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ExWhoDoesntCare

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39. It wasn't a publicity stunt
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:03 AM
Jul 2023

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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the ego angle has always been a silly interpretation Blues Heron Jul 2023 #1
Absolutely, gab13by13 Jul 2023 #2
Short note: DOJ has dumped tRUMP out in the cold vis a vie E Jean Carroll. TigressDem Jul 2023 #14
Garland dumped Trump now, gab13by13 Jul 2023 #23
True. TigressDem Jul 2023 #30
But Russia collusion was a hoax! Frasier Balzov Jul 2023 #3
And Mueller was prohibited from investigating anything financial? kentuck Jul 2023 #5
Mueller indicted; gab13by13 Jul 2023 #8
I read Art of the Deal when I was thirteen-ish Showbizkid Jul 2023 #4
But why did it get "out of control"? kentuck Jul 2023 #6
See post #8 gab13by13 Jul 2023 #9
I mean, Perot got 20 percent in 92 Showbizkid Jul 2023 #16
I don't either stopdiggin Jul 2023 #25
My big fear is that if Trump was planned, we're truly screwed Showbizkid Jul 2023 #29
don't buy it stopdiggin Jul 2023 #33
Agree Showbizkid Jul 2023 #49
It wasn't a publicity stunt ExWhoDoesntCare Jul 2023 #39
He toyed with running for 25 years in really stupid ways Showbizkid Jul 2023 #42
he also played at being a TV/media personality and star stopdiggin Jul 2023 #53
I don't believe that he thought he was going to win in 2016. ShazzieB Jul 2023 #59
If it wasn't Russia, I'd definitely look to Saudi Arabia. Initech Jul 2023 #7
Perhaps they need an Inspector General (IG) to look into it? kentuck Jul 2023 #12
China's been all over mar a lago as well. Demanchor Jul 2023 #34
Putin has basically owned tRUMP since 2016. TigressDem Jul 2023 #10
I wonder if he ever responded to all of Kim Jung Un's love letters? kentuck Jul 2023 #18
Would he? Showbizkid Jul 2023 #20
It would be like the Ivanka mansion in Kazhakistan... kentuck Jul 2023 #22
Dunno. TigressDem Jul 2023 #31
Not at all! usonian Jul 2023 #11
"What did MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #13
I did not know that Maria Butina was there? kentuck Jul 2023 #21
Occam's razor suggests that Trump's ignorance and stupidity is... TreasonousBastard Jul 2023 #15
I think the better question is why was he famous in the first place? Showbizkid Jul 2023 #19
I remember Trump from many years ago. My parents even bought... TreasonousBastard Jul 2023 #24
+1. you can ferret under the bed, and all the closets too stopdiggin Jul 2023 #28
The former pee-resident of the United States is a traitor. Kid Berwyn Jul 2023 #17
Where is the link to your statement they feared Trump? former9thward Jul 2023 #26
Pompeo in 2017 Kid Berwyn Jul 2023 #45
I agree with you MyMission Jul 2023 #27
I think the documents case has to look at who picked out the documents Warpy Jul 2023 #32
Possibility? It's a certainty relayerbob Jul 2023 #35
Putin has, in general, been trying to undermine American society. But I doubt... Silent3 Jul 2023 #36
Possible I guess. trump has been, IMO, a Russian asset... brush Jul 2023 #37
Remember that shortly after the transfer to Biden moniss Jul 2023 #38
I am still convinced that it was all ANTIFA. ;) Chainfire Jul 2023 #40
We don't hear much about them any more. Or the NRA. nt leftyladyfrommo Jul 2023 #44
What do you mean by "counter-intelligence" or "counter-espionage"? muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #41
What would be the correct term? kentuck Jul 2023 #46
Well, it depends on what you mean muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #48
Yes, as in espionage by another country. kentuck Jul 2023 #51
K...and...R spanone Jul 2023 #43
Think it's undeniable that foreign players were involved in that administration. For me, it was allegorical oracle Jul 2023 #47
I think you are wildly overstating Putin's powers/abilities Showbizkid Jul 2023 #50
Not just any "American"... kentuck Jul 2023 #52
We don't know what Putin has on tfg. It may be worse than Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. It may be a allegorical oracle Jul 2023 #56
I think this is where we differ Showbizkid Jul 2023 #57
I wouldn't doubt that DOJ/CIA are secretly investigating that very threat Mr. Ected Jul 2023 #54
I think you are probably correct. kentuck Jul 2023 #55
Always ask: WHO BENEFITS? Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #58
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