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  I understand where you’re coming from. And if by “held to account” you mean charged with crimes, there’s no guarantee that that will happen. And I certainly wouldn’t take anything on faith. However, I do believe that Trump will be charged this year in at least one of the jurisdictions investigating him – that is, Georgia, New York, and the two DOJ probes into Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago.  
  As far why we haven’t seen charges out of Georgia yet, that’s because there’s been a special grand jury sitting there that couldn’t bring charges; and now that that special grand jury is over, Fulton County DA Fani Willis has said recently that decisions are “imminent,” meaning she could be bringing charges through a regular grand jury that can do so. Again, that’s not a guarantee that Trump will be charged there (saying nothing of what the result would be if he is), but it helps a bit to explain the timeline of why hasn’t been charged there yet if he will be.  
  In New York, we also have recent reporting that the Manhattan DA’s office has a grand jury looking into Trump now. So, again, like Georgia, that doesn’t guarantee that Trump will be charged there, either, but it helps to explain why he hasn’t been charged there yet if he will be.  
  DOJ is a bit of a different story, because the investigations there haven’t been playing out in public like some of the state action. Yet I don’t think that that’s an indication that charges won’t come via special counsel Jack Smith’s probe, but rather that the department prefers to operate quietly and then only announce a decision when it’s ready. It wouldn’t surprise me if charges come from the DOJ this year in addition to both Georgia and New York.  
  None of that really answers the question of why anyone should have faith regarding what will happen to Trump, but hopefully it provides a bit of perspective as to what might happen.
context: Why should any of us have any faith that Trump will be held to account given the inaction last several years?