Try not to die  laughing or admit that I told you so:

The sheriff of Jacksonville, Fla., said he can’t provide security for the Republican National Convention because of a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough law enforcement officers.

“As we’re talking today, we are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable that we’re going to keep that event and the community safe,” Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams told POLITICO.

“It’s not my event to plan, but I can just tell you that what has been proposed in my opinion is not achievable right now … from a law enforcement standpoint, from a security standpoint.”

The controversy deals one of the biggest potential blows to Trump’s decision to hold an in-person nominating convention during a pandemic.

Back on June 29, I speculated that the GOP “convention” in Jacksonville was shaping up to be such a big humiliation for Trump that he might quit the race altogether just to avoid it. Perhaps the sheriff’s decision will give him the face-saving excuse to cancel the thing and remain in the campaign.

For starters, the guy is supposed to provide security for some of the most important people in the country and he can’t get Florida police departments to loan him the help he’d need. And then there’s the fact that Team Trump won’t give him any plans and put conditions on contracts that make them impossible to fill.

“We do need law enforcement officers and we’ve gotten commitments, but not to the level that we thought we needed. And a lot of that is people having virus concerns from their communities, and I understand that,” Williams said.

“But there’s a lot of things that need to happen: an event schedule nailed down, and being able to sign contracts and spend money so that we can prepare for this event. And none of that has happened yet,” he said. “So here we are inside of 40 days, and I haven’t really pulled the trigger on anything RNC-related when it comes to finances or contracts and so, you know, only related to security, mind you, nothing, nothing related to any of this.”

Not having enough time to pull this off is exactly what I expected to happen as soon as Trump impulsively moved the “convention” from Charlotte to Jacksonville. The reason he did it was obliterated when the COVID-19 outbreak overwhelmed Florida and it impossible to hold a massive indoor rally with no masks and no social distancing.

Now he can’t even tell the sheriff what venue they’re going to use.

So, it will take some serious lifting to get any kind of event organized and approved, and the sheriff is saying Trump should just forget about it because it can’t be done. This makes the president look like a colossal jackass but it’s still better than having a convention as lightly attended as his rally in Tulsa.

Here, for once, Trump is paying for his idiocy and incompetence instead of the rest of us.