Donald Trump is sure to come after me for a recent erroneous prediction

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Now that Donald Trump is suing the Des Moines Register for publishing a presidential poll that turned out to be wrong, I know I'm next.

Thus, I plan to immediately seek a presidential pardon from Joe Biden before he leaves office on January 20.

Given that during my 55 years as a journalist I've published over 14,000 columns and reported on an equal number of sporting events from college football to snowmobile racing to Little League championship games, I may have made a mistake or two along the way.

Then again, I've never had to print a retraction or a correction, which may mean I will escape Donald Trump's ceaseless wrath, but why take a chance?

And here I thought that even bald-faced lies are protected by the First Amendment.

Why just the other day our past and future president claimed he "won the youth vote by 34 points" - like 67 to 33 - when he actually lost it by a 52 to 48 margin.

Can someone sue him for an outright lie?

Three years ago he claimed bitcoin "just seems like a scam," yet the other day a single bitcoin soared past $100,000.

Can he be sued for putting out clearly false information that dramatically affected many people's lives?

He also noted that he "heard" the rate of autism 30 years ago was 1 in 200,000 and now it's 1 in 100, so it's either that darn polio vaccine, the ban on fracking or maybe even the Iowa presidential poll that's causing such a spike.

Of course, Joe Biden lied about never pardoning his son, but that's another story for another day.

Today, we're talking about my neck.

What has really set off alarm bells in our humble household is my weekly habit in the fall for the last 55 years of publicly predicting the outcome of college football games from all over the country.

And what does this have to do with Donald Trump?

Plenty.