During an interview this week with conservative pundit, radio host and uh, writer Hugh Hewitt.
Donald Trump was asked Pointblank, will you support the 2024 Republican presidential nominee
if that nominee is not you?
And Trump responded by saying he's gonna stick to the comments that he made in 2016.
So what he said in 2016 applies to his run in 2024.
And what he said in 2016 was that, sure, I'll support the Republican nominee unless I believe
the process has been unfair.
You know, in which case I will take my supporters and run a third party campaign.
That is what he said in 2016.
He says this year that what he said in 16 is applicable to four, uh, 24.
So basically Donald Trump answered the question of, will you support the eventual Republican
nominee by saying, maybe, maybe not.
And if not, I will sabotage the Republican party in order to help the Democratic Party.
Because let's be real.
Donald Trump doesn't have to come out and say he's gonna support the Democrats.
But running a third party campaign with all your little MAGA followers is 100%.
Helping the Democrats like that is the only thing that would do.
You do not have enough support, especially up against an actual Republican nominee to
secure the presidency.
If you ran third party, you're not gonna get the Democrats either.
So what you do is you split the Republican vote, and it doesn't matter how it's split,
you know, I'm not saying it's gonna be a 50 50, it could be a 90 10 split, and it would
still be enough to catapult the Democrats into a fairly easy victory in 2024.
But that is Trump's strategy.
So the big question is, what does he view as the process not being fair?
I think we know exactly what he means.
If you start to see the Republican party apparatus starting to get behind a different candidate
that's not Trump, he's gonna say it's rigged.
When you see the big money that has already abandoned Trump start to line up behind some
of these other candidates who are gonna be jumping in very soon, he's gonna say that
it's rigged.
You know, the big money has spoken, they control the party.
They're picking these people.
I couldn't stand a chance against that kind of machine.
So he'll view that as unfair and possibly launch a third party bid.
There's a dozen similar scenarios where if one candidate starts to gain momentum, Trump
will claim it's unfair, potentially launching a third party presidential run.
Now also, after we figure
Out what he thinks is fair or unfair, we have to assess whether or not he's even being honest,
right?
I mean, let's be real here.
Trump has said a lot of things like, I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna do the, and everybody just forgets about it and he forgets about it and it never
happens.
Do I think he would waste his time and energy just to screw over the Republican party, give
President Biden four more years in office, or whoever the Democratic nominee may be?
Cuz Biden still hasn't officially said he is definitely running.
Who knows, right?
He is unpredictable.
He could do something incredibly stupid or he could just pound about it for the remainder
of his life like he will the 2020 election.
I mean, those are the possibilities, but any of them aren't gonna work out well for Donald
Trump or the Republican party because if he is not the nominee, even if he doesn't run
third party, you're gonna end up with a lot of those MAGA hat wearing lunatics out there
that are not gonna go and vote.
And the Republican party is gonna have to fight really hard to overcome those voters
who are gonna sit out because they're a part of the cult of Trump.
So the Republicans are the ones with an uphill battle at this point, and the X factor is
gonna be what Trump decides to do if he doesn't win that nomination, cuz he could easily just
kneecap that party and give Democrats the easiest victory they've ever secured.