Trump may not, but many in inner circle accept defeat

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

What we're hearing: Top Trump advisers sat the president down at the White House on Saturday and walked him through the "options for success," a campaign official tells me.

The official added that they made clear to Trump the likely outcome of waging these legal battles, but he was firm that he wants to forge ahead anyway.

One source who recently spoke to the president tells Axios' Jonathan Swan that even Trump has discussed the possibility of not winning. He has accepted that losing may be an outcome but insists on pursuing what he claims is mass fraud.

Several of his close advisers, including social media guru Dan Scavino and personnel director Johnny McEntee, are egging him on.


Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-defeat-inner-circle-3ed6ab0f-677d-4dce-a2d0-e348e38b74c9.html

[LearnedHand]

1. Well, if he's spending money on that

Maybe he’ll go broke faster? Maybe he won’t think to spend it on the R senate candidates in GA?

[thinkingagain]

2. That's just it who's money

Will he be spending?
If it’s his or the republicans party money
Great less $ for other repubs
But if it’s our money then that sucks.

[LearnedHand]

3. True dat

[getagrip_already]

8. he has no money, his campaign has no money....

And the big donors sure as shit aren't going to give him any.

So the only money to spend is whats left in gop coffers.

BUT, that doesn't mean deep pockets will walk away from the senate races. They will be awash in money. Every gop door is going to be knocked on again and again. People with ballot applications will help the republican voters fill them out and return them, then return to harvest them.

In person. Every door. RThat will be the race. Gird for it. If we don't go door to door, we won't stand a chance. imho of course.

[Withywindle]

19. He doesn't have any money. Not real money.

And as soon as he's out of office, Deutsche Bank will call in their multimillion-dollar debt. And that is the LEAST scary entity Trump owes money to.

[dubyadiprecession]

4. So, will he go out in a "Jonestown" way or will it be his "last days in a bunker" scenario?

[Withywindle]

20. I'd prefer "sleeping rough on Skid Row" way

Considering how sadistic he's always been to the poor (and by "the poor" he means everyone who wasn't born rich), especially in NYC, I'd honestly like to see him staggering around on mass transit wrapped in a foul-smelling blanket begging for money to eat.

Probably won't happen, but I enjoy the fantasy.

[lordsummerisle]

5. What legal cases could they have at this point? n/t

[Polybius]

12. There only hope is that the SC tosses all early voting

But on what basis I don't know.

[Native]

6. Of course they'll drag this out - it's a money maker for them.

One last chance to fleece their supporters.

[Blue Owl]

7. tRump's little circle jerk

Already turning into a circle joke

[deurbano]

9. I would have hoped for a less Trumpian reaction, but he is who he is. Maybe this will keep him

too distracted to focus on maximum destructive impact before exiting.

[Roy Rolling]

10. CorporateSpeak

“Options for Success”

They should have read them a children’s book “How the Cow Ate the Cabbage”.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. They've really lost their edge - no attribution to the Deep State

Total incompetence, all the time.

[BlueWavePsych]

13. The stench of death is getting stronger.

[tclambert]

14. Donald! The evidence of mass voter fraud is hidden right next to . . .

Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

[turbinetree]

15. well I got a plan turn off the water and the electricity take away the keys from everything......

chang e the locks and make him ride his golf cart to New York to have a gag fest with the attorney general...................///////////// /

[NYC Liberal]

16. Good thing Trump doesn't have to accept it.

He can spend the rest of his days shouting into the wind about fraud and hoaxes and cheating. It won't change the fact that on January 20, 2021, he'll be a private citizen out on his ass with no more legal power than you or me.

[yuiyoshida]

17. MAYBE THEY SHOULD tell him its "ALIENS!"

Not from across the border, but across the Universe.... Sorry Mr. President, you just can't fuck with space aliens, uh figuratively speaking.

[Skittles]

18. how to send out resumes while pretending to be onboard

[japple]

21. I'll bet he's already trying to make a deal with his friend--MBS

for assylum near a golf course in Saudi Arabia.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Keep tRump busy with this so he is not making trouble other ways. . . . nt

[Illumination]

23. Is there not a single ounce of goodness in his heart & intelligence in his mind?...

[Steelrolled]

24. He will eventually concede.

I have no problem letting it play out in courts. It won't take long, and we can wait. It will show the strength of the system, just as four years of Trump showed us the strength of our system of government.

[ffr]

25. THEN DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS, ASSHOLES!!! RELEASE THE GSA FUNDS

for president-elect Biden. YOU do not get to chose when that happens. The president-elect is entitled to the funds WE the taxpayers have already set aside for that.

DO YOU JOBS!