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Trump Fears That His Influence Is Waning
The president is plotting retribution. Not just because hes mad about his election loss. But because he wants to keep folks in line.As his days in office come to a close, President Donald Trump has hinted to those close to him that hes worried his influence within Republican circles may be waning.
Fearful of party stalwarts growing comfortable crossing him, the president has pushed to keep up the pressure and plot possible revenge scenarios against potential turncoats, according to three people who spoke to him as he unwound at Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere over the holiday weekend.
Why arent they just listening [to me]? one of the sources recalled Trump asking during a diatribe against prominent GOPers who the president felt werent fighting for him on his current battle lines: from nullifying the 2020 election outcome, to torpedoing liability law for Big Tech, to sending out $2,000 checks for COVID-19 relief.
The comments came during Trumps Christmas getaway in Florida this past weekend and for those who heard them they were some of the clearest indications to date that the president has reached an inflection point. Outwardly insistent that he was robbed of a re-election victory, he has privately groused that too many in his party are acknowledging the reality of his actual loss and showing signs of tiptoeing away from him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fears-that-his-influence-is-waning
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Trump Fears That His Influence Is Waning (Original Post)
Zorro
Dec 2020
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marylandblue
(12,344 posts)1. When the lame duck discovers he is lame.
Thekaspervote
(32,491 posts)2. Go away little donnie...you're done
Americans are moving on thank god!!
spooky3
(34,231 posts)3. "Everybody loves a winner, but when you lose
You lose alone.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. shithole and his cult which also includes the republican party . ..
have proven that do not want a democracy and will physically commit harm.
RKP5637
(67,008 posts)5. They don't want to be associated with a LOSER! n/t
C_U_L8R
(44,872 posts)6. Rosebud.
regnaD kciN
(26,033 posts)8. Losing one's election tends to do that...
...and Donnie is suffering from a full-blown case of electoral dysfunction.
poor little Donnie. Losing some of the idiots that backed him. Wheres my tiny violin when I need it.
pfitz59
(10,170 posts)10. A Face in the Crowd
that no one looks toward anymore...
Gothmog
(143,654 posts)11. trump will fade away after he leaves office
twitter may cancel his acocunt