We've been wondering, what is Trump thinking right now?
Is he thinking is Trump so delusional that he really thinks he can steal the election
from Joe Biden?
There's a new report from NBC's Peter Alexander, which is that Trump knows he can't win.
He's putting on a show.
Peter Alexander tweeting yesterday morning, quote, Trump is very aware there is not a
path to victory, but he believes the 72 million who voted for him deserve a fight.
So he's battling as a form of theater for them, a top White House aide tells me.
So I believe this understand the multilevel scam that this is.
First of all, Trump has Republicans running all over the country claiming they have a
shot.
Rudy's in Philadelphia, Eric Trump's.
And who the hell knows where?
He's got Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying we're going to have a second.
Trump administration press secretary Kayleigh McEnany saying, you know, this is all it's
all fraud.
Is this all an act where everyone knows it's fake or does.
Trump think it's fake, but all of his sycophants believe it's real.
I don't know next layer of the scam, Trump is raising money on this.
So even if Trump believes this is all theater in terms of winning, Trump is really raising
real people's money for recounts and for legal challenges.
And that's the scam because the fine print of Trump's election fraud fundraising is that
50 percent of the money you give goes not to lawsuits and recounts.
50 percent of the money you give goes to paying off Trump's campaign debt.
There are many Trump supporters, many on fixed incomes, many with low incomes, who really
can't afford to be giving Trump money.
And this is not nanny state stuff where I think someone should protect them.
The president is scamming them.
It's just the president shouldn't be scamming them.
That said, it's not about regulation.
If Trump knows he can't win and he realizes that this is theater, he's raising millions
of dollars from people who potentially can't afford to be donating to Trump, who are donating
because they think it might help him win.
And Trump himself, according to Peter Alexander, doesn't think this is going to make a difference.
He's scamming people to pay off his campaign debt.
Now, I know you know, a fool and their money are soon parted and all of that stuff.
But there are more and more aides coming forward now and saying there is not even really the
idea of a plan here.
This is a straight up scam. Trump aides and advisers and allies have said there's no grand
strategy here.
He'll file a lawsuit, he'll send a tweet, whatever.
There's no strategy.
And according to The Washington Post, quote, Asked about Trump's ultimate plan, one senior
administration official chuckled and said, you're giving everyone too much credit right
now.
They're just lying to people they know.
They're lying to people and they don't care.
And it's not just that they're hurting people by taking their money.
They're also hurting the United States.
They're hurting our election process.
They're hurting our democracy.
And along the way, he continues to make the United States a laughing stock.
And he is very clearly I mean, it's a commitment at this point.
Donald Trump is committed to making the United States a global laughingstock, not, I would
argue, not just until January 20th when Joe Biden becomes president, but probably well
beyond that.
And it is all of our, you know, going back to 2015, 2016, all of our worst fears about
Donald Trump, all of our concerns about how wacky he might be as president, how disastrous
they were, understated.
We've talked before about this bogus term Trump derangement syndrome used to dismiss
criticism of the president saying, oh, you people are so hyperbolic.
Almost no one was hyperbolic enough about the presidency of Donald Trump.
That's the reality.
It's starting to wrap up and that's a very good thing.
A little bit later today, I am going to talk about what can Joe Biden get done if he doesn't
get the Senate, will Trump really run again in twenty, twenty four?
What's next for the Republican Party?
A lot of very important questions we will deal with later.
I'm glad you're here.
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And we will be back right after this.