Donald Trump moved from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster in early June.

He does it every summer to escape the Florida heat.

So far, however, the former president has not been able to concentrate on playing golf at his New Jersey estate.

He was visibly upset when the investigative committee dealt with the storming of the Capitol.

Majid Sattar

Political correspondent for North America based in Washington.

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There is the incriminating testimony of Republican witnesses on the panel that damages him.

There are also first signs that the Justice Department in Washington is preparing investigations.

And now a separate investigation is also moving forward in Georgia.

A jury has summoned close Trump associates.

All of this makes him nervous.

He began by publicly criticizing the Republican leadership's decision to boycott the parliamentary inquiry.

That was "a stupid decision" because you can't influence the work, he lamented days ago.

The criticism was aimed at Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader in the House of Representatives.

In the summer of last year, he decided to withdraw his fellow faction nominees for the panel after Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic "speaker" of the House of Representatives, had turned down two of them.

Reason: You are involved in the crime.

A subpoena for Lindsey Graham too

Trump and McCarthy have a complicated relationship.

The faction leader needs the support of Trumpists in his ranks if he is to achieve his goal of replacing Pelosi in the third highest office after winning the congressional elections in the fall.

The former president uses this to drive the faction in front of him.

From January 2023 onwards, Congress should not only paralyze the Biden administration for him, but also fuel the agenda of his election campaign.

So far, Trump had planned to decide whether to run again after the fall election.

Since, in the light of the parliamentary processing of January 6, 2021, Republicans are also discussing the question of whether Trump is not too badly damaged, he is apparently considering fleeing to the front.

There were increasing reports that the former president had confided in employees that he was toying with the idea of ​​announcing his candidacy as early as the summer.

While he hasn't made a final decision yet, he's so upset with the way the investigation is going that he wants to change the focus of the reporting.

Many Republicans don't think much of the idea.

During the election campaign, you want to talk about inflation and the looming recession, but not about Trump.

An early candidacy could turn the “midterms” back into a referendum on Trump.

That would only help the Democrats, they fear.

Bringing the decision forward would also be a challenge for those Republicans who are considering their own candidacy but have so far planned to officially enter the race towards the end of the year at the earliest.

Lindsey Graham, long Trump's most important ally in the Senate, spoke out in favor of bringing the decision forward.

Of course, it's Trump's business, said the South Carolina senator.

However, he believes that an early candidacy would mean that Trump's policies would be compared to Biden's.

And that is the key to success.

Graham had said on January 6, 2021, after the siege of Congress by a violent mob of Trump supporters ended, in view of further attempts to cast doubt on Joe Biden's election victory, he was no longer to be counted on.

He tried to be helpful.

The four years with Trump were a "riding from hell".

Graham is now one of those summoned by the Georgia grand jury, along with former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The senator - like the then president - called Brad Raffensperger, the state's Secretary of the Interior, after the 2020 presidential election.

In Atlanta, he is accused of having urged the latter to examine the option of achieving a more favorable result for Trump by counting the postal votes again.

So far, the jury is only gathering information.

It is not yet an investigation.