If this had all come to pass, Trump could’ve stopped lying about his net worth!
becoming president again is one that no doubt makes millions of people across America, to say nothing of those living abroad, feel like they’re going to shit their pants. (If you only recently got dropped on planet Earth and are wondering why, see:he was officially kicking off a third run for the White House, he likely gave rise to countless fantasies involving a time machine, 2015, and convincing him that only suckers and losers run for president.
Of course, most people didn’t believe there was any actual scenario in which Trump could have been stopped from running for president again. Though, according to a forthcoming biography of FTX cofounderthe “subtext” of which was protecting the world from Donald Trump, whom SBF viewed as an existential threat to humanity on par with another pandemic and climate change.
At that moment, Sam was planning to give $15 million to $30 million to McConnell to defeat the Trumpier candidates in the Senate races. On a separate front, he explained to me, as the plane descended into Washington, he was exploring the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president. His team had somehow created a back channel into the Trump operation and returned with the not terribly earth-shattering news that Donald Trump might indeed have his price: $5 billion.
Assuming this was, in fact, legal—a big assumption!—it would have obviously been a brilliant plan, because it might have actually worked, given Trump’sOf course, this did not happen in the end, which may or may not have had to do with a combination of Trump deciding he had to run for presidentAn essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop.
With the GOP primary looking all but over, the president is hitting crucial swing states as his team tries to make 2024 a repeat of 2020. Though Trump drives MAGA voters, says one Biden insider, “he’s an even better motivator for Democrats.”
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