Twice acquitted, Trump possesses many options to reinvigorate MAGA after White House
By: John Solomon
Trump 2024! It’s time to MAGA again. Trump has been exonerated and Trumpism vindicated. Trump will reinvigorate the GOP and the voting base of the party will triumph over the stupid establishment. He will be behind the GOP take over of the house and the senate in 2022. He will find a voice in social media whether he creates his own or greatly expands Parler, Gab, and Rumble by his and his followers presence there. Lastly he will run for President in 2024 or anoint the one who does. Our multiracial middle and working class coalition of nationalist populist libertarians and conservatives will only grow stronger. We love Trump!
Twice acquitted, Trump possesses many options to reinvigorate MAGA after White House
Ex-president's proclamation that movement "has only just begun" has many guessing what’s next.
Two days removed from his second impeachment acquittal, former President Donald Trump was returning from a day of golf when he was greeted by a throng of flag-waving fans as he neared his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The President's Day scene in West Palm Beach, Fla., which included jubilant supporters with signs that declared "Trump won," even impressed Dan Scavino, a veteran of many of his boss' sold-out rallies. "This is unbelievable," the longtime aide tweeted Monday.
The spontaneous event was a not-so-subtle reminder that the Twitter-banished, twice-impeached 45th president remains a continuing force inside the GOP. Anyone who thinks otherwise does so at their own peril.
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Shortly after the Senate voted Saturday to acquit him, Trump sent out a cryptic message making clear he has little intention of fading into history like most former presidents.
"Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun," he declared. "In the months ahead, I have much to share with you."
What will he share and do? It's a question many inside the MAGA movement are asking. Just the News interviewed a dozen people close to the former president and came up with a menu of likely options for the man many now just call "45."
The first and most obvious option is for Trump to try to become the 47th president in four years, winning back the White House. With more than 80% of Republicans still supporting him and a majority favoring him as the 2024 GOP nominee even after impeachment, Trump has a clear path back to the campaign trail if he chooses.
But it is hardly the only option. And long before he must decide, he has the opportunity for significant impact.
One option is to build up the GOP's war coffers and candidate field to win back Congress in 2022, something that Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) favors as a starting point.
"You know, he's ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party," Graham said Sunday. "He's excited about 2022."
Building a well-funded political action committee and rallying behind the House and Senate candidates most supportive of Trump's populist message is one potential avenue, an idea House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has already begun talking with Trump about.
And if Trump is looking for somewhere to start, he's got a potential candidate close to home. Daughter-in-law Lara Trump is garnering lots of attention as a potential senate candidate in North Carolina in 2022.
Graham talked about unifying the GOP, and one way Trump may do so in his own unique way is to target never-Trumpers in the 2022 primaries, seeking to increase his hold over the party by replacing intra-party opponents with loyalists. The 17 House and Senate Republicans who supported his impeachment and conviction would be on that list, starting at the top with the likes of Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming and Rep. Joe Rice of South Carolina.
If Trump is calculating, he can make his point about loyalty and solidarity inside the GOP by focusing his wrath on anti-Trump Republicans in safe districts and states and avoid those in swing states or districts where a sudden change could hurt GOP chances in the general election.
The former president could also use a PAC or other nonprofit institutions to build out the messaging for his distinctively populist and working-class movement, drawing clear policy distinctions with the Biden administration on economic and security issues and highlighting the painful consequences of early Biden decisions on traditional Democratic constituencies.
For instance, Trump could highlight the union jobs killed by Biden's closure of the Keystone pipeline or the impact of a Democratic minimum wage hike on small business owners, who increasingly include Latinos and blacks.
As a victim of cancel culture and censorship, Trump could also deal devastating blows to the Big Tech oligarchs who have silenced him and opposed his agenda. There have been reports he's considering starting his own social media platforms.
But an easier and quicker way for Trump to build a new conservative ecosystem would be for him to use his clout to sway tens of millions of his fans to leave Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and send them to create new accounts on the fast-emerging free-speech platforms of Parler, CloutHub and Rumble. That way he can leave the tech headaches to experts while solving a major problem for conservatives through market disruption.
There also remains a "nuclear option" for Trump should establishment Republicans like Mitch McConnell try to pull the party to their side, creating a triangulated GOP.
