Donald Trump’s 2024 Run Announcement Will Be ‘Fake,’ Commentator Says
Liberal political commentator Bill Palmer isn’t confident that Donald Trump’s expected 2024 announcement will amount to a legitimate presidential run.
“Even if Donald Trump soon announces that he’s running again in 2024, it’ll be fake, and it should be completely ignored,” he wrote in an opinion piece on Palmer Report.
According to the blogger, the expected announcement is part of a strategy to raise money for Trump’s legal defense for criminal trials and money he owes to creditors, and it wouldn’t be the first time. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the head of state used his battle against the electoral results to raise money for an “official election defense fund.” But as the publication noted, fine print revealed that at least half of the funds would be used to paid debt from Trump’s re-election campaign
“The fine print on those solicitations says 60% of a contribution helps the campaign retire debt and 40% goes to the Republican National Committee,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Palmer believes that the commander-in-chief’s purported forthcoming 2024 announcement will follow a similar strategy.
“Trump will obviously be in prison before 2024. Don’t let anyone in the media get away with framing this Trump 2024 nonsense as if it were real.”
As The Inquisitr reported, Trump allegedly plans to announce a second presidential run after delaying the certification of the election results for as long as possible. Although the U.S. leader’s administration signed off to allow Biden’s team to begin transitioning into the White House on Monday, Palmer claimed that this was likely the result of pressure from Republican corporate donors. As of Tuesday evening, the president has yet to announce a 2024 run.
Elsewhere, former congressional candidate and Democratic activist Kim Weaver speculated that Trump was stalling the election results to give him time to get rid of the evidence of his purported crimes. Her comment came just one day after Danya Perry claimed that the commander-in-chief could be indicted on January 21 in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden’s expected inauguration.
If a Trump 2024 bid becomes a reality, he would likely have significant backing. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Tuesday revealed that the president has 53 percent support among the Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who were surveyed. In second place was Vice President Mike Pence with 12 percent, and in third was Donald Trump Jr. with 8 percent. Other candidates included prominent GOP figures like Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, Tom Cotton, and Nikki Haley — all of whom received less than 5 percent support.
