Former President Donald Trump has stated that he may not seek re-election in 2024 owing to health concerns. Clearly that was a lie.
The failed one-term president was asked what could prohibit him from running for president in 2024 during an interview with Real Clear Politics.
“Well, one reason could be your health. You get a call from your doctor and that’s the end of that,” Trump explained. “That stuff happens; you hope it doesn’t. I just had a medical, just had great result. You never know, there are many things can happen; politics is a crazy world. It is a big commitment of you, your children, your wife, and your family.”
Trump then added that “people will be very happy with my decision.” Since he’s now running, many are not, including many on the right that wish he would just go away.
He also hinted at a new campaign slogan if he were to run: “Make America Great Again, Again.” A hilariously terrible one.
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman remarked previously that Trump needed to “come clean” about his health.
“I think going into 2024, I’m really more concerned about the fact that Donald Trump hasn’t come forward and talked about his health,” she told MSNBC. “I don’t know if he will even be healthy enough to run in 2024. I think he needs to come clean to the American people about where he is on that before deciding to get into a very stressful and strenuous race for the White House.”
Though Trump had doubts about 2024 he expressed no doubts about 2020.
“I feel very strongly that the election was rigged,” he said once again pushing his big lie. “I don’t feel like I could’ve lost Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and I just needed a couple of them.”
The topic of election fairness has become the third rail in American politics.
There is a genuine perception among Trump and a sizable portion of his followers that Democrats rigged the system by using pandemic-induced rule changes such as universal mail-in votes, ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and other means to allow Biden to win critical battleground states. Democrats and the majority of the media find it difficult to think Trump could believe such a thing.
They refute these assertions as “The Big Lie,” noting a slew of lawsuits and recounts that have turned up no evidence of fraud on the magnitude required to sway the 2020 election’s outcome.
“I got 75 million votes and lost,” Trump said, before catching himself and adding, “Supposedly lost. I didn’t lose. You know, I’ve never conceded. It’s okay for Stacey Abrams to not concede, but if I don’t concede…”
“Don’t forget when Biden went out, he couldn’t fill his eight circles. They had to use the press to fill the circles because nobody was there,” Trump said. “And I go out and I’ll get 40,000 or 50,000 people, and then I hear I lost the state? It’s just not possible.” It is possible and it happened. Get over it, loser.
He wrapped up the interview by adding “I used to say you can’t have a country without borders,” Trump said.
But these days he adds a qualifier. “You also cannot have a country with a corrupt election process. And we have a very corrupt election process.” These claims, of course, are unfounded and false.
