Does Trump Want to Fight for a Second Term? His Self-Sabotage Worries Aides

[sunonmars]

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Advisers and allies say the president’s repeated acts of self-destruction have significantly damaged his re-election prospects, and yet he appears mostly unable, or unwilling, to curtail them.

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Many feel he is deliberately trying to lose the election, that he is incapable of keeping control.........

I do get a feeling we are heading for the final reckoning......

[sop]

1. I suspect he regrets ever having run in the first place. He'll eventually blame Obama for having

ridiculed him at the WH Correspondents' Dinner, and goading him into running for president.

[RKP5637]

2. "I never wanted to be President, I did it for the good of the country!"

[empedocles]

3. Wasn't barr a confirming source for the trump bunker episode?

'Contradicting Trump, Barr Says Bunker Visit Was for Safety, Not an ‘Inspection’
The attorney general’s account stood in direct contrast to the version that the president offered last week when he suggested he had merely been looking the place over.'

By Peter Baker and Katie Benner
June 8, 2020

[Newest Reality]

4. Let him...

Let him sow the seeds of his own destruction. It would be a travesty to interfere with that because it is deserved. Let's see how pride does go before a fall, big time.

Not even his exaggerated braggadocio can save him in that case since it becomes a noose that will gradually restrict itself unto the end.

No better downfall would there be than Trump doing it bigly, like nobody else in history. Yuge!

[Mike 03]

8. "It would be a travesty to interfere with that..."

Couldn't agree more!

[LiberalArkie]

5. I suspect he did everything in his power to not win the last election

[Aristus]

15. Yeah, that's why I don't buy this 'he's trying to lose' discussion.

There's nothing he can do to sabotage his re-election chances with the people who voted for him last time. They'll go down with the ship...

[Gothmog]

6. trump needs to re-elected or he faces prison

For trump, it is a second term or a jail term

[FakeNoose]

16. We know that, but he'll never acknowledge it

I'm sure that Chump has money stashed in offshore accounts. He'll be on a plane flying out of the country before the FBI can cuff him. I have no idea where he'd go because not many places would take him. Some place with no extradition, that has excellent golf - that eliminates China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and maybe Russia.

If Australia would take him, I bet that's where he'll go. He'll die in the Outback in one day.

[Mike 03]

7. "I have to be myself"

Mr. Trump pushed back against his aides. “I have to be myself,” he replied, according to three people familiar with the meeting. A few hours later, he posted on Twitter a letter from his former personal lawyer describing some of the protesters as “terrorists.”

Go for it, big guy!

[dhill926]

9. and hopefully he'll take down the entire republican party with him...

he's got all the dirt. He'll spill it all, because he can't help himself...

[musclecar6]

10. That's exactly what we want

Him to be himself. Trump always was the quintessential New York City asshole. Most people in New York City are nice people just like anywhere else in our country. Unfortunately there’s always a few bad apples in the bunch like Trump that spoil it for everybody else.

[Initech]

11. I almost feel like he's setting us up for a Black Sox scandal type of situation.

He's definitely incapable of leading his way out of a paper bag. And he could purposefully throw in the towel.

[kacekwl]

12. Like in 2016 he never thought he'd win.

But now he doesn't want to be seen as a loser so he'll cry fraud and cheating democrats for his loss. He thinks he will go about his life at Mara loser and golf ⛳ all day. I pray he spends his post white house days ratting out his family and every other scumbag republican who helped him commit treason. Then rot in jail the rest of his days.

[Caliman73]

13. Question to aides: Where the hell have you been the last 4 years!?!

This isn't anything new or different. Trump has not changed one bit since he came down the "golden escalator" to his bought crowd and called Mexicans "rapists", hell, he hasn't changed since before then. The only thing that has changed is that the stakes are higher and the spotlight is much brighter.

Many presidents and other politicians have a learning curve. They make some "rookie" mistakes. Then they learn, at least to keep their mouth shut so as to not exacerbate the situation. This guy has shown, from day ONE, that he is self destructive, that he doesn't learn, that he doesn't care to learn, and the only reason that he is still in office and not in a jail cell is that the ENTIRE GOP has aided and abetted him in order to retain power. There has been NO change since he was a candidate nor since he has been in office. As I said, the only thing that has changed is that his incompetent, malicious, and criminal handling of the country, has increased the danger to everybody in the United States AND the world. Would 120,000 people have died from COVID-19 if President Obama was in office? I would bet my house NO. We would have been on the ground in China, directing resources to keep it there and contain it. Anything that came over to the US would have been quarantined and traced and our numbers would have been like South Korea or Taiwan's. The economy wouldn't have crashed, and we would be functioning in a more normal manner than we are now.

Back to the topic, Trump is not JUST becoming self destructive. He has ALWAYS been that way. He is not trying to lose the election. He is just incapable of regulating his emotions and he lacks the ability to behave in a pro-social manner. There is no planning, there is only reaction. He is only dangerous because he has been given real power and not just his impotent bluster when he grifted his way into the White House.

[Hekate]

14. When is it going to occur to those people that he is, in fact, nuts?

Are they really that blind themselves?

[Andy823]

17. He is a malignant narcissist

with early signs of dementia, and that's not good. He is trying to control "everything" around him, and he knows he could go to jail if he loses. The dementia and trumps ego are not working well together.

I wonder what it will be like at his rally in Oklahoma when he goes into his ranting and raving about everything. Will he make a complete fool of himself, or an even bigger fool of himself than he normally does?

[Skittles]

18. it is NOT "self-sabotage"

THIS IS WHO HE IS, THIS IS WHO HE ALWAYS WAS AND WHO HE WILL ALWAYS BE, he is INCAPABLE OF CHANGING. The difference now is IT IS HARDER TO EXCUSE WHEN THE COUNTRY IS FALLING APART.

[Midnight Writer]

19. Exactly. He is compelled to act an ass. That is his identity.