In that scenario, Trump could upgrade his PAC to a new political party like the so-called Patriot Party and run on a new ticket in 2024. The danger of that option, however, is that it could split the conservative vote and give Democrats an easy win in 2024, much as Ross Perot ate into George H.W. Bush's vote and paved the way for Bill Clinton's victory in 1992.
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That is foolish, irresponsible and futile thinking. Find a good candidate instead of supporting a well proven malignant narcissist and pathological liar.
Not on this planet.
Yes he has here and now! Trump is a great American patriot who puts America First!
He seems really excited about a twice impeached single term POTUS. A man who is personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths due to his refusal to deal with a deadly pandemic ravaging the country he was sworn to protect.
He dealt with it a lot better than that sleepy perverted Jack ass that is our current President is dealing with it.
How?
Someone the rest of consider scum.
We know that he was never guilty and that the trumped up charge was a ludicrous one.
Of course he is guilty!
No, he’s not. He simply engaged in protected speech the content of which was similar to the tone that many democrat politicians use. He never came close to the constitutional threshold for incitement.
Yes, he is guilty of incitement.
Murders use guns which are similar to police weapons as well. The intent seems to matter though.
No, he’s not. The constitutional protections of speech is very high and nothing according to incitement case law precedent in his speech can close to those thresholds. Also we now know that the riot was planned days ahead of time and that you can’t incite something others had already planned to do and we’re doing it while he was still speaking.
If 100 people plot to engage in an insurrection, and your speech incites 1,000 more people to join them, you're guilty.
The event happened while the President was still speaking to his people over a mile away.
That's false, but everyone knows it already.
You constantly defend the indefensible. Everyone knows that already, too.
He will be relaxing two years after completing his term as our 47th President!
My posted picture is satire, trump and his family will never cease to be a danger to our democracy till the day each is dead.
Considering that Baron is 14 that will be a long time! Lara Trump could be a US Senator from North Carolina after the 2022 election.
At least Baron has lots of time. Perhaps He will not be like his father. Perhaps Baron will have some morals.
I always at least try to be optimistic.
At that point he'll be behind bars or dead. Either way, good end result.
By then he will have been out of office for two years after having served us as President #47!
Cell block President
Predictable classless response from Trump. Supporting this miserable human being for PotUS is irrational.
I expect nothing less at this point. A disgusting human being.
I knew he would attack McConnell, even though he is hard right. There is no way he would have let it go. In all actuality, donald should be thanking McConnell as if not for him, he wouldn't have accomplished a lot of what he did.
Cross Trump once and he throws you under the bus. I have been surprised at how some (many) never seem to learn that lesson.
Look how many smokers had to die from cancer, before most learned smoking could kill them as well.
Yea its sad, but trump would never betray ME...
I'll bet many of his rally/mob who broke the law are having second thoughts.
trump always leaves a trail of tears in his wake
About the Republicans' circular firing squad? With pleasure!
Although, McConnell was right, of course. Trump is going to answer for his crimes.
I'm surprised that some who have actually been thrown under that bus still supported him. Like Bannon for example.
I also hold Mitch McConnell accountable also for the events of 1/6/21
... and Cruz and Rubio and McCain's best buddy Graham (after Trump had been so cruel to McCain).
Well I understand that "Little Marco" felt that the continued impeachment process after Trump's term had ended was unconstitutional, but so did a few other constitutional experts. Other than that I never really thought that Rubio cared much at all for Trump who he accurately called a "con artist" on several occasions after Trump gained the nomination. And other than calling him "Little Marco", not really sure that Trump threw Rubio under the bus as it were.
Cruz has always been one of those career politicians who seems to just follow the crowd at chowtime. His stances change depending on which way he thinks the political winds are blowing at any given moment. Not uncommon among the career politician types. And again, not really sure Trump ever tossed "Lying Ted" under the bus except during the primaries.
After hearing Trump repeat the childish name-calling of all his rivals during the primaries over and over, I was really kinda pulling for one of them to call him "Fat Dumb-Fuck Donald" or "Donald Fuck" for short. Although really tough to beat Jon Stewart's nick-name for him "Fuckface Von Clownstick". (-:
Left, right and center Americans are sick of Trump!
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Haha. Sorry, couldn't resist.
The former occupant of the White House is going to spend the rest of his days dodging subpoenas! Sweet!
Nope. He’s going to operate a PAC, get involved in the 2022 election cycle and get back on social media for now.