would have an negligible effect on the future of Social Security.

“I can’t think of anything that would be this order of magnitude,” said the group's senior policy director, Marc Goldwein, about the perceived effect a Trump presidency would have.

Among the Trump policies that concern the committee are promises that Social Security recipients would pay no federal income tax on their benefits. Currently, 40 percent of beneficiaries pay taxes, which go directly back to fund Social Security.

The report estimates that plan alone would cost $1 trillion over 10 years.

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Deporting undocumented immigrants, many of which have payroll taxes taken from their wages, would cost millions of dollars, the report said, while plans to put tariffs on imports could also hurt Social Security.

Not taxing tips would also hurt funding for Social Security, with the report estimating a cost of between $150 million to $1 trillion over 10 years.

“All added up, the report forecasts that Social Security under Trump would hit the point where by law it must cut benefits in 2031 or 2032,” the Washington Post reported.

Both Trump and Harris have promised to protect Social Security, but the Post said neither has shared a comprehensive plan.

Donald Trump's campaign team went on a behind-the-scenes meltdown mid-way through the former president’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, a new report revealed Monday.

As moderators fact-checked claims in realtime, his senior advisers began berating senior executives at the network, demanding the challenges stop.

Trump’s top aide, Suse Wiles, even made a call to ABC’s top president, the Washington Post reported.

“Trump’s advisers — including Chris LaCivita and Miller — erupted on ABC executives and journalists in the middle of the debate, according to the people familiar with the situation,” the Post reported.

“They implored the network to stop fact-checking for the rest of the event and said they had breached their promise, and a call was even lodged to the president of ABC News by Susie Wiles, the campaign’s top aide. At least one Trump adviser demanded to talk to the moderators during the debate.”

A contract signed by Trump’s team before the ABC debate and reviewed by the Post had no stipulation that he would not be fact-checked, according to the report.

But the team flipped as Trump received pushback over claims that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, with moderator David Muir interrupting to say the city manager “told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”

ABC News did not comment on the Post’s report.

“Everyone who watched the ABC debate agreed that it was a 3-on-1 fight with 2 moderators who wrongly ‘fact-checked’ President Trump multiple times, but did not fact check Kamala Harris ONCE, even though she spewed multiple lies on the debate stage,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

“The ABC debate was widely viewed as one of the worst moderated debates in history, yet President Trump still won.”

The outburst from Trump’s handlers was unsuccessful at stopping the challenges, but it represents a clear move to make it acceptable for him to utter claims without expectations of fact-checking, the Post reported.

Earlier this month, he pulled out of a sit-down with CBS’ “60 Minutes” because, the show's producers said, he objected to being fact-checked.

“Within the political establishment on the right, it is now considered quite legitimate — and quite legitimate to say publicly and openly — that you disapprove of fact-checking,” Lucas Graves, author of “Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism," told the Post.

“Precisely because of Trump’s unusual relationship with the truth — even for a politician — it’s hardly surprising that he would object to it so volubly and so forcefully.”

Georgia Senator and Baptist pastor Raphael Warnock hit Donald Trump with a lesson from the Bible that he slammed him for selling during his Democratic National Convention speech Monday.

“Yes, i saw him,” Warnock told the crowd. “i saw him holding the Bible and endorsing a Bible as if it needed his endorsement.”

He was referencing a fundraising push that saw Trump selling $60 God Bless the USA Bibles, named after MAGA-supporting country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic song.

“He should try reading it!” shouted Warnock.

“It says do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God. He should try reading it. It says love your neighbor as yourself, it says in a much as you've done to the least of these, you have done also unto me.”

“I choose the American covenant you pluribus unum, out of many one, I choose January 5 [the day he was elected in 2021], I choose a nation that provides a path for ordinary people and give every child a chance.”

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A once-committed MAGA foot soldier abandoned Trump — and will be a key part of the Democratic National Convention Monday, the New York Times reported.

“I was quite deep into that world,” Rich Logis told the news outlet, describing how his “MAGA second family” could take “precedence over my own blood family.”

The Florida businessman volunteered for Trump, contributed to his campaign and fundraisers of his supporters. On Monday, he will describe his experiences to delegates in a video testimonial.

