'We have to do it," former President Donald Trump says of potential 2024 White House run
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Via: john-russell • 3 years ago • 8 commentsBy: The Washington (masslive)
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FILE - Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Orlando. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP
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Former President Donald Trump suggested again this weekend that he was likely to make another White House run in 2024, according to a speech to Republican donors obtained by The Washington Post.
"I wonder who that might be," he quipped Saturday about the next potential GOP presidential nominee, with the Post reporting that the crowd responded by chanting his name.
Trump spoke at length in the New Orleans Four Seasons hotel, reiterating false claims that he won in 2020. Bipartisan local, state and federal officials, even Trump-appointed judges and Trump's own attorney general and Department of Homeland Security leaders, say there was no widespread fraud or irregularities impacting the race won by President Joe Biden.
"We've already won two presidential elections," Trump claimed without presenting evidence of a second victory. "And now I feel obligated that we have to really look strongly at doing it again. We are looking at it very, very strongly. We have to do it. We have to do it."
Trump's comments mirrored those from his speech a few weeks ago at the the Conservative Political Action Conference.
"On November 2024, they will find out like never before," Trump told the Orlando crowd last month. "We did it twice and we'll do it again, we're going to be doing it again a third time."
Biden has faced dwindled approval ratings since taking office in 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Afghanistan withdrawal and rising inflation often cited by pollsters as leading concerns among voters.
The White House points to millions of jobs gained over the last year and Biden's signature of a bipartisan infrastructure package, a bill that should see at least $9 billion go toward Massachusetts infrastructure projects.
Biden's approval rating may have seen a bounce since his State of the Union address last week, with NPR reporting that a strong majority of Americans, including Republicans, support his tough sanctions on Russia over President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked attack on Ukraine.
Amid the run up to the 2022 midterms, Trump on Saturday continued his practice of roasting several establishment Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom he painted as insufficiently loyal to him.
"We're doing great as a party," he argued. "The Republican Party is now a fighting party. We are now a winning party. We are never going back to what it was before. It was heading in the wrong direction."
The former president also weighed in on Russia's attack on Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that's been independent since 1991.
According to the Post, Trump joked that the U.S. should place Chinese flags on its F-22 planes and "bomb the s*** out of Russia."
"And then we say, China did it, we didn't do it, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch," he added.
The crowd of about 250 donors laughed, the Post reported.
Trump, who in 2007 wrote to Putin to congratulate him for being named TIME Magazine's "Man of the Year" — "I am a big fan of yours!" Trump wrote — claimed the Kremlin leader would not have invaded his sovereign neighbor if he still sat in the White House.
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Unless he's in jail or on his deathbed Trump will run, and win the GOP nomination.
We can know this because he is a diseased narcissist who must be the center of attention and a presidential run will keep him in that position. No way he is giving up the spotlight to Ron DeSantis. Trump would sooner destroy DeSantis, which he will do by incessantly lying about him.
How can he be permitted to run again? As he said, "We've already won two presidential elections,", and I thought that was a Constitutional limit. s/ (Was that "s/" really necessary?)
Now that I think of it, he would probably answer that although he won a second term, he didn't serve it, so he's still entitled.
He has only served one term at this point, so he is eligible to run again.
Can someone PLEASE put some oil and grease on the Wheels of Justice?
Biden would whoop Trump by twenty million votes...
This claim is not merely false — it is patently absurd. One would have to be mentally deficient to actually believe that Trump legitimately won the presidency in 2020.
Well, if there's any good news in that..I suppose we can be grateul that we don't have any of those sorts of mental defectives here on NT!