What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Indeed. I feel thar damn near any Dem candidate could have beaten Trump last time. 2020 was very much a referendum against Trump rather than in favour of Biden. Biden wasn’t Trump, and I feel that was the main thing.

They could however really do with a new energetic candidate. I doubt anyone would blame Biden retiring at this stage in favour of another candidate. I was hopeful that Harris might have been that, but I at the moment I can’t see that working. Biden could still beat Trump in a rematch I feel, but a more “exciting” candidate would make it a sure thing.

The while GenZ and Millennial angle is key too. I feel that overturning Roe v Wade damaged the GOP’s chances in the midterms and their attempts to make abortion drugs illegal / inaccessible is going to do the same damage in the eyes of a whole generation of people who suddenly see their reproductive rights stifled by the red candidates. This will hurt Trump’s chances in 2024 especially if they keep this up. If they had any intelligence the GOP should have just threatened to do these things indefinitely without actually doing it, but now they’ve handed the Dems a mandate to reverse what they’ve been up to.

What is more baffling is that it’s clear that many GOP people don’t really feel all that opposed to abortion options, since a good few have been reported either paying for them, or in some cases getting them themselves. I know it’s an play designed to get hard-core Evangelical voters on-side, and then again within those communities you’ll get plenty of messing about under the veneer of their beliefs. Thus, the GOP continues to damage their chances with several generations of voters, all for banning a reproductive right that they or much of their target audience don’t really mind people having. It’s about as mindless as them still allowing Trump to railroad their party.

I disagree and think that Biden was perfect for 2020.

Trump still polled well but Biden was the antithesis of trumpism. He represented stability, scandal free, political norms and competency. He was well known and had 8 successful years as VP.

Running an unknown dem against trump would have been a disaster.

Who cares what Bill Barr says anymore? He did his duty by his Federalist Society masters, no doubt has some good gigs not doing a lot of anything for the future.

TFG had several AG's, this is the only one we hear from. Go away Barr you John Goodman look-alike. Goodman would've done a better job, too.

Happy Easter to all!

(Except the people I don't like- so presidential 🤣)

Plenty of evangelical and others fit that bill regarding women, given only 20% of the population who identify Christian are Catholic.

The evangelicals and their type of followers as they see Catholicism as a tool of Satan. They don't have any love for those the Jewish faith either but support Israel as they see it as a way to bring about the end of days.

Like everyone supporting trump its a mishmash of c*ntism, stupidity and mental health issues. Hence why a few of them in countries out side of the U.S. are on the watch lists of local police forces.

Speaking of things Bill Bar says

Reddit had the juxtaposition

No this is what Democrats are doing as they know Biden won't beat Ron DeSantis if he is the wins the nomination. They really want Trump to run and these doomed cases in New York will help him win the nomination.

It's a shame really as DeSantis would be a great Nominee and President.

Also If Trump hadn't gone down the childish route of slagging him off it could have been Trump/DeSantis ticket.

Well now Trump doing things that are unforced errors are why we are here.

Had he never had a conversation with his conspirators to stiff payment of Stormy Daniels after the election, Bragg would almost surely have no case.

But Trump can't help but put his foot in his mouth constantly, whether its slagging off marginally adequate GOP candidates or not following through on his hush money payments. Bragg has evidence, according to SOF, that payments weren't simply related to protecting his family from finding out. Bragg has evidence it was about defrauding voters, which is illegal (Bragg hasn't specified what the underlying crime is the false business records covered but that's at least one of them right there).

This penchant for producing unforced errors constantly is all the more reason Trump will never get 70 million votes again. But I love watching Republicans and their handmaidens trying to figure that out without hurting any MAGA feelings.

As for Ron his personal vendetta with his Wedding Venue is going to ruin his career.

DeSantis would be a terrible nominee. He has gone all in on core culture war topics, which most voters either disagree with him or don't care about. He also shrivels any time he is put under any kind of scrutiny - why nearly every press appearance, even doing his job as governor, is done in front of a loyal cheering audience.

Overall, he is smarter than Trump but doesn't have a smidgen of Trump's charisma or media savviness. Trump would mop the floor with him with or without his legal issues

He also appears to be an unprincipled flip-flopper who believes in little beyond his own advancement

Such candidates can go from hero to zero very quickly as they don't really have a secure national base...

Perfectly normal, nothing to see here from the 'billionaire'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-fec-filing.html

Ive been wondering about the method of payment and if Cohen was buying himself an insurance policy to trade with in the event of getting caught which has has been. Last weeks Statement of Facts said that initially Trump wanted to pay the $130k in cash but Cohen said no I'll set up a shell company and they would route the money through that which then leaves the paper trail.

Its bizarre that he would knowingly run a criminal enterprise and then do it in such a way to leave a paper trail. Is Cohen that stupid or was he just making sure that if they ever got caught that there was a direct paper trail straight to Trump (who personally signed the cheques to Cohen for his 'retainer').

Because if this was all done in cash you just know Trump would have denied any knowledge of it. Trump would have thrown Cohen under the bus and Cohen would have spent way longer in prison than the 18 months he did if he had nothing to trade with. Maybe Cohen thought of that and said fcuk it if Im going down for this Im making sure he is too. Its either that or Cohen isnt the brightest which Im leaning towards. Like it wouldnt have been difficult to lay their hands on $130k cash but it was Cohens idea to do the shell company route which ultimately got them both caught.

Even at 40% tax rate, I find it hilarious that a 'billionaire' is facing these charges and possible time because he didn't want to spend €52 grand in tax. Fitting for trump

LOL. Trump paying tax. You're funny.