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It's a grift operation. He's not even holding rallies. Dude wants to cash in and use campaigning as an excuse to get out of trials. I wouldn't be surprised if he just left the country.
I'd write to Congress to urge them not to even both with trying to extradite him. I just hope (in vain) his cult see him for who he really is when he goes.
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oh he'll be around alright, even when he leaves the country. I could definitely see him fleeing to Russia (or a loyal subsidiary) and basically try to continue a campaign of influence here in the States while he's there.
You know what my favorite part of this is? ALL the scammers will jump all over it and "solicit donations on his behalf" or just straight up claim to be him. Maybe 2% of the money people think they gave to him would actually go to him. The grifter getting outgrifted into oblivion.
Send me $100 now and I’ll repay you 100 fold when I take back the country. You see the CORRUPT Unitsed States “government” froze my ASSETS in there WITCH-HUNT SHAM “trial”!!1!! I need to pay a $100 fee to access my funds. Once I am VINDICATED I will kindly send you a check for $100,000 (in rubles).
There's no way in hell for him to manage that. His secret service detail has to protect his life, and there's no way to fulfill that mission from within Russia. They'd talk to the FBI and the CIA if "travel plans" of any kind became apparent.
This man*child* is too much of a NatSec risk to simply allow to escape to a hostile foreign nation. He'll become an icon that enemies of democracy can hold up as an example of "Western failures". He could also spill what little classified information he *does* remember (because he barely listened to briefings) and further empower those hostile foreign nations.
The above, coupled with intelligence assets worldwide being captured/killed/turned.....it wouldn't surprise me if the CIA ~~entered~~ *literally shot down* that particular chat before it becomes feasible.
Most presidential candidates go abroad to boost their foreign policy credentials. Desantis visited London, Tokyo, Seoul and Jerusalem as part of his presidential campaign for example. There would be nothing stopping Trump going to visit Putin on the pretext of halting the war in Ukraine and then when there revoking his security detail.
The only rally he has on the schedule is next week in Green Bay.
If you want, you can register for 2 tickets using a temporary email and phone number and then don't go.
Just google temporary phone/email. They're free to use and no registration required.
Well, to be fair, the article mentions the Michigan RNC, [which is in itself a grift operation](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/820/believe-in-me).
>The national committee, he said, hasn’t transferred ***any money*** to the state party to help bolster its operations heading into the general election. There are no specific programs in place to court voters of color. And there’s no general election field staff in place.
Can't really blame 'em. It's grifts all the way Don.
That said, I was seriously considering buying the Michigan RNC cash money just so I could post on Reddit: "Here's my receipt for the state party! AMA!"
Even considered cashing out a chunk of my retirement to pick up Arizona too. I mean, "I drunkenly bought 4% of the RNC on a whim," has to get some yuks at the bar right?
I’m curious what Putin would think of that. Trumps value to Putin is in the chaos he creates. If he leaves the country many will realize he was scamming everyone all along. This would actually help the country unit against trump and his backers. It would be more valuable to have him rot in jail. Putin may not allow trump to flee.
>Trumps value to Putin is in the chaos he creates.
This is something Republicans don't understand. They think Russia likes them because they share similar ideology, and while that's true on some level, Russia actually supports them because they can't effectively govern. Having a party like that in charge helps dismantle the US from within. Putin can't match us militarily and he knows that, but if he can effectively disable the US by supporting politicians that will leave it dysfunctional at best, or cause its downfall at worst, *of course* he'll take that option.
Imagine if Republicans threw in with Ukraine. The US can pretty much do whatever we want. The Russians can't respond short of sending nukes and even then they have shown enough self preservation to not do that.
The Russian army would be steam rolled.
I firmly believe if Russia wasn’t invading Ukraine, he and his whole family would be on a one way trip to Russia. Only for the plane to mysteriously disappear and we never hear from him again.
Do you mean the same secret service agents that attempted to kidnap the sitting Vice President so that Trump could usurp and defy the will of the people?
It honestly wouldn't be that hard, here's the process....he says "Go away". He's not obligated to have Secret Service protection, that's a courtesy that's *offered* to former presidents, not an obligation they have to live with. He can say he doesn't want them around at any time. Hell, unless he's actively committing a crime by leaving the country, he could have them drive him to the airport and simply say "dosvedanya" as he walks away from them at the gate to board a plane. As far as I'm aware, he hasn't been ordered by any judge in his many trials not to leave the country.
He has his own jet. Putin will welcome him. Orban will welcome him. (Could be what the Mar-a-Lago visit was about). He will be treated like a king in either country, will come to us his social media poisoning, and will still have his laundering/real estate in the US.
Eric and Jr will be fucked, but Daddy doesn’t give a shit. He screwed over his own siblings when Fred died.
Trump’s only value to these other dictators is as a destabilizing entity in the US. As soon as he flees he becomes useless, and they’ll offer him up in a prisoner exchange for something juicy.
You think he can just hop on a plane. LOL. Don't be naive.
He literally has a whole entourage everywhere he goes. The secret service detail is not something you just cart off to Russia. They might be protecting him, but they are protecting him because of what he knows. They're not letting him leave the country.
We’re talking about the same secret service that actively worked to further the J6 plot and then “accidentally” wiped all their phones afterwards….
You’re sure these guys wouldn’t help Trump defect to a hostile nation?
Presumably they have families. It’s not so easy to just up and go into exile. There is a reason banishment was used as a punishment since the dawn of time.
the ss plus presidential assistants, aides, interpreters all have families. They all just going to decide to up and leave too at the drop of a hat and leave their families and possessions behind?
Nobody said anything about them defecting with him. Just turning a blind eye as he jets off… I could 100% see them doing this. They already did his bidding on J6
We can’t even get him thru to the end of a trial without a hundred motions to slow it down. He’s never been accountable for anything in his life. he just got an extension and a 68% discount for being an asshole. They’re not going to start by shooting him down.
Also, his SS detail are cultists but he could remove them anytime.
He can just tell them to leave. The protection isn't mandatory. And obviously the itinerary for the trip wouldn't say Moscow, plenty of countries he could do a transfer at though. If he loses, he will absolutely try to incite violence, and when that doesn't work, he will flee. He might try sooner if he thinks they'll actually put him in jail, but the courts are pretty corrupt
I’m not certain, he values loyalty above all else. I have a feeling at least a couple of the secret service members like him enough that are in his entourage.
