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HAB911

(8,811 posts)
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:44 AM Oct 2017

BREAKING! TRUMP MAY NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION

Another top GOP official has raised doubts about whether President Donald Trump will run for re-election.

Senator Rand Paul said on Sunday night that even though the president is raising millions for a 2020 campaign, Republicans should not assume he's running.

“There could well be a primary," the junior senator from Kentucky said on MSNBC, after being asked if a 2020 primary would be good for the Republican Party.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-2020-election-white-house-manafort-696089?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

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BREAKING! TRUMP MAY NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION (Original Post) HAB911 Oct 2017 OP
No shit Sherlock (GOP official)!!! Little Star Oct 2017 #1
I'm surprised he's lasted this long IronLionZion Oct 2017 #2
Amen to that! Scarsdale Oct 2017 #58
F*ck Rand Paul superpatriotman Oct 2017 #3
Also, Fuck Ron Paul n/m RhodeIslandOne Oct 2017 #19
Trump won't run just so he can keep all the cash! L. Coyote Oct 2017 #4
His goal all along, possibly. Orsino Oct 2017 #11
THIS BumRushDaShow Oct 2017 #16
Will that be his money or RNC's? nt Ilsa Oct 2017 #21
Its our money Hornedfrog1985 Oct 2017 #29
What a sweet vision! volstork Oct 2017 #42
That gets my vote! NT Ilsa Oct 2017 #49
Those re-election contributions are peanuts compared to the tax cut he is playing to get. If we NCjack Oct 2017 #32
You Sure? ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #45
He depresses the real estate market, buys stuff with huge losses on balance sheet, NCjack Oct 2017 #46
Then Tax Cuts Don't Matter ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #48
He gets tax reductions on on all income from properties before he wrecks NCjack Oct 2017 #50
Federal candidates can't keep campaign cash. former9thward Oct 2017 #40
We can bet it will go to GOP funding somewhere! n/t KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #57
Of course. former9thward Oct 2017 #59
Yes, but... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #67
Headline should be, "Trump My Not Be Able to Seek Re-Election" TlalocW Oct 2017 #5
Can you run for president from a federal prison cell? usaf-vet Nov 2017 #70
I think I've read of someone who did TlalocW Nov 2017 #72
So He's Raising Money Just To Pocket It? Me. Oct 2017 #6
Legal defense fund. He can't pocket it, but he can use it to pay lawyers. Thor_MN Oct 2017 #39
He'll run for reelection, all right Wednesdays Oct 2017 #7
Headline should read: RAND PAUL RUNNING IN 2020 emulatorloo Oct 2017 #8
He is raising millions for his bank account. dalton99a Oct 2017 #9
He cannot use those funds for personal use. demosincebirth Oct 2017 #13
They know how to massage and launder it BumRushDaShow Oct 2017 #18
And money from Eric's children's cancer charity. nt tblue37 Oct 2017 #30
+1 BumRushDaShow Oct 2017 #31
Gotcha. demosincebirth Oct 2017 #36
And I hear he is going sarisataka Oct 2017 #10
New nickname for DJT: LAME-DUCK TRUMP Louis1895 Oct 2017 #12
No more judicial confirmations. This is the last year of the tRump Presidency. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #14
Thumbs up! LMAO LiberalFighter Oct 2017 #33
DUH!!! Ferrets are Cool Oct 2017 #15
Do they allow campaigns from prison cells? Vinca Oct 2017 #17
I hope he thinks of himself as Nelson Mandella or Bobby Sands IronLionZion Oct 2017 #25
Shit smearing? ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #43
Yes they do. former9thward Oct 2017 #41
That is an understatement. Or a prison joke? Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #20
In other words: Back off, haters! This is only temporary! Let us slide for a few years... Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #22
Hmm, I WONDER what changed? joanbarnes Oct 2017 #23
Hard to get to campaign rallies relayerbob Oct 2017 #24
you mean he can run from prison? samnsara Oct 2017 #26
I hope he does re-run and get under 15% Doodley Oct 2017 #27
He's raising all that reelection money to make sure there's enough for his lawyers so he blueinredohio Oct 2017 #28
And the repug candidate's campaign will consist of: louis-t Oct 2017 #34
I could see him working out a perverse bargain where he pardons the crooks... SaschaHM Oct 2017 #35
He'd have to still be president in 2020, which he may not (n/t) Spider Jerusalem Oct 2017 #37
of course not he'll be bluestarone Oct 2017 #38
In what sort of lunatic parallel universe are these assholes living? ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #44
Can one run for president from a jail cell? George II Oct 2017 #47
President of cell block nine. Ohiya Oct 2017 #51
I know he breaks all the rules but it's impossible to run while in prison. ATL Ebony Oct 2017 #52
I don't think drumpf has to worry about running for a second term. democratisphere Oct 2017 #53
who get sthe money the sleazy moron has been hoovering up? pansypoo53219 Oct 2017 #54
Can he run his campaign from Russia? tclambert Oct 2017 #55
The GOPs best hope is that he DOESNT. nt 7962 Oct 2017 #56
Hard to run from a prison cell. Historic NY Oct 2017 #60
LOLOL! FLEE, YOU RAT BASTARD PIECE OF SHIT COWARDS! Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #61
I can't see how his health (mental or otherwise) holds up for another 3 years. n/t MrModerate Oct 2017 #62
They're hoping that if Trump announces he won't run again maybe all those Nitram Oct 2017 #63
Yes, but does he know it? bucolic_frolic Oct 2017 #64
he is literally already seeking re-election. he already filed the paperwork with the fec. unblock Oct 2017 #65
I just don't get people who WANT to believe this Cosmocat Nov 2017 #68
Rand Paul is NOT a major GOP official n/t TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #66
And here we have true Reich-wing Republicanism... Grins Nov 2017 #69
It would be hard to conduct a campaign while... NNadir Nov 2017 #71
RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION?!?! mdbl Nov 2017 #73

