Trump's Already Gaming Out a 2024 Run--Including an Event During Biden's Inauguration

[RandySF]

In the twilight of his presidency, Donald Trump is discussing different ways to disrupt the impending Joe Biden era, chief among them by announcing another run against him.

According to three people familiar with the conversations, the president, who refuses to acknowledge he lost the 2020 election as he clearly did, has not just talked to close advisers and confidants about a potential 2024 run to reclaim the White House but about the specifics of a campaign launch. The conversations have explored, among other things, how Trump could best time his announcement so as to keep the Republican Party behind him for the next four years. Two of these knowledgeable sources said the president has, in the past two weeks, even floated the idea of doing a 2024-related event during Biden’s inauguration week, possibly on Inauguration Day, if his legal effort to steal the 2020 election ultimately fails.

The president and some of his closest associates have already started surveying prominent donors to get a sense of who would be with him, or perhaps against him, if he chose to run in the 2024 election. Some top Trump allies have told The Daily Beast that they are doing what they can to stay in the president’s good graces, calculating that doing so will help ensure a seat at the table and a future in the party—in the event he runs again.

Trump’s scheming about a future White House run is both an implicit recognition that he views his own current legal efforts as longshots and a reflection of his inherent desire to maintain political power and public attention.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-already-gaming-out-a-2024-run-including-an-event-during-bidens-inauguration?ref=home

[BainsBane]

1. the reason for this is to continue grifting

and create pacs that he can use to enrich himself.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I was just reminded that his Secret Service agents will still work for the Treasury Department.

He'll only be able to grift so much before they report his actions to the proper authorities. He'll no longer have the presidency to protect him.

[BainsBane]

11. some of that campaign self-dealing is legal

that's the problem.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Not all of it, however.

Including any attempts to sell of state secrets. Which I have little doubt he will attempt to do.

[BainsBane]

23. of course

That's treason.

[rsdsharp]

17. It was transferred to Homeland Security in 2003.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Well, either way, they're still going to be answering to Biden's governement, and not to Trump.

They may be protecting him, but he's no longer going to be their boss. They're a federal law enforcement agency, and Trump will no longer have the cover of the presidency to hide under--even from his Secret Service protectors.

[leftieNanner]

2. Whatever he does,

I hope that FINALLY the MSM ignores this ignorant attention whore.

Let him hold his stupid rally on January 20th. Just don't tell us about it. Don't report on it. No images and no video footage.

FUCKING Ignore Him!!

[Rollo]

9. Yup. Ignore the creep.

[Vinca]

3. I kind of figured he'd have his own alternate "inauguration." Any psychiatrists looking for patients

should check it out.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Fine by me.

Those of us celebrating Biden's inauguration will just ignore his "competing" event, which will just look juvenile and petty by comparison. And let him continue to be an anchor around the GOP's neck for the next four years.

[we can do it]

5. I really don't care, do you?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. Why would anyone be concerned about staying in Trump's good graces?

By now, they can't see he's a walking, talking shitshow?

[LakeArenal]

7. Please proceed.

[struggle4progress]

20. +

[Andy823]

8. All trump wants is

$$$$$$$ from his brain dead base. As long as those fools keep donating trump will "say" he is running again, but in reality it won't happen because because then he would be a "two time" loser!

[GoCubsGo]

12. Most networks stopped airing his stupid rallies when he was actually running for something.

I think they've had enough of his antics, and will give him little or no attention. It's not like he'll have anything new to say. It's pretty much guaranteed that he'll just blather the same old, tired-ass shit he usually spews. The new administration will pull in much higher ratings, than a tedious rerun. I think the only network coverage he'll get will be from the likes of Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon...

[TlalocW]

14. What kind of inauguration is Biden planning?

If I were him, I'd have a small affair in the Oval Office where he's sworn in with everyone wearing masks, make a short speech then immediately start doing the normal begin-of-term executive orders like overturning the abortion global gag rule, etc. Trump will be his normal flailing self, and his assholery will contrast nicely with the image of adults being in charge again.

TlalocW

[FloridaBlues]

15. Hope NY state throws the book at him. Doubt he will run again.

[ooky]

16. He's just making hay while he still can, collecting money

from those dumb enough to keep sending it to him.

[frazzled]

19. PT Barnum couldn't have thought up something like this

It’s dog-and-pony horse shit. Send in the clowns.

[Buckeyeblue]

21. It would be interesting if he were in the middle of an event as he became former president

And his large contingent of secret service started stepping away like instruments ceasing to play during Inda goda davida until there is the one agent (who drew the short straw) left.

[Voltaire2]

22. By 2024 he will be too frail physically and mentally.

If he does run he will get beaten in the primaries by some other fascist bastard.

That would be excellent. His cult would follow him off a cliff, a third party cliff.

[Ohio Joe]

24. Meh... Who cares what the shitstain is planning...

Even if he pardons himself, he'll be up to his eyeballs in legal woes.