David French

All of this stuff is very incremental.

None of it is damn bursting kind of stuff, but it's all incrementally terrible for Donald Trump.

And very critically, it's also incrementally terrible for the MAGA movement going forward.

I don't see that there is anything but incremental losses for Trump.

I think if you look back at everything that you walked through from the Access Hollywood tapes to the E. Jean Carroll situation to the Epstein revelation so far to the Ghislaine Maxwell transfer, top

pile that on top of January 6th, pile that on top of all of the other Trump stuff.

And you really realize that

Look, everyone who's sitting there saying, what is the thing?

There is no single thing.

It's a number of things.

But one thing that seems very clear to me right now is what we have is a one-way ratchet that is moving against Trump in the arena of public support, that everything right now is causing Trump to shed support.

And then what's more dramatic though, Michelle,

is what's happening the layer below Trump.

That's where you're actually seeing dramatic activity.

You're seeing dramatic conflict within the Republican world, that one layer below Trump.

Trump is still largely untouchable, but any layer below Trump and people are willing to rip each other to shreds.

And that is the dynamic that is taking place.

MAGA below Trump is cracking apart.

And so that, to me, is what's the actual story of what's happening right now.

I think that that's right.