- Trump recently suggested that he would run for president again in 2024.
- His niece Mary Trump predicted that he would only pretend to run to raise money.
- “I don’t think he will let that grift go anytime soon,” she told MSNBC.
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Donald Trump will only “pretend” that he will run for president in 2024 to raise money before giving up, predicted his niece Mary Trump.
Donald Trump has been looking to stay focused within the Republican Party since he left the White House in January. He sparked a 2024 run at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, telling an audience, falsely, that he beat the Democrats last year and saying “he may even decide to beat them a third time”.
Mary Trump, who last year published a book that strongly criticized her uncle, told Mehdi Hasan of MSNBC on Monday that he would continue to provoke a presidential race because he has collected a large amount of money from supporters since he lost the 2020 elections in falsely claiming that he had won.
Donald Trump raised at least $ 150 million to contest the result of the November election, while he continued to promote unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud. Most of the money could finance his political future.
“I think he will pretend, for sure,” said Mary Trump of her uncle running for president again.
“Think about how much money he has made from the big lie in the last few months. He has made more money since President Biden won the elections than I think he has won in his entire life. So I don’t think he will abandon this grift so early. “
She predicted that her uncle would not become the GOP nominee in 2024 because she feared losing.
“There is no way he could put himself in the position of losing again,” she said. “The problem is that the Republican Party seems determined to continue to keep it legitimate, which is really scary.”
Several prominent Republican lawmakers talked about the prospect of Trump running in 2024. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said over the weekend that he would “absolutely” support Trump in the next presidential race, while Senator Lindsey Graham has indicated that she wants to use Profile Trump’s policy to secure the House and Senate in 2022.
Senator Mitt Romney, who in February voted to condemn Trump during his impeachment trial, recently predicted in an interview with the New York Times that Trump would win the Republican Party’s nomination for an “overwhelming victory” if he ran in 2024.
“I look at the polls and the polls show that, among the names that emerged as potential candidates in 2024, if you put President Trump there among the Republicans, he wins with an overwhelming victory,” he said.