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In reply to the discussion: Has everyone over-looked the possibility of a counter-intelligence operation? [View all]ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)39. It wasn't a publicity stunt
I don't understand why people want to think the guy didn't want to be POTUS, when he'd made no bones about wanting it--and even going after it--for several decades before 2016.
Pay attention to the history:
1) He kept the letter he got back in the 70s telling him Pat Nixon said he'd be POTUS one day.
2) He put out tentative feeling for a traitor party run in 1988.
3) Somebody printed professional signs about him running for office, an example of it as seen in this 1999 music video (time stamp 1:02):
4) He tried to get the nomination for the Reform Party ticket in 2000.
5) Then in 2015, he realized he accepted that he had to run as an r if he wanted to get anywhere. So that's what he did.
I don't now what it will take for people to realize that nobody tries to run for office that many times, over such a long time period, without wanting that office--and badly.
It was never about publicity or getting a new show or any of that.
He
Wanted
To
Be
POTUS.
I'm not saying he wanted it for good reasons--he's incapable of that. But that he wanted it for the sake of being President and all that came with the office? Absolutely. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
He wanted it. He wanted it more than he'd wanted anything else in his entire life.
Stop overthinking it and making it more complicated than it is--or ever was.
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