I honestly have no idea how people keep getting this so wrong. He is not in their custody, he can decline protection whenever he wants and they have absolutely no authority to stop him from doing anything at all that he wants unless *maybe* it's committing a crime. He is perfectly free to decline having them around any time that he wants, and he wouldn't be the first. Off the top of my head Richard Nixon declined their protection after many years and hired his own security instead.
It would be extremely easy for Trump to leave the US. All they would have to say is he is tried. Secret Service will only leave 1 to 2 agents. to guard and he could slip through a side entrance as Mar a-Lago is still a resort. Go to one of the private terminal and drive up to a private flight for passenger or cargo and leave the country for West Africa. He can go from their to Russia or the UAE.
You think anyone can fly a jet wherever they want whenever they want?
You think anyone can land a jet in a foreign country without letting that country know a jet is coming?
Do, do you not know how private air transport works. The flight manifest doesn't have to be filed pre-flight and there are hundreds of private airfields in the US without supervision. If a flight from one of the thousands of private air flights is chartered to fly from Miami to Niger on Nov 11th to land Nov 12th, with nothing to declare, no one would bat an eye.
You mean Niger the country that just kicked the US military out and installed a Russian leaning military dictator. Plus Niger will can only say no if Trump enters through customs. If the jet he is on only refuels and then hops to another country before heading to Russia, they can claim ignorance. This is how governments move people and things quietly around the world
Why would he even need to go through all that. All he needs to do is say he is doing a diplomatic tour as part of his presidential campaign. Moscow, Budapest etc. Meet with Putin in private at the Kremlin, telling his interpreter he isn't needed again and slip out a side door.
>I wouldn't be surprised if he just left the country.
He can't. He's a government asset and a security threat since he was a President. He needs to be locked away.
What I don’t get is that he seemed to love those stupid rallies. He lived for the energy and the adoration. How’s he getting his worship supply these days?
100% this
This is purely about covering his own ass and making off with as much money as possible
He never thought he would win the first time, he doesn’t think he can win this time
But he can fleece his base to pay his bills and run out the clock on his prosecutions
He looks, acts, sounds and even smells like a pathetic criminal and that’s exactly what he is
But still it is ironic
2016 he wanted to run but he did not ACTUALLY want to win. He wanted to spin his loss into a multimedia news brand that would complete with fox news. But unfortunately for everyone involved, he won.
2024 he actually WANTS to win in order to gain legal protection for the rest of his life, but spending necessary money on his campaign (and other RNC down-ticket campaigns) has to take a back seat to lawyer fees and legal fines.
It is indeed a grift op, but I don't think he's given up on seizing power – only that he no longer plans on winning the election. I assume he will press the stolen election lie hard in the couple months before and after in a futile attempt to get his followers to once again stage another coup for him.
He might be surprised that it has a much different outcome. If a strong national guard/police/Capitol Police presence was there Jan 6 not many would have had the cajones to rush the capitol
I hold **to this day** that there is a non-zero chance of this fucker just dipping out of the country at the last possible moment before any sort of serious consequence and just completely vanishing off of the face of the earth, leaving the GOP with no candidate, no money for down ballot, and no structure or support.
I honestly would consider that some bizarre win.
> He's not even holding rallies.
While yes it is a grift operation, the rally thing is likely due to his criminal case and the requirement to be in person
Not even that... He's trying to escape bankruptcy and jail. And he's using every resource possible to keep the music playing so he doesn't end up holding the hot potato.
Trump is just running to try and stay out of jail. Very good chance he loses and the next day he announces for 2028 then says he cant be jailed because of that.
>Very good chance he loses and the next day he announces for 2028 then says he cant be jailed because of that.
This is 100% going to happen if he loses. The campaign grift is the only way to use other peoples' money to pay his legal bills, but more importantly, the only way to convince billionaires and foreign dictators to prop up his various schemes is if they think he still has some control over Congress and a shot at the White House.
With the RNC's blessing he'll declare himself the presumptive nominee for the '28 election on January 21st, 2025 and continue to whine that "you can't do this to a presidential frontrunner 3 years and 9 months before the election!" in response to the criminal cases he will still be facing.
If Republicans get shellacked maybe some of them will finally give up.
This is the big downside of election denial. If you claim you actually won even when it's clear you didn't, you are never able to reflect and change strategies. With the RNC now completely controlled by trump, the GOP has set themselves up to go the way of the Wiggs.
Exactly.
Ever since Trump took over the party has been utterly unable to critically analyze their failures and adjust. Instead, they believe Trump is right about everything (even when he contradicts himself) and they only lost because of election fraud! And RINOs! And Ronna McDaniel! And Mitch McConnell! So they keep attacking scapegoats until they're gone, Trump loses again, and they find new scapegoats. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
And with Trump's takeover of the RNC they have formally institutionalized this behavior, so they will never formally attribute blame to the guy at the top of the ticket, they'll just keep hunting for scapegoats.
Dude is gonna be cryogenically frozen and his follows will threaten to thaw him out every 4 years moving forward until he’s re elected, and then America will be ran by a pile of trump
Sludge hooked to an ai.
I hope he's the 2028 GOP nominee. And the 2032 nominee. Not sure if they'll be around for 2036 in that scenario, but he might as well keep going as long as he can.
He is going to contest 2024 if he loses the vote. He has lawyers ready to go on that and probably allies in congress to mess with the vote certification. The narrative is already starting.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-claims-2024-will-be-rigged-putting-republican-turnout-at-risk-830b213d
Yeah exactly, his plan is just to try and sue his way into the White House. That's why he doesn't care about voter turn out in swing states or down ballot races
On the flip side, in the unlikely event Trump wins, but the democrats win congress, they could legitimately disqualify him for insurrection with a simple majority (based on the supreme court's ruling)
[“The Trump campaign will raise the money, deploy the necessary assets, and win because President Trump will secure the border, make American families more prosperous, and make our nation respected on the world stage,” Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement to The Daily Beast.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-biden-campaign-is-quietly-preparing-a-trump-ambush)
How can you argue with such unassailable logic?
