No one’s going to ask him anything.
Well, no one that isn't labeled fake news anyway
He doesn’t have to face these questions if he drops out.
He can't drop out, being President is the only thing that can keep him from going to jail.
Well that’s not very cash money of him.
trump is a gambler. he's committed to the play to the end.
the only way he drops out is if the net of the backdeal is worth more to him personally than "winning".
not sure there is much to distract him from the biggest win of all.
Staying out of jail?
nope, not unless he knows hes going to fail at the presidency.
he has goons and civil unrest / domestic terrorism in his backpocket.
Yeah but he’s a complete psychopath. I don’t think he’s going to let go of his movement until he’s in the ground. Even if he’s convicted and thrown into prison, I fully expect him and his surrogates to continue bleating about nonsense and trying to do coups. He opened Pandora’s box, unfortunately, and I don’t think that it’s going to be closed for a long time, if ever.
And I don’t see him accepting a pardon deal, because he’s a giant fucking child. Or being granted one, for that matter, because only a complete idiot would think he’d keep his word and abide by the letter and spirit of the agreement, and Kamala is a lot of things, but she’s not an idiot.
I think the one thing that may have disuaded him was actual jailtime before the election.
everyone had to make their calculations on how best to deal with him, politically, in a courtroom and they all came down on the side of caution. honestly, given the stakes, thats not unreasonable at all.
now we have octogenarian who has still never received an appropriate consequence and is now deeply messianic. if (when!) this SoB looses, is when he makes his last bid - pardon, or I start the civil unrest.
thats my current take at least.
Yep, that’s more or less my read on it too.
I will say that the extent to which he has been treated with kid gloves (for various reasons - some reasonable, some extremely dumb, some as a result of outright corruption and obvious quid pro quo arrangements) is deeply infuriating.
Or if he just changes the subject to talk about the RADICAL LEFT
Trump fans never actually cared about bidens age. Biden at his most senile still runs circles around Trump intellectually. They will suddenly stop caring about age limits and move onto dei or something.
Trump does not possess the moral capacity required to willingly step down.
Better for us if the orange dipshit stays in and we have a coherent human running against him. Not dogging Biden - he's just not great in front of a camera.
A better president than candidate
Trump is acute like that old joke about Russian and American bombs.
America built a 500 foot radius bomb and when it missed the target by 600 feet they spent 200 million (used to be a lot) to improve targeting accuracy by 20%... the soviets just added on 30% more explosive potential.
Trump just spews 60% more bullshit than he did in 2020 to try and make sure some of it hits... and most of it is bullshit about windmills causing cancer.
Trump acuity? Can you even have those two words in the same sentence? Without a strong negative somewhere, I mean?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With 78-year-old Donald Trump now certain to face a Democratic candidate younger than he is, the Republican could have the tables turned on him over the questions of age and mental agility that he often sidestepped while Joe Biden was his opponent.
The age gap between Trump and any of his likely Democrat opponents – Kamala Harris, 59; Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, 52; Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, 51 – could make him the sole focus of voters’ desire for a generational handover of power.
And with Biden’s often stumbling public appearances – and especially his disastrous debate – now a thing of the past, there is likely to be a fresh focus on Trump’s mental acuity and his frequently rambling, confused campaign speeches.
Previously he has made high-profile campaign trail gaffes, in which he seemed to think Barack Obama was still president and mistook his arch Republican rival Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi.
But that pledge dissolved on Saturday when he returned to disparaging Biden, Harris and the Democratic agenda and has been delivering his usual rants on the campaign trail, often laced with conspiracy theories and even a repeated and bizarre reference to a shark.
“Democrats will be able to use Harris as an offensive chess piece in the suburbs of the country, women’s right to chose and reproductive freedom, and hope that Trump screws up by overreacting so they can accuse him of bring incapable of controlling himself because of his age,” Sheinkopf said, “and it becomes a different race.”
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