“It didn’t matter to the Republicans gathered in the convention center ballroom Friday that he’d hurled insults at their wildly popular governor, or that he is facing a cascade of federal charges,” Politico reports.
“When Donald Trump strode on stage here for a major gathering of GOP presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, the entire room of party faithful rose to their feet and roared. In an apparently accidental twist, even the walkout music that played hinted at his situation — ‘One could end up going to prison; one just might be president,’ went the Brooks & Dunn song, bits of which played for every candidate that spoke here.”
“But once again, the former president demonstrated he was still the most dominant force in the room — a hall that had just featured a dozen Republicans also running for the nomination.”
Stephen Collinson: Trump shows in Iowa he still rules the GOP – despite his deepening criminal peril.
