The former president is telling Republicans he “doesn’t want Biden to have a victory” in 2024, said a source familiar with the bipartisan negotiations.
Donald Trump on Wednesday privately pressured Senate Republicans to “kill” a bipartisan deal to secure the U.S. border because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to chalk up a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a source familiar with the tenuous negotiations on the package.
Trump directly reached out to several GOP senators on Wednesday to tell them to reject any deal, said this source, who requested anonymity to speak freely. The GOP presidential frontrunner also personally reached out to some Senate Republicans over the weekend, the source told HuffPost.
“Trump wants them to kill it because he doesn’t want Biden to have a victory,” said the source. “He told them he will fix the border when he is president… He said he only wants the perfect deal.”
Also, there’s a non-zero chance we’ll get dragged into a war with Russia if Putin attacks a NATO country after Ukraine. Senators know that if we don’t fund Ukraine now, it will be much worse for everyone later, and potentially having Trump at the helm during that time would be an unmitigated disaster.
Honestly if Trump gets back into office I’m joining the legion.
The (French? I think?) foreign legion, or is there another legion out there these days?
There are more than a few articles about how people had to sandbag things to stop him from trying to unilaterally withdraw from NATO.
Maybe if this happens again, with most of the adults purged from the room, next time, if there are any left, one adult will just pull out their revolver and sandbag this up properly for everyone.
Don’t tempt me with a good time
I just can’t really see Russia invading a NATO country. I mean, they would be either completely destroyed relatively quickly, or we’re talking WW3 and a couple thousand years of rebuilding.
Then again, a dying man has nothing to lose. Who knows if the rumors of him having cancer are true, but he’s certainly no spring chicken, at any rate.