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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING! 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
Little Star
(17,055 posts)IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)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)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.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)And f*ck .45!
Lock him up.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Think about it, Don the Con is already campaigning while impeachment looms!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)He will not be giving back the money.
BumRushDaShow
(127,251 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Hornedfrog1985
(118 posts)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
volstork
(5,393 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)can stop that, he has very little interest in continuing to be prez.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)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)and pays for all with tax credits. Free stuff.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)Now his rich pals might be counting on it, but that slime ain't paying much in taxes now!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)the real estate market with a huge tax cut.
former9thward
(31,798 posts)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)former9thward
(31,798 posts)Just as money Clinton raised and wasn't spent will go to Democratic funding somewhere.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)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!
TlalocW
(15,358 posts)TlalocW
usaf-vet
(6,092 posts)Just asking....
How about from Gitmo?
TlalocW
(15,358 posts)Wasn't able to get on all state ballots though.
TlalocW
Me.
(35,454 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Wednesdays
(17,244 posts)From his prison cell.
emulatorloo
(43,979 posts)"There could well be a primary." Even if Trump runs in 2020 he most likely will face a primary challenge imho.
dalton99a
(81,062 posts)demosincebirth
(12,518 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,251 posts)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.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,251 posts)demosincebirth
(12,518 posts)sarisataka
(18,197 posts)To turn down the nomination since he really doesn't want to be President.
Oh. Wait, that was last year...
Louis1895
(768 posts)Has a nice ring to it!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,057 posts)Vinca
(50,168 posts)IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Yeah, I can picture him doing a lot that. Starvation protesting, though, I do not see.
former9thward
(31,798 posts)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.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)then we PROMISE we'll leave!
When has Trump ever left power on the table and walked away of his own volition?
joanbarnes
(1,715 posts)relayerbob
(6,508 posts)from inside a prison cell. At least that's what many people are saying. Sad!
samnsara
(17,569 posts)Doodley
(8,976 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)doesn't have to pay any of it
louis-t
(23,199 posts)"I'm NOT Trump".
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)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.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)standing on a corner playing an instrument with his hat turned upside down collecting
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)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.
George II
(67,782 posts)Ohiya
(2,207 posts)The best cell block!
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)I doubt he will make it through his first term with the way things are going.
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)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.
7962
(11,841 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Nitram
(22,663 posts)scary investigations will go away. Ha!
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)Already re-elected in his own mind - is there a diagnosis for that?
unblock
(51,973 posts)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)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 ...
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)Grins
(7,128 posts)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)...wearing tiny handcuffs in a tiny prison cell.
No surprise there.
mdbl
(4,972 posts)I hope he'll be trying for early parole.