Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

Sean Whelan said on Six-One just now that donors and ex-candidates are supporting Trump because, if you make an enemy of him, he comes back to 'get you' later. How exactly does Trump 'get' his enemies?

Mostly a mean nickname and his morons do the rest

Public demonisation of a person or group of people in the hope that one of your followers will take you up on your threats

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He does have the advantage this time around of being a previous office-holder with an adoring fanbase who believe his last run for the office was stolen from him [and them] by his opponent. It might be worth examining his performance as titular head of the GOP since 2016 to figure out if he has a good record in office. I'm not sure how many presidents have had as many W/H chiefs of staff, Attorneys General, FBI bosses, as he had during his time in office.

I know that, you are the one touting meaningless historical data without context in an attempt to show Trump gas achieved something.

He isn't the incumbent in terms of POTUS, but he is the incumbent in terms of the leader of the party.

Has that happen often before that a defeated POTUS remains as leader and reruns for office?

Only by showing that comparison is your claim that Trump has somehow achieved something notable of any value.

There is a slim chance that something could come out of left-field from the Democrats side which could catch Trump off guard. I'm thinking of a Democrat plan where Biden would challenge Trump to a debate and wait for him to find an excuse to avoid it [as is his practice] and then publicize Trumps refusal for a face-off debate via the media and his publicity team, say Trump is afraid to face Biden in public.

If Trump's ego should force him to accept the offer, Biden can hammer him, make him rant and implode live on air, forcing his GOP base to accept he is not fit to withstand the pressure of the job in a national crisis event. If Biden succeeds in that, then some time after the fallout eases closer to election day and within the time limit for a change in candidate, Biden announce that for health reasons he is withdrawing from the election and the Democrats will have to name a replacement for him in the race.

The GOP itself has two other candidates wiling to fill their candidacy slot. Read what DeSantis actually said when he made his last announcement on his candidacy for president. Haley is still running against Trump at this time, not like DeSantis.

I know this is like a dream on my part but given what Trump and his allies have actually done to the USA in its day to day national life, it would be just desserts for Trump to have put one over on him and beach him for good. It would also put an end to the world having to wonder what Trump does next.

Edit: I'm more than a little bit curious about Trump and his undefined statement on Tuesday: Donald Trump threatened that Nikki Haley would be “under investigation” if she beat him in the Republican primary after defeating her in New Hampshire. “Just a little note to Nikki – she is not going to win, but if she did she would be under investigation by those people in 15 minutes. I could tell you five reasons why already, not big reasons, little stuff that she doesn’t want to talk about, but she will be under investigation in minutes,” said Mr Trump to a crowd of his supporters on Tuesday night. “And so would Ron have been, but he decided to get out.”

Who are those people going to investigate his candidacy opponents with the GOP?

They are both near 80 so its possible that either could have a brainfade for sure. The concern for Trump is he is easier to needle although an advantage for him expectations will be so low he won't have to perform that well for the night not to be considered a disaster.

Anyone who thinks he will avoid the debates are insane, he swerved the GOP debate because he was wary of Christie and to a lesser extent RDS hammering him and he knew only political nerds cared about it with him gone so it did not hurt him whatsoever, but the masses will tune into a debate v Biden so he has to show up.

The 60/65 year retirement rule would probably apply to both where it came to a PT test, whatever about each trying to get the other to keel over mid test. The stair test, well, we've seen both fail on the steps [Biden on AF1 - and Trump on the hotel steps in Iowa for the primary.

The debate showing their mental agility; that's the whole point. That said, I just cant help seeing the tv-show stunt Trump pulled of strolling behind Hilary Clinton at their debate in my mind's eye, imagining him trying to unsettle Biden with a similar stunt.

Not sure where you got that second factoid from but it's not true. Joe Biden did it 4 years ago.

The third one needs a giant asterisk next to it as well

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