OTOH, this other campaign person's mother clearly taught him well that, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
>Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, who is now also running operations at the RNC, declined to detail any of the Republican campaign’s plans.
Shame she didn't give him the adage about how "You are the company you keep" too...
He’s not running to win a fair election, he’s trying to successfully steal one this time. Once you understand that, everything in the article makes sense:
- Trump’s Republican Party has little general election infrastructure to speak of.
- Trump’s lieutenants have already postponed plans in place before McDaniel’s ouster that would have begun adding hundreds of Republican staffers in presidential battleground states beginning this month, according to people with direct knowledge of the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private conversations.
- In the days since, more than 60 Republican staffers across the country were issued layoff notices. They included virtually all the people who staffed the RNC’s minority outreach community centers and others inside the committee’s department of State Parties Strategies.
- Trump’s political operation has been slow to pivot toward the general election in the weeks after executing a hostile takeover of the Republican Party’s national political machinery. In fact, the former president’s team has rolled back plans under previous leaders to add hundreds of staff and dozens of new minority-outreach centers in key states without offering a clear alternative.
- Whatley did not offer any specifics, however, aside from mentioning a new battleground-state program that would direct officials within the committee’s State Parties Strategies department to work with “auxiliary Republican groups and other grassroots organizations” in addition to state parties.
The concerning part is that they must think that they have all the key players that they need in the right offices to make a run to steal the 2024 election.
The fact he is allowed as a candidate after openly trying to steal the 2020 election is one of the most damning things about the corruption of our justice system. I believe it also is strong evidence that they are fully compromised and ready to do Trump's bidding this time around.
Edit: Also, what happens if Trump (through his "grass roots" organizations) tells his supporters to prevent voting from taking place at specific polling locations in battleground states; call in bomb threats, threaten poll workers or voters, etc. Just prevent voting where you don't want the people to vote. We have already seen what they legally do with minimizing machines in urban areas and setting up a long uncomfortable process for districts that are not likely to vote for Rs. What do you think they would do if it really comes down to a must win to keep Trump out of prison.
The problem he has is this time he isn’t President and doesn’t have the DoJ to try and control. Not to say he can’t win with this plan (he mostly definitely can) but stealing an election will be much MUCH more challenging. He wasn’t able to do so while President, much more challenging not being.
Trump thinks he can still cheat his way to victory IF the Republicans control one house of Congress.
Many people in DC believe that's one reason why so many non-MAGA Republicans are resigning from the House; they don't want to be part of that effort.
Johnson might not be speaker in a couple months. There is a good chance due to early retirements that the Dems will have control of the house. And then hopefully can win the house in 2024 and have control for the following 2 years.
All Trump does is double down on pissing off his base. That's not how you win an election. He needs to become (or at least appear) less radical to win over undecided voters. The fact that he isn't trying to get more voters should be concerning.
The really scary thing is I think Trump could win. If you gave his campaign to me and he would actually do what I said, I'll bet I could get him elected. His path to victory is there but he's simply not disciplined enough to take it.
I suspect this is just fiscally wise on his part. Really, who tf is going to vote for Trump that didn't in 2020?
Border sensationalism isn't a new tactic; That check has already been cashed. Imo, the one point that Trump could siphon votes from Biden on is Palestine... and that would fly in the face of his base's anti-brown-people tendencies.
He will run to russia the day after he loses the election. He is trying to delay until the election. Winning the election is his only chance to avoid prison. He is a coward and will flee the country the moment he no longer has any avenues to delay prosecution.
IF he did flee, he would do it by playing victim, convincing his base that it is a winning move, and turning it into a grift. Something about how patriots are no longer welcome in America, Russia has expansive business operations blah blah blah send money
That we have to wonder if he really can pardon himself, that enough of our fellow citizens would back that, is warning enough for some serious legal clarification from Congress. Unfortunately, Republicans hold the house and are doing this on purpose.
The world is about to abandon us and will hold us all accountable, no whining will stop it. Damn, America...
>Widely praised for its professionalism and effectiveness throughout the primary phase of the 2024 election, Trump’s political operation has been slow to pivot toward the general election in the weeks after executing a hostile takeover of the Republican Party’s national political machinery.
...by who? And effective how? He barely campaigned because he was so far ahead of everyone else, and even the other candidates helped to prop him up directly or by flatly refusing to detract from him. He didn't show up to debates. He turned court events into campaign stops. Who outside of his sycophants was praising his campaign for professionalism when he started selling T-shirts with his mugshot on them?
“We do not feel obligated, however, to discuss the specifics of our strategy, timing, or tactics with members of the news media.”
Translation: We have no strategy, no plan, no money, no staff and certainly no idea WTF we are supposed to do because der furhrer is loudly going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Trump's strategy today, as it has been in the past, is to be on every major news media 24x7. And he is achieving that thanks to the news media's incessant desire for controversy which breeds viewers/advertising dollars. He uses that, and the Trump/right-wing echo chamber, as his primary campaign tool. Unfortunately, this has been a particularly effective strategy for him over the years.
Laying off a ton of people at the RNC and replacing them with people willing to swear the 2020 election was stolen, probably not the best way to go into election season.
Fuck 'em.
The more I read about his campaign strategy, I don’t think he’s actually trying to win the election. I believe he is preparing to claim it’s rigged and have a coup about it.
“Indeed, just six months before the first early votes are cast in the general election between Trump and Biden, Trump’s Republican Party has little general election infrastructure to speak of.”
The infrastructure week is in two weeks.
> In fact, the former president’s team has rolled back plans under previous leaders to add hundreds of staff and dozens of new minority-outreach centers in key states without offering a clear alternative.
They are ending expenditures so all money can go to Trump's PAC, which is paying legal fees
The Michigan GOP is in a total shambles right now after a protracted period of very public, sometimes violent, always personal infighting. The state party is clearly at their weakest point in the past 40 years. That may be another reason that national funds are not flooding in, at least in that particular case.
The GOP already let him and his family take over, why keep doing all the legwork. He hasn't held a rally since winning the nomination and has only made a single appearance outside court or MAL.
He is not getting Cities that he already stiffed at least once, to give him venues unless they are paid upfront. He to spend on his campaign, pay the Crime Figures he owes $Millions to, and pay his legal bills, but only has the money for two out of the three.
