@PhilipRucker
When @CarolLeonnig and I asked Trump why he repeatedly told the public things that were not true, he said, “Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? There is a more beautiful word called disinformation.” A more beautiful word.
While you're right, it's about as un-enforceable as you can get. All they need to do is never say they're running. Let the underlings discuss but as long as Trump and his upper leadership don't discuss it openly, how can you prove that they're going to run?
This is beyond criminal, or at least it should be.
If they're going to go after him on taxes, they better find the set of books labeled "Never Show to the IRS".
This is beyond criminal, or at least it should be.
If they're going to go after him on taxes, they better find the set of books labeled "Never Show to the IRS".
Whatabout Obama negotiating his Netflix deal while in the waning months of office?
You are nuts. He is running. He might not announce it until there is a candidate who polls well enough to be a threat (i.e. not DeathSantis) but he will run. He has to. His whole persona is based on being a winner and sooner or later his ego won't let him accept that he wasn't able to beat Biden. The only thing stopping him now probably is that he has fallen for the Qucumber BS that he will be reinstated.
The nomination is his the second he announces. CPAC showed the GOP is his party. All decisions go through him. He won't allow for the coronation of anyone else and the GOP can't win unless he anoints the nominee. It is a suicide pact...
The nomination is his the second he announces. CPAC showed the GOP is his party. All decisions go through him. He won't allow for the coronation of anyone else and the GOP can't win unless he anoints the nominee. It is a suicide pact...
They’ve all fallen on the sword so far. I don’t think any have the spine to do it.Is it too much to hope someone like DeSantis tries to stab him in the back and go without him, and then he runs as 3rd party and splits the right? I mean I know GQP/CPAC is full of suckups to him, but they also seem like the opportunistic types to try to take it all for themselves if any one of them gets enough support, and DeSantis feels like the most likely there.
Well, it's not too much to hope that RDS tries to go without him (his ego knows no bounds), but RDS would fail - spectacularly. There are only a handful of people in the US who have the power to make RDS the GOP nominee. The list starts with Donald Trump and ends with the judges he should be facing in the next year or two.Is it too much to hope someone like DeSantis tries to stab him in the back and go without him, and then he runs as 3rd party and splits the right? I mean I know GQP/CPAC is full of suckups to him, but they also seem like the opportunistic types to try to take it all for themselves if any one of them gets enough support, and DeSantis feels like the most likely there.
I mostly agree, but I think he won't announce until he has to. That may come if someone like Desantis gets some ground swell support, but Trump simply wants the attention on him and the best way to maintain that is to let the question linger.
Oh he is going to have rallies from now til the day he dies...
Is it too much to hope someone like DeSantis tries to stab him in the back and go without him, and then he runs as 3rd party and splits the right? I mean I know GQP/CPAC is full of suckups to him, but they also seem like the opportunistic types to try to take it all for themselves if any one of them gets enough support, and DeSantis feels like the most likely there.
Well, it's not too much to hope that RDS tries to go without him (his ego knows no bounds), but RDS would fail - spectacularly. There are only a handful of people in the US who have the power to make RDS the GOP nominee. The list starts with Donald Trump and ends with the judges he should be facing in the next year or two.
DeathSantis is a godd@mned moron, but there's no way that even he is dumb enough to challenge Trump for the nomination.
Cruz might do it, but only because I think he's a masochist who quietly gets off on constantly being owned by both the right and the left. Obnoxious though he is, I'm not here to kink-shame.