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Re:The Media and US Election 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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Re:The Media and US Election 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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So, if I were Trump, what would I do next? Well, if lawyers agreed, I'd issue a Presidential Pardon (or get Pence to do so) for any "mistakes" made during period of office.
Secondly, next week I'd issue a very generous message to Biden/Harris, saying, despite strong opposition to many policies, they have 100% support from him and his 74 million supporters in this terrible time of Covid19 and in bringing back peace and acceptance for all Americans. I'd speak incredibly highly of the achievements and abilities of both, exaggerating wildly and doing so in simplistic slogans that can (and will) be quoted for four years by every stupid media outlet. I'd wish them both well; give them total support for the first one hundred days and sincerely hope (he's good at sincere) for their success.
Not a word of doubt or disagreement. No more allegations of fraud or vote fixing. Accept the result, attend the inauguration, increase security precautions for ex Presidents over the next four years.
Then go on a golf holiday to Mar El Largo.
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Re:The Media and US Election 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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JK compares himself to Trump?
Trump used the media as he always has and the media used him. There's nothing nothing unique about what Trump has done.
1000s of people do it all the time. Hollywood uses the media brilliantly and the media use Hollywood. And they are 1000 times better than Trump at it as the general public can't even see it.
And 1000 pop stars have used the media far better than Trump could possibly hope to, and continue to flourish.
Before he became President, Trump had hit rock bottom publicity wise and was a joke in NY..and most likely broke.
He didn't even make the money he should have from The Biggest Loser because he signed a rotten deal that cut him out of foreign sales. So much for the Art Of The Deal. And the show was so successful because the producers knew how to use Trump.
We know he didn't expect to win IN 2015 but when he did- the intoxication of power took over.
I don;t know how much Trump has creamed off in the last 4 years but whether it's enough to pay off his creditors the $100s of Millions he owes- creditors who have been waiting until January, is a mystery.
The fantasy that Trump will run in 2024 really is delusional. He'll be 78 years old- older than Biden is today. The Republican Party will already be working out how to distance themselves from the Trump Bandwagon whose wheels have come off bigly. The Storming of Congress will be the last straw.
And he likely will spend years fighting of NY State charges over tax avoidance and a host of other allegations they are itching to go him for.
More importantly- the billionaire supporters of the Republican Party who financed Trump's 2015 bid abandoned him in 2020. Billionaires who backed trump in 2015 backed Biden in 2020. It's partly the reason he lost.
Trump is just the Monkey..a clever monkey but the Organ Grinders are the super rich powerful who fund the campaigns.
Jon Ossoff who won a Senate seat in Georgia raised $180,000,000 just to stand in the re-run of his election seat
There isn't a hope in hell of any Trump family member raising a penny, let alone the $Billions needed for a presidential bid.
The right wing billionaire Republican funders have abandoned him. They do it every now and then..a change in party gives them 4 years to re-organize.
One glaring example is how King Maker Rupert Murdoch abandoned Trump shortly before the election. Murdoch knows how to pick winners. He doesn't care which side of politics they are on..if he senses a win he's onboard.
And there are 100 US billionaires who act likewise.
There will be no Trump 2024 presidential bid because there will be no-one to fund it. There will be no Trump TV. The day of Trump is over.
The media circus moves ever onward. he's old news (especially after the past few days). Trump is a busted flush.
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Re:The Media and US Election 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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So Trump starts to do exactly what I predicted above; he is conceding defeat, is condemning those who broke the law, is preparing to welcome and (I suspect) praise Biden. He will become generous, kind, supportive. He will urge co-operation with the Biden administration (for 100 days). Slowly, over the next couple of years, his strident criticism will begin to emerge. If he's sensible it will be far less strident, far more reasonable, backed by proof and evidence as the Biden reforms start failing (as they certainly will). Then he'll be poised to grab the Presidency in 2024, whether as a Republican, Independent or, as I suspect, a Democrat.
I'm still not a fan. I still disagree with most of his policies (as I did with Thatcher and Corbyn). But, as with Tony Blair, I admire his use of media. Manipulative? Oh yes - that is the way in this Century. Do I support those who fell for it? Not at all; just as I despise the gullibles who fell for the media hype of Covid19. And the Brexiteers. And those who cannot see the vast majority of sex allegations are exaggerated, inflated or totally false.
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