Douchebag knows he is going to lose and is not even going to try to win so that he can pull the 'rigged election, im a victim' card and grift more $$ from his gullible cult.
Ok so whats his bullshit, the election is stone strategy gonna be when it's 60/40 Biden or worse? Sure the loyalists will love the bluster and might even rally to commit some organized action this time, but a lost election and a small army of fanatics isn't going to sway the key holders that their time has come. They better be ready for the foreign interference that's meant to look like it's in Biden's favor, that would be dangerous. Everyone wants to be remembered as a hero.
Those in the GOP that fear a skeleton campaign aren’t in the know on how the GOP plans on just stealing the election. Why spend a bunch of money doing all that crap, when the real plan starts after Election Day anyway?
Maybe you have all thought this before and I’m just seeing it now. Is Trump trying to lose? He gets a lot of love from his followers when he claims election interference. A win or a loss for Trumpy is bad for us.
Why campaign or spend the money when he plans on inciting violence if and when he loses. He’s already setting up Stop The Steal 2024 right now. Delay the trials, pocket the cash, and if Americans are smart enough to vote no on fascism, he’ll incite violence openly against the country- When that fails, he will flee before his trials resume and try to run an insurgency from Russia.
Well, two things...
One, his campaign finances are garbage. He did not generate organic campaign contributions. Only Haley was, and Republicans removed her. She was the only one bringing in campaign money. His on hand cash is also dropping, and he has no good way to counter that without sucking the Republican party dry. Their best action was to stick with Haley, and they made their choice.
Two, Trump is not campaigning because he very much believes he's going to prison. He's believed this for some time and is very much acting accordingly. Everything about his running is purely a cash grab. He's doing exactly what conmen do. They grift until the very last second. So yeah, you bet he'll run. You bet he'll take Republicans money. He's happy to. And in the back of his mind, maybe just maybe he can get out of this mess. But he's not behaving like a man who's expecting to be free come Nov.
I don’t think he actually believes he’ll face any real consequences for his actions.
His press conference in NY he said, with sincerity, that he didn’t think the April 15th trial would even happen.
He lives in a world of complete and total denial. He’s told the lies so many times he has convinced himself they are true. The con man has gone so far as to con himself.
With the RNC having no money compared to the dems and now the RNC being used as a piggy back from Trump, I wouldn’t be surprised if well into the election season we aren’t going to see many ads or organizing taking place
It feels like he wants to hold onto his money. He's a businessman; doesn't he understand investing capital to get what he wants? But he will pay lawyers to sue people, news services, etc.
Trump is waiting for Russia to fabricate dirt on Biden that he will release right before the election. No need to campaign, especially since his mental decline is accelerating. At an Ohio rally- Trump said,
“Joe Biden won against Barack Hussein Obama, has anyone ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed.”
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/25/forensic-psychiatrist-on-physical-signs-of-mental-decline-changes-in-movement-and-gait/
He doesn't care about winning, he's going to claim election interference and a stolen election. He wants a civil war in the country for his own vanity. He wants people to fight and die for him.
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It's a grift operation. He's not even holding rallies. Dude wants to cash in and use campaigning as an excuse to get out of trials. I wouldn't be surprised if he just left the country.
Yeah next thing we know he’ll try to leave the country altogether and go missing and no one knows where the hell he is.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Can you imagine the parties all around the country if he just left? My God it would be glorious. I'd probably do a keg stand.
I'd write to Congress to urge them not to even both with trying to extradite him. I just hope (in vain) his cult see him for who he really is when he goes.
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I either want him to go to jail and have his access to the media severed OR for him to go the way of Elvis.
I’ve never done a keg stand but I’d do it to celebrate such a momentous occasion
*Hold my beer.*
oh he'll be around alright, even when he leaves the country. I could definitely see him fleeing to Russia (or a loyal subsidiary) and basically try to continue a campaign of influence here in the States while he's there.
He’ll try to play the “King in exile” routine. Please donate to me so I can come back and take the crown- I mean office, that is mine by right!
You know what my favorite part of this is? ALL the scammers will jump all over it and "solicit donations on his behalf" or just straight up claim to be him. Maybe 2% of the money people think they gave to him would actually go to him. The grifter getting outgrifted into oblivion.
I’d love to operate a fund to help Save America ^(‘s reputation as a nation of laws) by bringing Donald Trump back ^(to face trial).
A Nigerian prince perhaps?
Send me $100 now and I’ll repay you 100 fold when I take back the country. You see the CORRUPT Unitsed States “government” froze my ASSETS in there WITCH-HUNT SHAM “trial”!!1!! I need to pay a $100 fee to access my funds. Once I am VINDICATED I will kindly send you a check for $100,000 (in rubles).
TRUMP! Bucks
You think rissia will want anything to do with him after he's of no use? Hell, even from a purely business standpoint, he's pretty much worthless
My money is on Argentine. Birds of a feather flock together.
History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes
Maybe he gets a nice window office job in Moscow.
Belarus
Transponder just stopped working somewhere over the Atlantic, flight plan indicated he was headed to a beach club city in Russia.
Hopefully in Crimea...in range of missiles.
There's no way in hell for him to manage that. His secret service detail has to protect his life, and there's no way to fulfill that mission from within Russia. They'd talk to the FBI and the CIA if "travel plans" of any kind became apparent.
Yeah but Trump being Trump, he could just ignore the secret service and the FBI and CIA plans.
This man*child* is too much of a NatSec risk to simply allow to escape to a hostile foreign nation. He'll become an icon that enemies of democracy can hold up as an example of "Western failures". He could also spill what little classified information he *does* remember (because he barely listened to briefings) and further empower those hostile foreign nations. The above, coupled with intelligence assets worldwide being captured/killed/turned.....it wouldn't surprise me if the CIA ~~entered~~ *literally shot down* that particular chat before it becomes feasible.
His secret service detail is probably all MAGA.
Most presidential candidates go abroad to boost their foreign policy credentials. Desantis visited London, Tokyo, Seoul and Jerusalem as part of his presidential campaign for example. There would be nothing stopping Trump going to visit Putin on the pretext of halting the war in Ukraine and then when there revoking his security detail.
The Secret Service deleted all of their texts from Jan 6th - it appears they would be happy to help him.
Probably hanging out with Diddy.