IronLionZion

(45,250 posts)
2. I'm surprised he's lasted this long
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:46 AM
Oct 2017

and am still hoping he doesn't make it through this year. That's all I want for Christmas is him gone.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
58. Amen to that!
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 07:13 AM
Oct 2017

He is fund raising for lawyer fees for himself and family. Besides, it is easier for him to be in front of his donors that in front of US citizens. I am sure I have plenty of company wishing that he is in prison by Christmas.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. Trump won't run just so he can keep all the cash!
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:49 AM
Oct 2017

Think about it, Don the Con is already campaigning while impeachment looms!

 

Hornedfrog1985

(118 posts)
29. Its our money
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 03:37 PM
Oct 2017

It needs to be seized as a government asset. Use trump tower for poor people. Low income housing for minorities should really piss them off. Get some photos of black homeless people pooping in his golden toilet

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
32. Those re-election contributions are peanuts compared to the tax cut he is playing to get. If we
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 03:52 PM
Oct 2017

can stop that, he has very little interest in continuing to be prez.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
45. You Sure?
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 08:38 PM
Oct 2017

First, there is little doubt that he's worth far less than advertised. Lower income means smaller tax cut.
Second, I'm not sure he's paying taxes now. 90% of zero is still zero
The lower net worth and the tax cheating are why we aren't going to see those tax returns

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
46. He depresses the real estate market, buys stuff with huge losses on balance sheet,
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 08:53 PM
Oct 2017

and pays for all with tax credits. Free stuff.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
48. Then Tax Cuts Don't Matter
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 09:04 PM
Oct 2017

Now his rich pals might be counting on it, but that slime ain't paying much in taxes now!

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
50. He gets tax reductions on on all income from properties before he wrecks
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 09:10 PM
Oct 2017

the real estate market with a huge tax cut.

former9thward

(31,798 posts)
40. Federal candidates can't keep campaign cash.
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 07:40 PM
Oct 2017

It is against the law. I know you will say "But he doesn't care abut the law!" The reason we know about how much he is raising is that he is complying with the law and reporting to the FEC. That cash can''t just disappear one day if he doesn't run again.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
67. Yes, but...
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:08 PM
Oct 2017

I would bet when it's all said and done, tRump will find ways to funnel part of it to some of his enterprises. Resorts and hotels are expensive to maintain, don't ya know!


emulatorloo

(43,979 posts)
8. Headline should read: RAND PAUL RUNNING IN 2020
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:53 AM
Oct 2017

"There could well be a primary." Even if Trump runs in 2020 he most likely will face a primary challenge imho.

