Donald Trump the Megathread part II - threadbans and mod warnings in OP

At his Mar-A-Lago news conference, Former President Donald Trump said that he would rather be running against Vice President Kamala Harris over President Joe Biden. “We were given Joe Biden, and now we’re given somebody else. And I think frankly, I’d rather be running against the somebody else,” Trump said at a news conference on Thursday. Trump attacked Harris’ policy stances and said that she is a “radical left person.”

As if he's been given any choice in the matter and he is trying to sugarcoat that reality for himself and his digestive system. Now to see if his latest position on which candidate he'd really prefer to run against is understood by his campaign team, that the person asserting that he'd like Joe back and Kamala gone from the stage get's the message.

Noticeable that his term of reference "Kamabla" was replaced by "the somebody else", ignoring and dissing her being a woman. Roll on the debates between him and Kamala, and the separate debate between their candidate V/P's.

It is a stretch to call this a press conference.

This man is not well, he is really not well.

Jaysis, he is not well at all. "75% of the country is MAGA now, because it makes sense"

Lara Trump on with Chris Cuomo on News Nation yesterday:

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, insisted that she is committed to election integrity and if her father-in-law doesn’t “legitimately win” come November, there “will be no problem”.

“My job at the RNC and our number one focus has been election integrity,” Lara told Chris Cuomo on NewsNation. “I can assure you if he does not legally and legitimately win this election there will be no problem.”

Now that sound's nice as a statement from her as co-chair of the GOP but the question is: will he and his base camp followers within and without the GOP follow her commitment to electoral integrity? What if they don't see him not winning the presidential election "legitimately" in the same light as her but see it in the light of four years ago?

To cap it off: “You can argue whatever you want about the 2020 election, but there is no doubt that half the country, maybe more, feels like there was something off in that election,” Lara told Cuomo.

Apparently the issue of the debates is sorted. Trump said that he has “agreed” to debates hosted by Fox News on September 4, ABC on September 10, and NBC on September 25. “We have spoken to the heads of the network, and it's all been confirmed, other than some fairly minor details,” he said.

I cant help supposing that the "some fairly minor details" might well an be an agreement between him and Harris on dates, TV channels, ground rules and the hosts.

He will show up for the fox aka "safe space" debate and skip the others.

That press conference was a complete disaster.

It only solidified that stark difference between the DNC ticket and Trump.

Very telling that Vance wasn't involved. This wasn't anything other than a Trump whingefest.

Whatever plan the Trump campaign had that thought this was going to be a good idea certainly didn't work.

I thought one of the most cringing points was when he was asked why he hadn't been out campaigning and his reply was he was busy making videos!

I've re-learned a truth from Lawrence O'Donnell and that a response from Trump is not necessarily an answer to the question; where Trump is concerned, it's an evasion and more probably a lie into the bargain. Trump got what he wanted. Hopefully the next time trump calls a news conference and asks for specific journalists only, the newsdesk editor says "no".