President Trump Seriously Considering 2024 Run As He Continues False 2020 Claims



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President Trump participates in a video teleconference call with members of the military on Thanksgiving at the White House.

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In a 45-minute prerecorded speech, Trump holds up charts claiming they prove fraud when they simply show a normal flow of ballots being counted.

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Trump supporters protest this week in front of a Phoenix hotel where Arizona Republicans had scheduled a meeting to discuss the election.

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The former aide said a Trump announcement will also curb plans for Sens. Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and others they described as «career politicians» who are thought to be angling for the Republican presidential nomination.

Meanwhile, Trump’s assertions of election fraud will continue to hurt Biden and his ability to try to unite the country, the former aide said, noting that Trump is not expected to attend the inauguration, and likely will continue to raise the specter that Biden’s presidency is illegitimate.

«They’re doing everything they can to create this asterisk,» the former aide said. «There will be a significant amount of the population that sees Joe Biden as an asterisk president the more and more Trump keeps this up.»

A common refrain in the Trump orbit is to say that while Trump is now trying to delegitimize Biden, it is no different than the Russia investigation that dogged his presidency and the constant reminders from many on the left that Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Trump lost the popular vote by an even greater total in 2020.

Trump’s campaign had prepared for the possibility of legal challenges if results were close, filing a flurry of lawsuits before Election Day questioning changes to rules for absentee balloting in several states. But after the election, Trump decided he wanted to take a different course of action and brought in his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, the campaign official said.

«We had a pretty narrow path, but it was a path,» the official said. «I think the president made a decision that he wanted to kind of, you know, have someone go in there and knock over tables and stuff, and the path was probably a little too conservative for his taste, so he brought Rudy in.»

Giuliani pushed out or alienated most of the more traditional campaign lawyers. «He’s running kind of his own plays, and they’re not very legal-oriented,» the official said. «There’s no legal team left. Like, they’re calling it a legal team, but there’s not lawyers that do work left to do it.»

The public events orchestrated by Giuliani fall far short of the kind of evidentiary standards that would be required in court hearings, the campaign official said, calling them «fake hearings.» But they help Trump push the fiction that the election was taken from him.



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