IF the Ukraine-Russia war does not escalate into a worldwide nuclear holocaust, the Israel-Hamas war does does not expand into the entirety of the the Arabian peninsula, China does not invade Taiwan, there is no new pandemic and the effects of global warming do not suddenly become uncontrollable, Donald Trump will dominate the headlines in 2024.  Sure, there will be other issues, like the potential danger of AI, metastability of cryptocurrency, actions of the Supreme Court and continuing romance of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Then today, two more peccadillos, which for almost anyone else would be career destroying and worse: Apparently, when he was president, he took nearly $8 million from a bunch of foreign countries, outlined in the  Raskin House report .  China gave him $5.5 million to gain influence.  So did those others. Newly released Jefferey Epstein documents again showed Donald Trump, who, like many other prominent people, like Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, were involved