Give us more time, and money
Trump intends to sulk as long as he can get away with it.
The president, who has spent months trying to undermine the election results with unproven allegations of fraud, pledged on Saturday to go forward with a legal strategy that he hopes will overturn state results that gave Biden the win in Tuesday’s vote.
Not gonna happen.
The president’s allies and advisers privately admitted that the former New York businessman’s chances of overturning the election results and staying in the White House were slim. While preparing for an eventual concession, they called for time to let the legal challenges run their course.
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Republicans are trying to raise at least $60 million to fund legal challenges in several states, alleging foul play and seeking donations, sources told Reuters. More than half of the money raised would go to paying down the campaign’s debts, the fine print on email and text solicitations says.
Thieves and cheats to the last.
“He should make sure every vote is counted and demand transparency. That puts him on solid rhetorical grounds,” said another former White House official.
No it doesn’t. His behavior is not normal. This is not what losing candidates normally do.
Republicans outside the White House warned that Trump could tarnish his legacy if he does not eventually make a graceful exit, and erode his future political power. “It will be impossible for him to run again in 2024 if he’s seen as a sore loser,” a Congressional Republican source said.
Will it? Everybody knows he’s a sore loser; he throws tantrums every five minutes.
“President Trump is entitled to take the time he wants to absorb this. It was close and it’s not productive to demand an immediate concession,” said Ari Fleischer, who was a White House press secretary in the George W. Bush administration.
No he’s not. He’s not a toddler who broke his balloon, he’s an adult man with every advantage, unfair as well as fair, and he’s throwing a public tantrum because he lost. He’s “entitled” to jack shit.
“The best thing to keep this country together is to give the president a reasonable period of time to accept the results.”
What would that be? Ten years? Twenty? During which he refuses to leave?
The president gets a reasonable time to go back to Manhattan, and that’s it.
Ha. Nice little flashback to 2016, when every week brought a new round of “well, I’d like to see Donald Trump wriggle his way out of this! This will finish him politically… ah. I see. Never mind.”
And the award for the one-liner of the year goes to…
Tarnish his legacy!
Seriously though, if he has left any kind of legacy it’s one celebrated only by the racists, the money-grubbers and the hatemongers, and the only way he could tarnish it in their eyes would be to stop being Trump. By remaining the belligerent, angry, hate-filled arsehole he’s always been he is in fact protecting his legacy.
AoS, I suspect what they mean by that is that he could reveal the Republican party to be the greedy soreheads they really are, because they’ve gone along with him for so long. Reveal to whom, I do not know, since those of us who are not Republicans already know that, and those who are Republicans don’t care.
He already has until January 20, which is vastly more than any head of government has in any other nation. Suck it up, fucking baby.
The only thing that will stop a Trump 20/24 bid for re-election from happening will be if he’s sitting in a jail cell in New York. I hope the grand jury is convened mid-inauguration.
Now fair crack of the whip. Trump probably thinks Grace and Composure are a couple of call girls; literally at his beck and call.
Or if he’s no longer alive.
I’m more worried that Junior will run.
Don’t really think Donny Jr. has the same level of char-isn’t-ma… Daddy is special.
I thought a concession speech was one of the simplest tasks.
1. Thank the American people for the honour of serving them.
2. Wish your successor well.
3. God Bless America.
Done and dusted.
Also, never go into business with your family. His son-in-law was campaign manager, his son’s girlfriend chief fund raiser. That means the blame game turns into a huge family row.
Trump only knows contempt and antagonism, we cannot expect otherwise from him. The insidious thing about him is that he inspires contempt and antagonism in others, in irregular and unhealthy proportions. Not only does Trump need to go away, but so does the malignancy of Trumpism and it’s thoroughly poisoned adherents.
Also his crowdfund for legal expenses contains fine print diverting 60% of the funds to campaign expenses. Grifter to the last.
Hopefully he can be countersued for frivolous lawsuits. He would have to concede the election and drop the lawsuits both, but being who he is, he will do neither. A complete lack of character, but we already knew this.
@Freemag #5
The only thing that will stop a Trump 20/24 bid for re-election from happening will be if he’s sitting in a jail
cell in New York. I hope the grand jury is convened mid-inauguration.
Eugene V. Debs says hi. Not that Debs was anything like Trump.
“Republicans outside the White House warned that Trump could tarnish his legacy”
Good time to implore everyone of you who still owns a functioning irony meter that you need to unplug it immediately and place it in a Faraday cage at the bottom of a deep mine shaft until further notice.
For all the talk about recounts, the Trump campaign has not pledged the $3 million dollars yet to pay for it. So it’s just hot air.
The recount in Wisconsin, FYI.
By now, I’d have thought that people would deal with Trump the way some cab drivers deal with late-night customers wanting to be taken more than a couple of miles: pay upfront or GTFO.
Good god, I hadn’t even considered the possibility that he’d run again.
Just when I’d shaken off that ever-present feeling of existential dread…
THANKS GANG
I don’t think shit tarnishes. His legacy can’t be tarnished.
KBP
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A bit risky. Trump would probably read that out aloud as point #4. Then you would be sacked in favour of another speechwriter, however short-term the contract; amidst a whole pile of busted White House furniture and crockery; drapes down on the floor; stuff like that.