Lets face it
The guy is done
He says he’s running for president but he isn’t
These days he just licking his wounds, crying and trying as hard as he can to say and doing things to MAKE SURE he won’t be a serious candidate
Now the media isn’t gonna isn’t gonna let trump NOT run
He’s just toooo good a gift for numbers and ad dollars
In the end?
Trump winning the presidency was a mistake
He probably thinks that every night
Until being President he could operate below radar…
No more….
In the end
The ‘System’ just isn’t going to allow someone endanger it’s existence
Not even a sore loser Real Estate Entertainer from Queens, NYC that is allergic to the rules and the law….
A guy who is actually his OWN worst enemy
All this while Trump keeps pimping money from his faithful
This is while his poll numbers keep dropping
Most Republican law makers maybe afraid to say in public anything past knocking who he has dinner with….
But the list of those willing to move in public against him for the 2024 GOP Presidential nomination grows each week….
This dog thinks someone on that list will be the Grant ole Parties nominee….
NOT Donald J. Trump….
No magical resurrection this time…
Nope….
The swagger of 2016 has given way to somnolence in 2022. Opinion polls are grim. Legal setbacks are piling up. A run of dismal results in the midterm elections, culminating in another Republican loss in Georgia this week, have punctured his aura of invincibility within the party.
And Trump has performed astonishing acts of self-sabotage, from dining with antisemites to calling for the constitution to be shredded. He has eschewed a widely-anticipated spree of public rallies, instead remaining largely out of the public gaze.
For any conventional candidate, such a list would be career-ending. For Trump, who has long defied political gravity, the fallout remains uncertain. But even the most ardent propagandist would be hard pushed to describe it as a flying start.
“It couldn’t be going any worse,” said Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University in Washington. “And it’s not because Donald Trump is making mistakes. It’s because Donald Trump is being Donald Trump.
“He was something new and fresh and interesting back in 2016. He has presided over three disastrous election cycles for Republicans in 2018, 2020 and 2022 and he’s the same old Donald Trump, caring only about himself, wrapped up in his own grievances and his own whining. It’s just not playing anymore for the American people.”…
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“Trump’s companies have been operating as a criminal enterprise. That’s now established in court: 17 counts. And of course he still could be indicted on a host of different charges: mishandling classified documents, meddling in the Georgia election, inciting a riot, interfering with Congress, tax fraud. There are any number of potential violations.”
Many regard Trump’s early campaign launch as blatant attempt to head off such a prospect. He characterises the investigations as politically motivated “witch hunts” reminiscent of the Russian collusion “hoax”. His gamble is that the justice department will be reluctant to prosecute an active candidate lest it be accused of interfering in an election.
Kurt Bardella, a Democratic strategist, said: “It seems like it’s not really a campaign but more of an effort to use the illusion of a campaign to try and manage his legal situation. The Trump legal strategy is directly tied to the Trump 2024 strategy. They’re one and the same.”
Garland’s actions so far suggest that the bid for legal immunity has failed. Trump’s effort to clear the Republican field, intimidating and chasing away potential challengers in 2024, has been equally futile, serving only to expose his vulnerabilities….
The Hill joins me in discounting Trump’s Early 2024 ‘campaign’…..
…Trump has brought in a handful of staffers for the operation, including Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, but there is no clear campaign manager.
He has not left Florida for any campaign events. He addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas virtually while several other possible 2024 candidates attended in person. Trump did not hold a rally in Georgia in support of Walker, instead doing a telerally amid concerns his presence would turn off independent voters.
There have been no major policy rollouts or campaign infrastructure announcements in the weeks since Trump launched his bid. His one impromptu speech came during a gala at Mar-a-Lago, when he took to a microphone to denounce the appointment of a Justice Department special counsel to handle investigations into his conduct now that he is formally a candidate for office.
The general lack of activity has only fueled speculation among some Trump critics that the early announcement was intended to potentially insulate the former president from a possible indictment over his handling of classified documents.
Meanwhile, Trump has generated an avalanche of bad headlines with his private meetings and social media commentary….
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