Peggy Noonan: 'Breathtaking' Trump indictment will finally convince some fans to ditch him

Former Reagan speechwriter and conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has for years watched supporters of former President Donald Trump stick with him through countless scandals -- but she thinks this time may be different.

In her latest column, Noonan writes that the "breathtaking" Trump behavior exposed by special counsel Jack Smith's indictment is a step beyond bragging about grabbing women by their genitals, ripping off Trump University students, trying to shake down Ukraine for dirt on political opponents, or inciting a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building.

In particular, she says that Trump supporters with a reverence for national security could be particularly turned off by the indictment's revelations.

"They don’t care if he’s an abusive predator of women -- again, extraneous, old news," she writes. "But endangering our national security, including our nuclear secrets? That is another matter."

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She then outlines the sheer reckless selfishness of Trump's actions in which he thought that nuclear secrets were his personal property to show off to Mar-a-Lago guests as he wished.

Any Trump supporter with a modicum of honesty, Noonan says, would have to think about finding another candidate to support in the 2024 election.

"Mar-a-Lago isn’t secure," she concludes. "Those documents didn’t belong there. It is a danger to our country that they were. This story will do Mr. Trump no good with his supporters. It will hurt him—maybe not a lot but some, maybe not soon but in time. I mean the quiet Trump supporters, not big mouths and people making money on the game, but honest people."