My guess is that Trump will announce his campaign for '24 in the next few weeks.. why?

[Peacetrain]

Because he is in the deep stuff and knows it.

You can see he has succeeded in getting those who supported him also very muddy and covered with the crap he spewed back into harness to protect themselves.. they see no other way out

Reflecting on Trump and his cohorts.. he thinks he can use the fact he is running for President to keep the hounds at bay that want him treed and held accountable.

This is all speculation on my part..

But I would not be surprised one bit if he did not announce his run to cover his guilty tracks

[mopinko]

1. so he can start up the grift again.

[Peacetrain]

2. Exactly...I don't think it ever ended to be honest .. but

it will full furl if he announces

[mopinko]

5. i think it's slowed small dollars

but i'm sure the big bucks never stopped rollin in.

[secondwind]

6. He never stopped the grift... it is still ongoing.

[themaguffin]

10. It never really stopped, but yeah.

[Thomas Hurt]

14. As I understand it, he has not announced because once he does their are finance disclosures regs

that kick in and he of course is grifting, has always been grifting and does not want to have to expose where the money is going.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Also,

It gets the media paying attention to him and the Dems will waffle on attacking him because it will look “political”.

[jimfields33]

15. Media paying attention to him?

He’s got so much attention on the news, every social network, political sites, ect. He’s talked about 80 percent of the day. Thread after thread is a discussion of him down to how he looks, his feeling, what he says. He doesn’t need attention at all.

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. But those discussions are about

his criminal activities, not the ones that report on what he is doing and saying to “make America great again”. If he announces he’s running, the corporate media will dial up the the both-siderism and fawning pieces like they did in 2016.

[SheilaAnn]

4. I agree with all of this, just hoping it doesn't work. n/t

[SledDriver]

7. The old "You can't go after a candidate" BS

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I think that in the long run he won't make serious run

for 2024. For one thing, he will probably have serious challengers from his party. For another, it will seem too much like work for him. Not that the actual duties of the Presidency kept him off the golf course or from watching TV and tweeting several hours each day.

While he will always have ignoramus supporters, he will eventually alienate enough in the GOP to no longer be viable. Especially as his hand-picked candidates lose elections themselves.

[empedocles]

9. Evidence of trump trying to step things up into higher gear -

When trump did speech in Nashville earlier this week, he permitted live cameras - reported by MSNBC Hallie, the first in a long time.

[empedocles]

11. Hair on trump's forehead seemed noticeably more, ah, translucent

[SoCalDavidS]

12. Why Do People Continue To Believe He's The Slightest Bit Worried About "Accountability?"

He KNOWS that he's untouchable, and has nothing to worry about. Sure, there might be some lawyers he has to hire and end up stiffing, but as for consequences for his actions, he's pretty much in the clear.

[fightforfreedom]

13. I agree, I don't when it will happen.

Trump will Announce he is running for president. He needs to do so because then he gets a microphone to tell his lies. It will give him political cover. He can say the investigations are political witch hunts to ruin his run for president. Of course he will able to steal more of his voters money.

[Harvey Wineburger]

16. I suspect he'll wait until the outcomes of the mid-terms are decided.

And even then not right away.

Until he officially declares there is a myriad of election campaign laws that he doesn't have to comply with.

from the FEC:

Before deciding to campaign for federal office, an individual may want to "test the waters"—in other words, explore the feasibility of becoming a candidate. An individual who spends money merely to test the waters (but not to campaign for office) does not have to register as a candidate. Nevertheless, funds raised to test the waters are subject to the Federal Election Campaign Act’s (the Act) limits and prohibitions.

Once an individual begins to campaign or decides to become a candidate, funds that were raised or spent to test the waters apply to the $5,000 threshold for qualifying as a candidate. Once that threshold is exceeded, the individual must register and begin filing reports.

A loophole large enough to fly a 767 through.

https://www.fec.gov/