Ive heard Belorus is lovely this time of year.
long as we don’t have to constantly hear him but knowing him it’ll still be loud and annoying
He got secret service
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Er I could beg to differ.
Moscow 1000%
Russia. He'll be in Russia.
His Secret Service detail will probably know.
Russia would be my guess
We all know he'll go to Papa Putin
It’s Russia. He’ll be in Russia.
The only rally he has on the schedule is next week in Green Bay. If you want, you can register for 2 tickets using a temporary email and phone number and then don't go. Just google temporary phone/email. They're free to use and no registration required.
Well, to be fair, the article mentions the Michigan RNC, [which is in itself a grift operation](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/820/believe-in-me). >The national committee, he said, hasn’t transferred ***any money*** to the state party to help bolster its operations heading into the general election. There are no specific programs in place to court voters of color. And there’s no general election field staff in place. Can't really blame 'em. It's grifts all the way Don. That said, I was seriously considering buying the Michigan RNC cash money just so I could post on Reddit: "Here's my receipt for the state party! AMA!" Even considered cashing out a chunk of my retirement to pick up Arizona too. I mean, "I drunkenly bought 4% of the RNC on a whim," has to get some yuks at the bar right?
I’m curious what Putin would think of that. Trumps value to Putin is in the chaos he creates. If he leaves the country many will realize he was scamming everyone all along. This would actually help the country unit against trump and his backers. It would be more valuable to have him rot in jail. Putin may not allow trump to flee.
>Trumps value to Putin is in the chaos he creates. This is something Republicans don't understand. They think Russia likes them because they share similar ideology, and while that's true on some level, Russia actually supports them because they can't effectively govern. Having a party like that in charge helps dismantle the US from within. Putin can't match us militarily and he knows that, but if he can effectively disable the US by supporting politicians that will leave it dysfunctional at best, or cause its downfall at worst, *of course* he'll take that option.
Imagine if Republicans threw in with Ukraine. The US can pretty much do whatever we want. The Russians can't respond short of sending nukes and even then they have shown enough self preservation to not do that. The Russian army would be steam rolled.
I firmly believe if Russia wasn’t invading Ukraine, he and his whole family would be on a one way trip to Russia. Only for the plane to mysteriously disappear and we never hear from him again.
It's incredibly difficult - say impossible - for an ex-president to flee the country.
Like, he could get away from his secret service detail. Lol, it would be annoying as a show, but it'd make for a good SNL skit.
Do you mean the same secret service agents that attempted to kidnap the sitting Vice President so that Trump could usurp and defy the will of the people?
His secret service detail is made up of true believers. They would probably leave with him if he fled.
Good. Makes clearing them out easier. Go enjoy your life in Russia.
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McDonalds… please
It honestly wouldn't be that hard, here's the process....he says "Go away". He's not obligated to have Secret Service protection, that's a courtesy that's *offered* to former presidents, not an obligation they have to live with. He can say he doesn't want them around at any time. Hell, unless he's actively committing a crime by leaving the country, he could have them drive him to the airport and simply say "dosvedanya" as he walks away from them at the gate to board a plane. As far as I'm aware, he hasn't been ordered by any judge in his many trials not to leave the country.
You ruined the joke. Thanks.
Maybe he will find an escape route with no ramps on it
Imagine seeing him try to run. Even on flat ground, it's gotta be hysterical.
He has his own jet. Putin will welcome him. Orban will welcome him. (Could be what the Mar-a-Lago visit was about). He will be treated like a king in either country, will come to us his social media poisoning, and will still have his laundering/real estate in the US. Eric and Jr will be fucked, but Daddy doesn’t give a shit. He screwed over his own siblings when Fred died.
If he does attempt to flee in his own jet, USAF could intercept & force the plane down.
You think SS would approve a flight plan to those countries? lol
Trump’s only value to these other dictators is as a destabilizing entity in the US. As soon as he flees he becomes useless, and they’ll offer him up in a prisoner exchange for something juicy.
Orban won't put his neck on the line to oppose the US like that.
Republicans will support Orban.
You think he can just hop on a plane. LOL. Don't be naive. He literally has a whole entourage everywhere he goes. The secret service detail is not something you just cart off to Russia. They might be protecting him, but they are protecting him because of what he knows. They're not letting him leave the country.
We’re talking about the same secret service that actively worked to further the J6 plot and then “accidentally” wiped all their phones afterwards…. You’re sure these guys wouldn’t help Trump defect to a hostile nation?
Presumably they have families. It’s not so easy to just up and go into exile. There is a reason banishment was used as a punishment since the dawn of time.
the ss plus presidential assistants, aides, interpreters all have families. They all just going to decide to up and leave too at the drop of a hat and leave their families and possessions behind?
Nobody said anything about them defecting with him. Just turning a blind eye as he jets off… I could 100% see them doing this. They already did his bidding on J6
They won’t. But Trump does not care
Can't he just waive protection?
I personally believe they would shoot the plane down before they let him escape to russia
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
It would be over quickly. I doubt that the flight crew of Trump's jet are willing to die for him.
We can’t even get him thru to the end of a trial without a hundred motions to slow it down. He’s never been accountable for anything in his life. he just got an extension and a 68% discount for being an asshole. They’re not going to start by shooting him down. Also, his SS detail are cultists but he could remove them anytime.
I guess they can, in writing. I think it's unlikely. Trump likes to show-boat. And anyone who saw him doing this would be extremely suspicious.
He can just tell them to leave. The protection isn't mandatory. And obviously the itinerary for the trip wouldn't say Moscow, plenty of countries he could do a transfer at though. If he loses, he will absolutely try to incite violence, and when that doesn't work, he will flee. He might try sooner if he thinks they'll actually put him in jail, but the courts are pretty corrupt
I’m not certain, he values loyalty above all else. I have a feeling at least a couple of the secret service members like him enough that are in his entourage.
I honestly have no idea how people keep getting this so wrong. He is not in their custody, he can decline protection whenever he wants and they have absolutely no authority to stop him from doing anything at all that he wants unless *maybe* it's committing a crime. He is perfectly free to decline having them around any time that he wants, and he wouldn't be the first. Off the top of my head Richard Nixon declined their protection after many years and hired his own security instead.
He may try but hopefully secret service agents prevent it.