In 2021, as MAGA went down the anti-COVID vaccine rabbit hole, Logis lost faith. And he described it as emerging from a cult.

“All of these various pathologies about sex and race and Christian theocracy,” he said, “it keeps adherents in this constant perpetual state of desperation and feeling very panicked and hopeless.”

Logis is now vice chair of Florida Republicans for Harris and runs a nonprofit group called Leaving MAGA, the Times reported.

“There has to be an offramp,” he said. “There’s got to be a place for them to go, to make it just a little bit easier for them to leave. Because it’s not going to be easy at all.”

Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate just backfired with President Joe Biden’s shock announcement Sunday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow argued.

The host said Vance was only picked because Trump thought shoring up conservative support was more necessary to his campaign than winning over undecided voters — because, she said, he saw running against Biden as an easy victory.

“He wanted him for governing, not campaigning,” she said.”

She added, “They picked J.D. Vance because they thought they had this election in the bag, and Joe Biden did this today, and now it is an absolutely different ball game.

“J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are going to lose in November and Donald Trump is going to regret picking J.D. Vance as his running mate.”

Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the race after weeks of concern from high-profile Democrats about his cognitive ability. He endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris to take over.

Now that Trump could potentially have more of a fight on his hands, Vance’s far right-wing views will be more of a liability to Trump than he expected, Maddow said.

His extreme stance on issues such as abortion and no-fault divorce were held up as examples of believes that could now hurt the Republican campaign.

“Any Democrat who can talk about the kinds of issues where J.D. Vance has taken the kinds of stances … those are not 50/50 issues in this country. They are not 60/40. He is taking the kind of stances that single digits of Americans support,’ Maddow said.

“You do not need any type of Democrat in particular to prosecute a case against J.D. Vance. He is a real weirdo from a really, really narrow slice of the far right side of the ideological doctrine.

“They picked him because they didn't think he would have to be defending himself at all. Because he thought he didn't need to compete very hard to win, he picked J.D. Vance. He picked someone who's not going to help him at all.”

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Frenzied MAGA devotees are going down a new conspiracy rabbit hole after President Joe Biden’s stumbling debate performance with Donald Trump.

The right wing has developed a new rallying cry that’s an offshoot of their proclamation that Biden is unfit for the presidential office, Politico reported Thursday, which is that the Democrats and the mainstream media colluded for months to cover up his decline.

‘The biggest hoax in history has been exposed,” Trump adviser Stephen Miller yelled at the National Conservatism Conference being held in Washington, D.C. this week.

“Anybody who’s anybody in the Democratic Party participated in, knew of and covered up Biden’s cognitive dysfunction while allowing secret unnamed staffers to run the country.”

The theme is repeated by multiple MAGA figures.

“I think now this will go down as another journalistic failure that has betrayed the public by running interference for Biden [and] obfuscating the truth that the man is in what appears to be severe cognitive decline,” Vivek Ramaswamy, who unsuccessfully ran against Trump to become the GOP’s presidential nominee.

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And, on Tuesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity targeted the “cabal of Biden enablers and liars and state-run media” for a cover-up.

“The charade, the cover-up, the corruption, the lying is now officially over,” he said. “It has been obvious that Joe was never up to the job, but the media mob did their best to cover this up and lie for him for years.”

“Our task,” added Miller, “is to make the case to the American people that a party that is so hell-bent on power that it is willing to engineer a conspiracy of this scope and magnitude must be booted from the halls of power in a thunderous fashion this November.”

Ramaswamy told Politico the “cover-up” was just the latest example of the media working in cahoots with the Democratic Party.

“If on the eve of the last election, we had not seen the Hunter Biden laptop story dismissed as Russian disinformation and suppressed and silenced by social media companies in a systematic way — and if the election before that, you hadn’t seen the Russia collusion hoax that has been broadly disproven — then I don’t think that in this context, people would focus on the media dimension of this,” he said.

“This seems like the latest avatar of what we’ve seen for the last couple of cycles.”

