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Wicked Blue

(5,832 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:32 AM Nov 2020

Trump aides plotting an 'intervention' to tell him he has no hope of winning: CNN's Kaitlan Collins

Raw Story
Published 1 min ago
on November 6, 2020
By Brad Reed

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins said on Friday that White House aides are having discussions about how to stage an “intervention” with President Donald Trump to tell him he has no hope of winning a second term.

Collins said that the aides were plotting an intervention because Trump is still in total denial about losing the 2020 vote to Democratic rival Joe Biden.

“I’m actually being told by sources that, in recent days, the president has said he has no plans to concede this election to Joe Biden, even if his path to victory is effectively blocked, which it could be by a Biden win in Pennsylvania or in somewhere like Georgia,” she said. “But despite that the president has said that he has no plans to concede this election as he has continued to push this baseless claim that the election is being stolen from him.”

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“That creates this conversation about who is going to be the person that’s going to reckon with the president and tell him that his time in office could be coming to an end,” she said. “That’s a conversation that I’m told the president’s allies are still having, they’re not sure who that person is going to be. They’ve talked about Jared Kushner, someone like an Ivanka Trump, but they haven’t figured out who it is to bring the president to terms with reality.”

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Trump aides plotting an 'intervention' to tell him he has no hope of winning: CNN's Kaitlan Collins (Original Post) Wicked Blue Nov 2020 OP
"They've talked about Jared Kushner, someone like an Ivanka Trump" Voltaire2 Nov 2020 #1
Princesska Jarvanka. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2020 #5
I'll do it! Pick me! Pick meeee! Girard442 Nov 2020 #2
Hahahahahahaha. No, me!! MomInTheCrowd Nov 2020 #6
LOL underpants Nov 2020 #7
I volunteer! calimary Nov 2020 #43
He doesn't have to concede. Just load him up on a trolly and wheel him out of there. tanyev Nov 2020 #3
Send Mary Trump... Pachamama Nov 2020 #4
Perfect. MomInTheCrowd Nov 2020 #9
I'd fear for her safety Wicked Blue Nov 2020 #11
This will help keep us all safe... Pachamama Nov 2020 #19
Send in the Marines. L.Pharmstrong Nov 2020 #39
Just ghost him. MerryBlooms Nov 2020 #8
HA! Roland99 Nov 2020 #33
Maybe it will happen in stages: no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 #10
Sounds like they're talking about a Cha Nov 2020 #12
Toddler needs a nice warm bottle of milk and tranquilizers nt Wicked Blue Nov 2020 #16
lollololol Cha Nov 2020 #18
Diaper his head. calimary Nov 2020 #42
Benedryl should do the trick AwakeAtLast Nov 2020 #44
Or an addict who's hit rock bottom and needs an intervention gratuitous Nov 2020 #24
Yeah, Get Psycho to Rehab STAT! Cha Nov 2020 #29
They really should make a video of the event, for posterity, and for fun! n/t Judi Lynn Nov 2020 #13
Maybe Timewas Nov 2020 #14
You can see where this is going ScratchCat Nov 2020 #15
No hurry. I want to watch him squirm for a while. MineralMan Nov 2020 #17
I'd go for that Catherine Vincent Nov 2020 #27
That would be nothing short of EXQUISITE! calimary Nov 2020 #41
It would have to include Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs Poiuyt Nov 2020 #20
Guessing not after the counts are finished. The Republican leadership is Hortensis Nov 2020 #31
Exclusive to DU: Leaked video of WH intervention. Hugin Nov 2020 #21
Narcissistic psychopaths live in their own realities Progressive dog Nov 2020 #21
They should just save it and invoke the 25th amendment. D23MIURG23 Nov 2020 #23
Oh, so those enabling aides, who filled the delusional lunatic's head ... Tracer Nov 2020 #25
Now commences the biggest round of rock, paper, scissors. Nevilledog Nov 2020 #26
He really is as stupid as he is corrupt. Native Nov 2020 #28
Need to get Don Jr. sedated. nature-lover Nov 2020 #30
someone give him a baby bottle of warm milk and sedatives too Wicked Blue Nov 2020 #32
Oh heck, throw in some laxatives for flavor. nature-lover Nov 2020 #34
If he's watching TV, he already knows. GreatCaesarsGhost Nov 2020 #35
INTERVENTION! Roland99 Nov 2020 #36
I say they all quit and ditch him Zing Zing Zingbah Nov 2020 #37
Think of the White House, please! Wicked Blue Nov 2020 #38
If he has a melt down Zing Zing Zingbah Nov 2020 #40