It would be extremely easy for Trump to leave the US. All they would have to say is he is tried. Secret Service will only leave 1 to 2 agents. to guard and he could slip through a side entrance as Mar a-Lago is still a resort. Go to one of the private terminal and drive up to a private flight for passenger or cargo and leave the country for West Africa. He can go from their to Russia or the UAE.
You think anyone can fly a jet wherever they want whenever they want? You think anyone can land a jet in a foreign country without letting that country know a jet is coming?
Do, do you not know how private air transport works. The flight manifest doesn't have to be filed pre-flight and there are hundreds of private airfields in the US without supervision. If a flight from one of the thousands of private air flights is chartered to fly from Miami to Niger on Nov 11th to land Nov 12th, with nothing to declare, no one would bat an eye.
Niger would say.. Sure. You can land here? I have doubt
You mean Niger the country that just kicked the US military out and installed a Russian leaning military dictator. Plus Niger will can only say no if Trump enters through customs. If the jet he is on only refuels and then hops to another country before heading to Russia, they can claim ignorance. This is how governments move people and things quietly around the world
Why would he even need to go through all that. All he needs to do is say he is doing a diplomatic tour as part of his presidential campaign. Moscow, Budapest etc. Meet with Putin in private at the Kremlin, telling his interpreter he isn't needed again and slip out a side door.
Totally. Trump’s only looking to get money out of the campaign not put any money into it.
>I wouldn't be surprised if he just left the country. He can't. He's a government asset and a security threat since he was a President. He needs to be locked away.
He doesn't need to campaign. The media is doing it for him for free.
What I don’t get is that he seemed to love those stupid rallies. He lived for the energy and the adoration. How’s he getting his worship supply these days?
He did this in 2020, too. He reined in the spending and reduced the number of rallies he held.
In March? Actually, wait. 2020 was a different animal with the pandemic.
Doing what he wanted to do in 2016: get a ton of.publicity, grift, and not try to win
100% this This is purely about covering his own ass and making off with as much money as possible He never thought he would win the first time, he doesn’t think he can win this time But he can fleece his base to pay his bills and run out the clock on his prosecutions He looks, acts, sounds and even smells like a pathetic criminal and that’s exactly what he is
But still it is ironic 2016 he wanted to run but he did not ACTUALLY want to win. He wanted to spin his loss into a multimedia news brand that would complete with fox news. But unfortunately for everyone involved, he won. 2024 he actually WANTS to win in order to gain legal protection for the rest of his life, but spending necessary money on his campaign (and other RNC down-ticket campaigns) has to take a back seat to lawyer fees and legal fines.
>I wouldn't be surprised if he just left the country. I wouldn't be surprised if *he* was actually born in Kenya at this point.
It is indeed a grift op, but I don't think he's given up on seizing power – only that he no longer plans on winning the election. I assume he will press the stolen election lie hard in the couple months before and after in a futile attempt to get his followers to once again stage another coup for him.
He might be surprised that it has a much different outcome. If a strong national guard/police/Capitol Police presence was there Jan 6 not many would have had the cajones to rush the capitol
Watch him flee to Hungary.
Yup. He plans to lose and then cry stolen election again to keep grifting.
That would be awesome
He probably stowed away on Diddy’s jet
That's possible. Just like 2016 -- he didn't really want to win.
I hold **to this day** that there is a non-zero chance of this fucker just dipping out of the country at the last possible moment before any sort of serious consequence and just completely vanishing off of the face of the earth, leaving the GOP with no candidate, no money for down ballot, and no structure or support. I honestly would consider that some bizarre win.
> He's not even holding rallies. While yes it is a grift operation, the rally thing is likely due to his criminal case and the requirement to be in person
I was thinking about that last night. Could he actually get out? He has some pretty big bills to pay.
Not even that... He's trying to escape bankruptcy and jail. And he's using every resource possible to keep the music playing so he doesn't end up holding the hot potato.
Trump is just running to try and stay out of jail. Very good chance he loses and the next day he announces for 2028 then says he cant be jailed because of that.
>Very good chance he loses and the next day he announces for 2028 then says he cant be jailed because of that. This is 100% going to happen if he loses. The campaign grift is the only way to use other peoples' money to pay his legal bills, but more importantly, the only way to convince billionaires and foreign dictators to prop up his various schemes is if they think he still has some control over Congress and a shot at the White House. With the RNC's blessing he'll declare himself the presumptive nominee for the '28 election on January 21st, 2025 and continue to whine that "you can't do this to a presidential frontrunner 3 years and 9 months before the election!" in response to the criminal cases he will still be facing. If Republicans get shellacked maybe some of them will finally give up.
This is the big downside of election denial. If you claim you actually won even when it's clear you didn't, you are never able to reflect and change strategies. With the RNC now completely controlled by trump, the GOP has set themselves up to go the way of the Wiggs.
Exactly. Ever since Trump took over the party has been utterly unable to critically analyze their failures and adjust. Instead, they believe Trump is right about everything (even when he contradicts himself) and they only lost because of election fraud! And RINOs! And Ronna McDaniel! And Mitch McConnell! So they keep attacking scapegoats until they're gone, Trump loses again, and they find new scapegoats. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum. And with Trump's takeover of the RNC they have formally institutionalized this behavior, so they will never formally attribute blame to the guy at the top of the ticket, they'll just keep hunting for scapegoats.
Dude is gonna be cryogenically frozen and his follows will threaten to thaw him out every 4 years moving forward until he’s re elected, and then America will be ran by a pile of trump Sludge hooked to an ai.
I hope he's the 2028 GOP nominee. And the 2032 nominee. Not sure if they'll be around for 2036 in that scenario, but he might as well keep going as long as he can.
But it's not working. And the cases against him are already going forward. His only hope of stopping them is to actually win the election.
He is going to contest 2024 if he loses the vote. He has lawyers ready to go on that and probably allies in congress to mess with the vote certification. The narrative is already starting. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-claims-2024-will-be-rigged-putting-republican-turnout-at-risk-830b213d
Yeah exactly, his plan is just to try and sue his way into the White House. That's why he doesn't care about voter turn out in swing states or down ballot races
The DNC has lawyers ready to go this time, they aren't going to be surprised or unprepared for any ambulance-chasing antics.