Meanwhile, many Democrats have also criticized the media’s handling of the debate’s aftermath, saying it’s been ultra-focused on what they call a “bad night.”

Donald Trump ally Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) compared the former president’s election denial claims to a violent, racially-tinged disputed vote in 1876 during a New York Times interview this week — and on Saturday he got a harsh history lesson from the same newspaper.

The right-wing Republican, rumored to be on Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, whined that dismissing “Stop the Steal” grievances was taking “this very legitimate grievance over our most fundamental democratic act as a people, and completely suppress[ing] concerns about it.”

Then he compared it to the 1876 election.

“Here’s what this would’ve looked like if you really wanted to do this,” he said. “You would’ve actually tried to go to the states that had problems. You would try to marshal alternative slates of electors, like they did in the election of 1876. And then you have to actually prosecute that case, you have to make an argument to the American people.”

His comparison infuriated Times columnist Jamelle Bouie.

“Let’s look at what happened in 1876,” he said.

“In that race, the Democrat, Gov. Samuel Tilden of New York, won a majority of the national popular vote but fell one vote short of a majority in the Electoral College. The Republican, Rutherford Hayes, was well behind in both. The trouble was 20 electoral votes in four states: Florida, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina.

“In the three Southern states, where the elections were marred by fraud, violence and anti-Black intimidation, officials from both parties certified rival slates of electors.

"Hayes believed, probably correctly, that had there been “a fair election in the South, our electoral vote would reach two hundred and that we should have a large popular majority.”

Had Blacks been allowed to vote, the election result would likely have been overturned, he wrote.

The dispute resulted in months of legal battles and a threat by Democrats to seize a statehouse by force.

“It is strange for Senator Vance to cite it as an example of what should have been done in 2020,” Bouie wrote.

“The big and most important reason is that there was actual fraud and violence and intimidation in the 1876 presidential election cycle. In one incident in Hamburg, S.C., a paramilitary death squad of white Democrats — called Red Shirts for their attire — stormed a local armory and kidnapped more than two dozen Black citizens, executing several men on the spot.”

He added, “If Trump voters had been attacked, intimidated and defrauded, then there might be reason to make the comparison with 1876 and demand serious investigation into the integrity of the vote."

“But as we know from actual litigation carried out over two months, there was no fraud to speak of. The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure — and among the most scrutinized — in American history.

"What Vance calls the “legitimate grievances” of the Jan. 6 rioters were actually sour grapes. They lost, they did not like it, and they were determined to change the outcome by any means necessary. There’s no reason any of us should respect their tantrum."

Donald Trump ally and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum was put on the spot Tuesday as he appeared to violate a judge’s gag order while being interviewed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

Burgum, who accompanied Trump to his hush money trial, was speaking as the trial resumed after a lunch break.

While repeating many of Trump’s talking points about the trial being a political witchhunt, he claimed the judge and his daughter were politically biased.

He also attacked the witness currently giving testimony, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.

“[People] see right through this thing when you've got a judge that donated to Joe Biden, when you've got prosecutors that supported Joe Biden, when you've got the judge's family members that are benefiting financially as Democrat operatives and then when you've got, as you just said, the lead in this whole trial rests on the credibility of someone who spent three hours this morning describing in great detail how he lied to a grand jury, how he lied to Congress, and how he lost in in court cases.

“And so this is it's just a tough thing. The prosecution's got a tough job to try to build their case on someone who's a serial perjurer.”

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A gag order put in place by Judge Juan Merchan forbids Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, court staff or their families. Trump has already been found to have violated it 10 times

But the order will also be violated if Trump asks somebody else to talk about them.

Collins jumped on that fact.

‘I believe [the Joe Biden donation] was to the tune of $35,” she said.

“And then you also mentioned his daughter and her political work, that was something also that the former president heatedly attacked him for, attacked her for on social media until his gag order that he's under right now was expanded to include members of the judge's family and also members of the prosecution's family.

“Did Donald Trump ask you to come out and criticize the judge's daughter?”

“No, not whatsoever,” replied Bergum.

“I'm here completely as a volunteer.”

Trump is facing 34 charges of business fraud involving hush money payments allegedly paid to an adult movie actress to silence her claims she had a sexual relationship with him.