Voltaire2

(13,023 posts)
1. "They've talked about Jared Kushner, someone like an Ivanka Trump"
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:35 AM
Nov 2020

I never thought of that but now that I have, Jared is sort of an Ivanka.

Wicked Blue

(5,832 posts)
11. I'd fear for her safety
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:38 AM
Nov 2020

Orange Traitor might fling poop at her.

Interesting that Melania isn't being considered to break the news to him.

no_hypocrisy

(46,094 posts)
10. Maybe it will happen in stages:
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:38 AM
Nov 2020

1. Trump trash talks about going directly to the USSC. Nothing happens.

2. Trump starts talking about his "second term." Nothing happens.

3. Trump takes a pause.

4. Trump no longer talks about going to court but doesn't concede.

5. Trump makes mayhem from the Oval Office in reaction to losing.

6. Trump leaves DC in the middle of the night before January 20, to Mar-A-Lago. He will not appear at the Inauguration.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
24. Or an addict who's hit rock bottom and needs an intervention
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:47 AM
Nov 2020

"Donald, you know we all love you and have your best interests at heart. But you have to see how your addiction is hurting yourself and your family." What the hell is that?! I'm not saying that to that fat fuck!

Change it around a little; really, though, it works. I've done lots of these interventions.

Do I have to say I love him? He's gonna know that's a lie.

ScratchCat

(1,988 posts)
15. You can see where this is going
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:39 AM
Nov 2020

"Undisclosed medical condition"..."classified"....."resign"...."pardon"....

Putin already gave him the sign.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
17. No hurry. I want to watch him squirm for a while.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:41 AM
Nov 2020

I want to see him break down, physically and mentally, live and on my TV.

Poiuyt

(18,123 posts)
20. It would have to include Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:43 AM
Nov 2020

They are the people he goes to for advice. Of course, I think they'd still be fanning the flames.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
31. Guessing not after the counts are finished. The Republican leadership is
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:55 AM
Nov 2020

abandoning Trump, happy with what they've salvaged from this election and that the time for them to dump Trump has finally arrived. Trump's calls to them for help are mostly going unanswered.

Fox will posture whatever degree of loyalty is necessary to satisfy their viewers, and to wring whatever advantage they still can from Trump, such as using his troubles to rally passion against Democrats, but neither they nor their viewers like losers.

Progressive dog

(6,900 posts)
21. Narcissistic psychopaths live in their own realities
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:44 AM
Nov 2020

Trump is barely capable of pretending to listen to anyone. Those gutless sycophants will never dare tell him the truth.
I expect his aides to continue plotting to overturn the election results, not plotting to confront him with the truth.

D23MIURG23

(2,850 posts)
23. They should just save it and invoke the 25th amendment.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:47 AM
Nov 2020

Throw the bum out by surprise and let Pence handle the lame duck period.

Tracer

(2,769 posts)
25. Oh, so those enabling aides, who filled the delusional lunatic's head ...
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 10:50 AM
Nov 2020

... with happy talk about winning --- are now trying to figure out how to tell him he has lost.

Maybe all that happy talk was the wrong plan. Ya think?

Wicked Blue

(5,832 posts)
38. Think of the White House, please!
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 11:16 AM
Nov 2020

Poop on all the walls. Smashed china. Bite marks on the furniture.

The mind boggles are what he could do.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
40. If he has a melt down
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 11:17 AM
Nov 2020

Maybe that will turn off some of his supporters. It certainly won't help his case anyhow.

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