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

Something I'm interested to ask: who's advising Trump right now? I don't mean legally so much as general strategy. He's running for president - who is his campaign team? Who's he conferring with? Does he have a Bannon or a Conway right now?

the ghost of Roy Cohn...

I'm not sure who he has left that isn't already a target of prosecution or flipped or what.

I wonder if he will attend the Republican debates. Will be interesting watching if he does, if he declines to attend the rest of the candidates will just spend 2 hours bashing him.

Almost certainly not. He will reportedly counterprogram with Tucker Carlson,

ultimately the speculation is he has all the clout here, and could even choose to turn himself in around the time of or during the debate to steal all the air from the room if he turns himself in on wednesday night or early thursday morning, to take the wind out of the sails of whoever won. That's according to the analysts on MSNBC anyway:

'David Jolly: ‘Donald Trump will absolutely control this narrative’'

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The full phonecall with Raffensberger. Good time to review it imho.

The whole intro rant... is like listening to a child explain why they didn't turn in their term project.

But Mark Meadows tries to work the room as the GA officials push back, and Trump becomes more bullish, less than 20 minutes into the call your blood is cooking as you listen to what he is suggesting to them, that they just need to support the narrative that he won, based on XYZ conspiracy theory and his crowd sizes, and he gets increasingly frustrated that they cannot take the hint at what he really wants. About 36 minutes in he gets very impatient, and the incriminating explosion happens, where he starts twisting their screws, threatening them, and demanding 11,780 votes after unsuccessfully arguing for much larger numbers than that based on his ranting and raving narrative. Shortly after this there is some echoing - somewhere in some room with 2 of the people on the line, it goes to loudspeaker to begin recording..

By 45 minutes into the phone call he's shoveling knowably false narratives at them, hoping they will bite at something, and encouraging them that he would take all of the criticism on their behalf and go attack Ruby on their behalves. Half an hour prior to this he refused and became combative with GA officials when they asked to be shared the same information he was alleging to be in possession of, and utterly screaming at them at one point or two.

**** Mark Meadows, there is nothing about this phonecall or his shilling within it or his sitting quietly by that was in his official capacity. He can move his case to federal court in my hole.

Just for the record: that is absurd.

The neocons seize the moment

He must fear the trial then so....

Very very good point ..

I perfectly understand why a lot of "Rustbelt" Trump voters gave them their x in 2016. He was telling them what they wanted to hear and over the years they've become increasingly abandoned by both parties in the US. But Trump lied to them, just liked he's lied to everyone else. He used these people for his own ends.

Thing is, in the 2020's, there's just no excuse whatsoever to be a Trump supporter. We all know who he is. We all know what he is. We all know the damage he does. Giving that piece of shit your x is like going back to the shark that bit off your left arm just to give him a bite on your right arm.

But, yes, it really is a tragedy that poor people across America see this vile dirtbag as the solution to their problems. Desperate people in poverty turning to a man who lives in a golden tower who's only interested in using them for his own gain.

But their instigator and leader shouldn't be jailed, apparently

| Plan B is to get the nomination because Trump is ko'd from it, hoovering up Trump supporter votes. |

I thought DeSantis was against any form of Plan B?