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CNN’s Dana Bash interrupted a Republican Congressman Sunday as he tried to skirt a question about Donald Trump’s attacks on the daughter of a judge in his hush money trial.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) had been dancing around Bash’s question about the ex-president's social media attacks targeting Loren Merchan, in which he named her and claimed her work as a political consultant proved his trial was biased.

Bash also asked about Trump posting violent images showing President Joe Biden hogtied.

“He has been aggressively attacking the judge, overseeing one of his trials, in your state of New York,” said Bash.

“He's also gone after the judge's daughter, posting her name and picture on social media on Friday. He targeted another perceived enemy, the president of the United States, his rival for the White House. He posted a video with violent imagery of Biden hogtied in the back of a pickup truck.

“Does Trump going after a judge's family, promoting violent images of President Biden, cross a line?”

But Lawler dodged the question.

“Look, I think obviously the former president has every right to defend himself in court. He has every right to defend himself as through the proper legal channels,” he said.

“I think everyone needs to tone down down the rhetoric, the language and obviously social media has become a vehicle by which to bludgeon people. I just think at the end of the day, the former president, current president, and on down, all of us have a responsibility to check our language, to watch what we're saying, and to focus on the issues at hand at the end of the day.”

But Bash wouldn’t let him duck giving her an answer and butted into his response.

‘To be fair,” she said, “When you have a candidate for president who is facing a legal situation going after not the judge, not just the judge, but putting photos of the judge’s daughter, name, and face on social media. I just want to be clear. are you denouncing that?

“I know you talked about both sides, but I'm asking you about this specific issue.”

Again, Lawler avoided denouncing Trump’s actions.

“Listen, Dana, families should always be off limits obviously, the former president has every right to defend himself in court but I think the focus of this campaign and this election should be on the American people and the issues facing the American people.”

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Donald Trump's Bible-hawking Easter message was skewered by Saturday Night Live in its latest cold open, in which the story of the resurrection of Jesus was re-told featuring the holy book-hawking ex-president as the Messiah.

"That's right, it's Easter!" Trump — played by James Austin Johnson — announces as he strides out of the tomb holding up his $60 book.

"That time of year when I compare myself to Jesus Christ. That's just a thing I do now and people seem to be okay with it. And if you think this is a bad look, imagine how weird it would be if I started selling Bibles. Well..."

Trump then holds up a leather-bound book, similar to the one named"God Bless the USA Bible" after country singer Lee Greenwood's patriotic ballad sales of which he pitched for $59.99 in a Truth Social post last week.

"Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again," he wrote in the post.

It followed an earlier post in which he compared his legal troubles to the suffering of Jesus at Easter.

The Saturday Night Live crew weren't going to let that pass.

“Look at this beautiful Bible, made from 100 percent Bible,” Johnson's recreation of Trump said on the show.

“As you know, I love Bible. It’s my favorite book. I’ve definitely read it. My favorite part is probably the ending. How it all ends up. But this is a very special Bible. And it can be yours for the high, high price of $60.”

He then shows illustrations from the book, including a picture of Trump in his trademark suit standing by Noah's Ark, and another of him floating in a basket next to Moses.

"Trump in the basket," he says. "Right behind Moses, about to pass on the left."

The SNL Bible also comes with a Trump toaster, that makes toast featuring the image of the ex-president.

“I’m doing this for the glory of God,” he said. “And for pandering and mostly for money.”

"It comes with everything you like from Bible, like the story of Easter, which primarily concerns Jesus, not so much the bunny," says Johnson.

"I kept waiting for the bunny to show up — you never know.”

The version of Trump then finishes with the "Lord's Prayer": “Our father who are in heaven, hallowed beep beep, bing bing, bing bing bong. Bing bong bing bing bing, trespass daily bread. And please lead us into temptation… In the name of the father, the son and the Easter Bunny.”

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Oscar's host Jimmy Kimmel hit back at Donald Trump Sunday after the former president poured scorn on the comedian's performance at the Hollywood ceremony.