BumRushDaShow

(127,251 posts)
18. They know how to massage and launder it
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 12:16 PM
Oct 2017

so that it doesn't appear to be for "personal use". Look at how he is handling his own facilities right now by having the government pay for people to stay there (SS, etc). Or how he funneled money from his "university" into his pockets.

sarisataka

(18,197 posts)
10. And I hear he is going
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:54 AM
Oct 2017

To turn down the nomination since he really doesn't want to be President.

Oh. Wait, that was last year...

former9thward

(31,798 posts)
41. Yes they do.
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 07:45 PM
Oct 2017

In 1920 the Socialist Party candidate, Eugene Debs, had been put in prison by President Wilson for opposing WW I. He got almost a million votes from his prison cell.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
22. In other words: Back off, haters! This is only temporary! Let us slide for a few years...
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 01:41 PM
Oct 2017

then we PROMISE we'll leave!

When has Trump ever left power on the table and walked away of his own volition?

relayerbob

(6,508 posts)
24. Hard to get to campaign rallies
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 02:53 PM
Oct 2017

from inside a prison cell. At least that's what many people are saying. Sad!

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
28. He's raising all that reelection money to make sure there's enough for his lawyers so he
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 03:19 PM
Oct 2017

doesn't have to pay any of it

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
35. I could see him working out a perverse bargain where he pardons the crooks...
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 05:57 PM
Oct 2017

and fires Mueller while ensuring the Republicans that he won't run again in 2020. Absent a crushing defeat during the midterms, this may be the justification that they need for inaction in such circumstances.

bluestarone

(16,720 posts)
38. of course not he'll be
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 07:23 PM
Oct 2017

standing on a corner playing an instrument with his hat turned upside down collecting

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
44. In what sort of lunatic parallel universe are these assholes living?
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 08:31 PM
Oct 2017

They will need to set up a TV monitor in the Senate with a streaming feed of Dotard's cell just to remind these morans that their god is behind bars for the rest of his life.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
53. I don't think drumpf has to worry about running for a second term.
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 09:15 PM
Oct 2017

I doubt he will make it through his first term with the way things are going.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
55. Can he run his campaign from Russia?
Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:24 PM
Oct 2017

Okay, that made me laugh, too. My point is Russia does not have an extradition treaty with the US of A. Neither does Saudi Arabia, and they seem to like Donald there. But it's full of Muslims and brown people, so I think he'd prefer to flee to Russia.

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
63. They're hoping that if Trump announces he won't run again maybe all those
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:18 AM
Oct 2017

scary investigations will go away. Ha!

unblock

(51,973 posts)
65. he is literally already seeking re-election. he already filed the paperwork with the fec.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:26 PM
Oct 2017

one could speculate that he'll drop out, sure, but it's demonstrably false to say he won't seek re-election.

he's already done it and is continuing to do it at this very moment.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
68. I just don't get people who WANT to believe this
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 08:03 AM
Nov 2017

There is literally nothing in his ACTIONS that show him doing anything but moving forward with his shit show.

Every time people start up with them wanting to think he will step down I tell them to watch the final scene in Scareface, cause that is going to be a lot closer to how this ends ...

Grins

(7,128 posts)
69. And here we have true Reich-wing Republicanism...
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:13 AM
Nov 2017
"If he (Trump) runs again I would support him..."

And there you have it. Today's Republican Party, all wrapped up with a bow on it!

Christie would support a man who record of accomplishment is a big fat zero, who has alienated huge swaths of Americans and all of America's allies, cozied up to some of the world's worst thugs, internally destroyed major American institutions, a demagogue with a dazzling unfitness for office, unprecedented ignorance, vindictiveness, mendacity, impulsive uncontrollable threats of mass annihilation, a despicable excuse for a human described by a Bush Republican, Michael Gerson, as "dangerously unstable, divisive, childish, nasty, deceptive, self-deluded, morally unfit, deeply unconservative and thus badly wrong on some of the largest issues of our time" - but Christie would still support him.

All that and I didn't even mention Russia, Manafort, Flynn, Sessions, etc.

And not just Christie, either. The 26%-ers and Neo-Nazi white supremacists will gladly overlook all that, too.

NNadir

(33,368 posts)
71. It would be hard to conduct a campaign while...
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 04:07 PM
Nov 2017

...wearing tiny handcuffs in a tiny prison cell.

No surprise there.

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