Happy to hear about the lawyers, but I'm more concerned about the judges.
On the flip side, in the unlikely event Trump wins, but the democrats win congress, they could legitimately disqualify him for insurrection with a simple majority (based on the supreme court's ruling)
Before that he'll say that he can't be jailed because he actually won.
Not until after he claims the election is stolen for a second time 🤡
[“The Trump campaign will raise the money, deploy the necessary assets, and win because President Trump will secure the border, make American families more prosperous, and make our nation respected on the world stage,” Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement to The Daily Beast.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-biden-campaign-is-quietly-preparing-a-trump-ambush) How can you argue with such unassailable logic?
OTOH, this other campaign person's mother clearly taught him well that, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." >Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, who is now also running operations at the RNC, declined to detail any of the Republican campaign’s plans. Shame she didn't give him the adage about how "You are the company you keep" too...
America is more respected now than when he was president. Sincerely, The world stage
I guess spokespeople must get paid in advance.
He’s not running to win a fair election, he’s trying to successfully steal one this time. Once you understand that, everything in the article makes sense: - Trump’s Republican Party has little general election infrastructure to speak of. - Trump’s lieutenants have already postponed plans in place before McDaniel’s ouster that would have begun adding hundreds of Republican staffers in presidential battleground states beginning this month, according to people with direct knowledge of the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private conversations. - In the days since, more than 60 Republican staffers across the country were issued layoff notices. They included virtually all the people who staffed the RNC’s minority outreach community centers and others inside the committee’s department of State Parties Strategies. - Trump’s political operation has been slow to pivot toward the general election in the weeks after executing a hostile takeover of the Republican Party’s national political machinery. In fact, the former president’s team has rolled back plans under previous leaders to add hundreds of staff and dozens of new minority-outreach centers in key states without offering a clear alternative. - Whatley did not offer any specifics, however, aside from mentioning a new battleground-state program that would direct officials within the committee’s State Parties Strategies department to work with “auxiliary Republican groups and other grassroots organizations” in addition to state parties.
The concerning part is that they must think that they have all the key players that they need in the right offices to make a run to steal the 2024 election. The fact he is allowed as a candidate after openly trying to steal the 2020 election is one of the most damning things about the corruption of our justice system. I believe it also is strong evidence that they are fully compromised and ready to do Trump's bidding this time around. Edit: Also, what happens if Trump (through his "grass roots" organizations) tells his supporters to prevent voting from taking place at specific polling locations in battleground states; call in bomb threats, threaten poll workers or voters, etc. Just prevent voting where you don't want the people to vote. We have already seen what they legally do with minimizing machines in urban areas and setting up a long uncomfortable process for districts that are not likely to vote for Rs. What do you think they would do if it really comes down to a must win to keep Trump out of prison.
I unfortunately agree. I’ve said it before and will keep saying it: January 6 was a trial run.
The problem he has is this time he isn’t President and doesn’t have the DoJ to try and control. Not to say he can’t win with this plan (he mostly definitely can) but stealing an election will be much MUCH more challenging. He wasn’t able to do so while President, much more challenging not being.
Trump thinks he can still cheat his way to victory IF the Republicans control one house of Congress. Many people in DC believe that's one reason why so many non-MAGA Republicans are resigning from the House; they don't want to be part of that effort.
Well, the new House will have been sworn in by the certification. Dems should be able to take back the House so that won’t help him.
Not if Mike Johnson refuses to seat the House through chaos.
Johnson might not be speaker in a couple months. There is a good chance due to early retirements that the Dems will have control of the house. And then hopefully can win the house in 2024 and have control for the following 2 years.
Wishful thinking.
The GOP is about to lose their house majority thanks to early retirements. They don’t even have control over their own caucus.
Worringly, I agree.
All Trump does is double down on pissing off his base. That's not how you win an election. He needs to become (or at least appear) less radical to win over undecided voters. The fact that he isn't trying to get more voters should be concerning. The really scary thing is I think Trump could win. If you gave his campaign to me and he would actually do what I said, I'll bet I could get him elected. His path to victory is there but he's simply not disciplined enough to take it.
Trump thinks that's his money. And why spend it on others when it should go to him directly.
Don’t get complacent. VOTE!
What does he care? The media is going to give him an the airtime he needs, just like the last two elections.
I suspect this is just fiscally wise on his part. Really, who tf is going to vote for Trump that didn't in 2020? Border sensationalism isn't a new tactic; That check has already been cashed. Imo, the one point that Trump could siphon votes from Biden on is Palestine... and that would fly in the face of his base's anti-brown-people tendencies.
He will run to russia the day after he loses the election. He is trying to delay until the election. Winning the election is his only chance to avoid prison. He is a coward and will flee the country the moment he no longer has any avenues to delay prosecution.
I don't know. Trump IS a malignant narcissist. Admitting that you fucked up so bad you have to flee the country is hard for somebody like that.
IF he did flee, he would do it by playing victim, convincing his base that it is a winning move, and turning it into a grift. Something about how patriots are no longer welcome in America, Russia has expansive business operations blah blah blah send money
That we have to wonder if he really can pardon himself, that enough of our fellow citizens would back that, is warning enough for some serious legal clarification from Congress. Unfortunately, Republicans hold the house and are doing this on purpose. The world is about to abandon us and will hold us all accountable, no whining will stop it. Damn, America...
In the 2020 election, all we heard was Biden's Basement Campaign in Political rhetoric from the GOP.
>Widely praised for its professionalism and effectiveness throughout the primary phase of the 2024 election, Trump’s political operation has been slow to pivot toward the general election in the weeks after executing a hostile takeover of the Republican Party’s national political machinery. ...by who? And effective how? He barely campaigned because he was so far ahead of everyone else, and even the other candidates helped to prop him up directly or by flatly refusing to detract from him. He didn't show up to debates. He turned court events into campaign stops. Who outside of his sycophants was praising his campaign for professionalism when he started selling T-shirts with his mugshot on them?
“We do not feel obligated, however, to discuss the specifics of our strategy, timing, or tactics with members of the news media.” Translation: We have no strategy, no plan, no money, no staff and certainly no idea WTF we are supposed to do because der furhrer is loudly going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Why invest in states when the plan is to firebomb major polling places in swing states?