Trump Truth Socialed his criticism of Kimmel, a frequent critic of the GOP front-runner for the presidential nomination, as the Hollywood extravaganza was broadcast live.

Kimmel responded by reading Trump's critique out, virtually word for word.

"I'm really proud of something, I was wondering if I could share it with you?" He asked the crowd of Hollywood glitterati.

"I just got a review and — has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars?" he quoted.

"His opening was that of a less than average person trying to be something that he is not and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed-up but cheap ABC talent, George Slopanopoulos. Blah, blah, blah, Make America Great Again," Kimmel said.

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"Oh. Okay, now, see if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truth Social? Anyone?" Kimmel asked as the crowd cheered, with the cameras focusing on a laughing Jodie Foster.

"No? Well, thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching, I'm surprised you're still — isn't it past your jail time?"

Along with his attack on Kimmel, Trump also criticized the Oscars as a whole.

"Also, a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years. Disjointed, boring, and very unfair," he wrote.

"Why don’t they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them? Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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HBO comedian John Oliver lined up footage of a West Virginia public meeting at which conservatives read from books they argued should be banned — and ridiculed them for the explicit content that came out of their mouths.

"Look, I admit, I don't remember that scene from The Giving Tree," he said as the reel of clearly uncomfortable citizens read sections out of books they claimed shouldn't be in school libraries. "But, I admit, it's been a while."

"I just want to mention, I have never said the F word ever in my life before just now," said one woman, after Oliver broadcasted her reading an extremely sexual segment of a book on his Sunday night show, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.

The comedian had been highlighting a proposed West Virginia bill that would impose severe penalties on people found guilty of exposing children to "obscene literature in schools and libraries."

"While that hearing was clearly ridiculous, the law itself is serious," he said. "Violating it can carry a felony charge with a penalty of $25,000 and a sentence of up to five years. Many have called it a book ban, although the bill's backers have pushed back on that, with one of the speakers who supported it saying 'we are not banning or burning, we are protecting.'"

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He added, referencing the comments he and his viewers had just listened to, "I tell you what you are definitely not protecting is my ears."

Oliver said, "The debate has featured some spectacular testimony from concerned citizens reading out material that they objected to."

The show then broadcast a montage of public meeting testimony featuring nine conservatives reading extremely explicit, sexual and, at times, obscene sections of books — all with background music of Chopin's Nocturne in E Flat Major.

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A former Republican congressman predicted on New Year’s Day that Donald Trump will never face trial in Jack Smith’s election subversion case — but that the GOP will be scrambling to find a replacement for him as he drops out of the presidential race.

In a long list of predictions for the new year, ex-rep. John LeBoutillier (R-NY) took particular aim at the trial set to start on March 4 in Washington, D.C.

But he predicts that the trial will never start, because Trump will do everything he can to avoid it.

“Trump is doing all he can to delay this trial because it is highly likely he will be convicted on four felony counts. He is — or should be — deathly afraid of this case, for good reasons,” LeBoutillier wrote in the Messenger Monday.

He went on, “Trump will exhaust every appeal and delay, as is his right. But eventually those appeals will reach an end. And then will come perhaps the key moment of the 2024 election — and of Trump’s life: a trial.

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“My prediction: Trump will never walk into that trial. He either will become sick and unable to stand trial, or he will make a plea deal to avoid prison.”

LeBoutillier predicts that, after failing to get immunity from the Supreme Court, Trump will discover that special prosecutor Smith has amassed much more evidence against him than he expected. He will also be frantically worried that the jury pool is not from his base.

But the idea of him having to be present throughout the trial, as a criminal defendant must be, is the reason LeBoutillier thinks Trump will do everything he can to avoid it.

“Can you envision Donald Trump walking into the D.C. Federal Courthouse, sitting at the defense table for six to seven hours a day with his mouth shut — for eight or more weeks — and then being convicted by the jury and sentenced by this judge?” he asked.

He continued, “A plea deal would fit with Trump’s longtime modus operandi. In civil litigation he is all bluster, and then, at the last minute, he settles.

“He will do that in this case, too: Negotiate a deal in which he pleads guilty and withdraws from the campaign in return for a guarantee that he will not be sent to prison.