Keep your eye on the ball.

Trump ignored Golf 101 when he took his eye off white supremacists.

A spring awakening found people taking to the streets in 2020 in search of racial justice. The video of the gruesome slow murder of George Floyd sent shockwaves across the nation. Trump’s Justice Department began moving federal prosecutors and F.B.I. agents from investigations into violent white supremacists to focus on cases involving rioters and Antifa.

Trump’s campaign was in trouble. He needed a new energizing theme. And marching across Layfayette Square, Bible in hand, he believed he found one.

Meanwhile, right-wing extremists continued to prepare for the Storm, the day when a Trump-led coup would seize the reins of power and put an end to American democracy. It sounds so far fetched, except that’s exactly what was attempted.

The White House blocked efforts to point out the far-right threat, even suppressing the phrase “domestic terrorism.” Funding was cut for investigations into white supremacists organizations. And Trump hammered Antifa, like radical armies were massing to attack America democracy. Well, as it turned they were. Only it wasn’t from the left, but the enabled and encouraged right.

I don’t need a trial to know Trump was involved in the January 6th Insurrection. He…