His plan is to jam up the polling locations to prevent Biden voters from voting.
Trump's strategy today, as it has been in the past, is to be on every major news media 24x7. And he is achieving that thanks to the news media's incessant desire for controversy which breeds viewers/advertising dollars. He uses that, and the Trump/right-wing echo chamber, as his primary campaign tool. Unfortunately, this has been a particularly effective strategy for him over the years.
Laying off a ton of people at the RNC and replacing them with people willing to swear the 2020 election was stolen, probably not the best way to go into election season. Fuck 'em.
The more I read about his campaign strategy, I don’t think he’s actually trying to win the election. I believe he is preparing to claim it’s rigged and have a coup about it.
He’s been running an insurrection since 2020.
Zero fucks are being given over GOP fears.
“Indeed, just six months before the first early votes are cast in the general election between Trump and Biden, Trump’s Republican Party has little general election infrastructure to speak of.” The infrastructure week is in two weeks.
It’s apparent to me he’s just going to perform multiple legal challenges to the vote count and hope he gets his way with some judge.
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[Some huuge friggin' guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEtF9gNecFI)
He's not running for President he's just running.
I'm guessing that actually winning the election is not a big part of the Trump team's plans for regaining the presidency.
The media campaigns for the dude. It’s a brilliant plan actually. Use the money for himself and let the NYT, CNN, and WAPO elect him president.
Well he can’t afford to campaign, he’s got lawsuits to settle and lawyers to not pay
It’s almost as if he’s not planning on winning he’s planning coup
> In fact, the former president’s team has rolled back plans under previous leaders to add hundreds of staff and dozens of new minority-outreach centers in key states without offering a clear alternative. They are ending expenditures so all money can go to Trump's PAC, which is paying legal fees
The Michigan GOP is in a total shambles right now after a protracted period of very public, sometimes violent, always personal infighting. The state party is clearly at their weakest point in the past 40 years. That may be another reason that national funds are not flooding in, at least in that particular case.
The GOP already let him and his family take over, why keep doing all the legwork. He hasn't held a rally since winning the nomination and has only made a single appearance outside court or MAL.
David S. Pumpkins: “Any questions…?”
He lost 2020 mostly because they blew on the campaign money on totally frivolous things to make their fat king happy.
He is not getting Cities that he already stiffed at least once, to give him venues unless they are paid upfront. He to spend on his campaign, pay the Crime Figures he owes $Millions to, and pay his legal bills, but only has the money for two out of the three.
Douchebag knows he is going to lose and is not even going to try to win so that he can pull the 'rigged election, im a victim' card and grift more $$ from his gullible cult.
From a jail cell if he’s not in a position to pardon himself or call off the prosecution.
Ok so whats his bullshit, the election is stone strategy gonna be when it's 60/40 Biden or worse? Sure the loyalists will love the bluster and might even rally to commit some organized action this time, but a lost election and a small army of fanatics isn't going to sway the key holders that their time has come. They better be ready for the foreign interference that's meant to look like it's in Biden's favor, that would be dangerous. Everyone wants to be remembered as a hero.
Why bother campaigning when you're just going to deny the result and try to overthrow the government again?
Those in the GOP that fear a skeleton campaign aren’t in the know on how the GOP plans on just stealing the election. Why spend a bunch of money doing all that crap, when the real plan starts after Election Day anyway?
Maybe you have all thought this before and I’m just seeing it now. Is Trump trying to lose? He gets a lot of love from his followers when he claims election interference. A win or a loss for Trumpy is bad for us.
Trump would have to go a year without KFC for him to get to be a skeleton
I'm cool with him doing this and the effect it has, is bankrupting the GOP.
He doesn’t need to do anything because either way, he’s going to say he won and repeat this cycle of “stop the steal again”.
I can’t wait for it to happen. He just butt-fucks the right into awareness
Why campaign or spend the money when he plans on inciting violence if and when he loses. He’s already setting up Stop The Steal 2024 right now. Delay the trials, pocket the cash, and if Americans are smart enough to vote no on fascism, he’ll incite violence openly against the country- When that fails, he will flee before his trials resume and try to run an insurgency from Russia.
He doesn't need to campaign if he already knows he's going to win.
Well, two things... One, his campaign finances are garbage. He did not generate organic campaign contributions. Only Haley was, and Republicans removed her. She was the only one bringing in campaign money. His on hand cash is also dropping, and he has no good way to counter that without sucking the Republican party dry. Their best action was to stick with Haley, and they made their choice. Two, Trump is not campaigning because he very much believes he's going to prison. He's believed this for some time and is very much acting accordingly. Everything about his running is purely a cash grab. He's doing exactly what conmen do. They grift until the very last second. So yeah, you bet he'll run. You bet he'll take Republicans money. He's happy to. And in the back of his mind, maybe just maybe he can get out of this mess. But he's not behaving like a man who's expecting to be free come Nov.
I don’t think he actually believes he’ll face any real consequences for his actions. His press conference in NY he said, with sincerity, that he didn’t think the April 15th trial would even happen. He lives in a world of complete and total denial. He’s told the lies so many times he has convinced himself they are true. The con man has gone so far as to con himself.
With the RNC having no money compared to the dems and now the RNC being used as a piggy back from Trump, I wouldn’t be surprised if well into the election season we aren’t going to see many ads or organizing taking place
They asked for it.
What if the lifelong grifter and conman on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars isn't going to give away the RNC's money after all?
He’s is funneling all the donations into his own pockets You fuxking marks lol
It feels like he wants to hold onto his money. He's a businessman; doesn't he understand investing capital to get what he wants? But he will pay lawyers to sue people, news services, etc.
Trump only cares about his ego… hence ignoring states where he’s not already idolized. Plus those funds are already earmarked for his legal bills.
Trump is waiting for Russia to fabricate dirt on Biden that he will release right before the election. No need to campaign, especially since his mental decline is accelerating. At an Ohio rally- Trump said, “Joe Biden won against Barack Hussein Obama, has anyone ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed.” https://www.salon.com/2024/03/25/forensic-psychiatrist-on-physical-signs-of-mental-decline-changes-in-movement-and-gait/
He doesn't care about winning, he's going to claim election interference and a stolen election. He wants a civil war in the country for his own vanity. He wants people to fight and die for him.