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Trump is a lame duck. Donating to his campaign is useless.

They have one path for political redemption, and it’s to acquire Trump annd his allies’ companies and/or invest in their funds.



I wonder if a big enough ad spend at X would be enough.


How is he a lame duck?


Technically he can't run again so he doesn't need any money for his own campaign. However, he might reward donations to his friends in the MAGA Cinematic Universe.


The past 8 years have been a nonstop stream of "he can't" and "that'll cause a civil war."

I'm not sure why people are still expecting normalcy.


Where’s Warren G Harding when you need him!


I’m sure the constitution will be changed to allow Trump to remain President, one way or the other way.


The US constitution would allow him to "run" ( usually it's coast ) as Vice President to the next POTUS .. and that would also allow him one day less than two years as POTUS should the VP be required to take over for the sitting President.

Realistically Trump most likely lacks any interest once his various and sundry pending felony and other charges have been quashed or voided by immunity grants, etc.


Does this mean he wouldn't have run this time if it weren't for his legal troubles?


I can't say for certain, I'm Australian and don't work with the US political admin (ie no inside line) but there's certainly been US insiders that have strongly hinted dodging massive mounting legal trouble was a major motivation for Trump to run again.

To be clear they may have been deadly serious, seriously joking, or both at the same time .. it's just that good a fit as a theory.


The Machiavellian move by Biden would have been a pardon conditioned on retiring from public service.


I'm sure that would have worked about as well as Napoleon agreeing to live in exile on Elba.


Sir, I served with Napoleon Bonaparte. I knew Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte was a friend of mine. Sir, Trump is no Napoleon Bonaparte.


OTOH Elba is a much more vibrant place nowadays. Trump would even have some opportunities to run a B&B


Many people are saying.


If he were to do a Medvedev/Putin-style ticket, the least he could do by way of acknowledgement would be to have his loyal "President" get filmed dancing to Kombinatsiya's "Russian Girls" (1989).

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6QLO7wXLKk


Almost certainly not. If he runs it will be by ignoring the Constitution, and at that point we’re legitimately in civil war territory.


> If he runs it will be by ignoring the Constitution

He's already done that—section 3 of the 14th amendment should have prohibited him from becoming president. It went to the Supreme Court, and they decided they didn't care. If the 14th amendment could be ignored, why not the 22nd?


Exactly. He is not going to and he will not.

By the next election and after his second term ends, we'll see that all the extremely wild claims of:

"Trump is ending the constitution!"

"This will be the last election if Trump wins!"

"Trump will be a dictator!"

"Civil war is going to happen under Trump!"

All of this repeated ad-nauseam, will be forgotten and dismissed as complete hysterical nonsense.




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