The year 2024 will be remembered for three marvels: Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump. He is Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Even Harry Houdini would be jealous.

The facts speak for themselves: President-elect Trump outfoxed and steamrollered four felony prosecutions in New York City; Georgia; Washington, D.C.; and Florida. The New York state prosecution culminated in 34 felony convictions, but the sentencing has idled in the horse latitudes and will die on a political vine.

Trump himself threw a spanner in the works by engineering the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 pioneering decision in Trump v. United States (June 1, 2024), bestowing constitutional criminal justice immunity on the former president for presidential acts.

Rumors of Trump’s political death at the beginning of 2024 were vastly exaggerated. He effortlessly captured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination with no more than warmup exercises. Former President Bill Clinton earned the nickname “the Comeback Kid,” but President-elect Trump has earned a salute as the super-phoenix of politics.

President-elect Donald Trump has been likened to legendary escape artist Harry Houdini, seen here on Jan. 1, 1898. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty........

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