Trump hints at 2024 run, Biden to meet with U.S. workers hit by pandemic

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Trump hints at 2024 run, Biden to meet with U.S. workers hit by pandemic

By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return to Washington from Camp David, U.S., November 29, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Donald Trump hinted he may be ready to move on to planning another run for the U.S. presidency in 2024 as President-elect Joe Biden prepared on Wednesday to confront the raging pandemic that will likely be his first major challenge in office.

 

Biden, who has promised to act quickly to provide more resources to fight the health crisis after he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, was scheduled to talk with workers and business owners about how the coronavirus has affected them.

 

President Trump has refused to concede, however, and his lawyers continue to file legal challenges to the outcome of the Nov. 3 election, alleging electoral fraud without providing evidence. State and federal election officials have repeatedly said there is no such evidence.

 

At a White House holiday reception on Tuesday night, Trump appeared to acknowledge that those efforts could fail, and in that case he would run again.

 

"We are trying to do another four years," he told the assembled group, according to a Republican source who was at the event. "Otherwise, I’ll see you in four years.”

 

On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr, who has long been seen as a Trump ally, said the Justice Department has also found no evidence of widespread fraud.

 

Trump's claims have gained traction among his followers, however, helping to raise as much as $170 million for an "Election Defense Fund" that can be used for a wide variety of future political activities, including another run for the presidency, according to news media reports.

 

On Wednesday, Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Biden was headed for victory after the state's second recount, and sharply criticized Trump for fomenting false claims.

 

"Even after this office request that President Trump try and quell the violent rhetoric being born out of his continuing claims of winning the states where he obviously lost, he tweeted out 'expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia,'" he said.

 

"This is exactly the kind of language that is at the base of a growing threat environment for election workers who are simply doing their jobs."

 

MOVING AHEAD WITH TRANSITION

Biden has already selected many of his top national security and economic advisers, though it is unclear how many will win confirmation in a closely divided Senate, control of which will be determined by a pair of January runoff elections in Georgia.

 

On Wednesday, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive national security briefings from government officials, after a delay of several weeks.

 

Biden told the New York Times in an interview on Tuesday evening that he would try to help resolve a months-long standoff in Congress between Republicans and Democrats over a stimulus package for businesses affected by coronavirus shutdowns as well as the millions who have lost jobs.

 

More than 270,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, which is resurgent around the country. The United States leads the world in the number of infections as well as the number of deaths reported every day.

 

"You have over 10 million people out there who are worried (how) they can pay their next mortgage payment,” Biden said in the interview, and “you have a significantly higher number of people who have no ability to pay their rent.”

 

Failure on the issue could have political consequences for Republicans, Biden told the newspaper.

 

“When you have cops and firefighters and first responders across the board being laid off, when you’re not getting the kind of distribution of vaccines out to rural America, it has to have some consequences,” he was quoted as saying.

 

Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has begun circulating new draft legislation after a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a $908 billion package.

 

Britain approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the first country to do so. Once similar approval is granted by U.S. regulators, health officials plan to begin vaccinating Americans as soon as mid-December.

 

(Reporting by Andy Sullivan and Brad Heath; Writing by Sonya Hepinstall; Editing by Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)

 

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[PatOngo 44,806]

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

More than 270,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, which is resurgent around the country. The United States leads the world in the number of infections as well as the number of deaths reported every day.

That's your legacy Donald. If people are truly stupid enough to vote for this clown again, may you get what you deserve America! I only hope it's not a Trump!

[bkk6060 13,124]

4 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

That's your legacy Donald. If people are truly stupid enough to vote for this clown again, may you get what you deserve America! I only hope it's not a Trump!

If not him it will be one of his kids.

I bet we will be hearing the name Trump mentioned politically for many many years.

[PatOngo 44,806]

Just now, bkk6060 said:

If not him it will be one of his kids.

I bet we will be hearing the name Trump mentioned politically for many many years.

I suspect we will be hearing the name mentioned criminally as well!

[mr mr 5,650]

8 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

That's your legacy Donald.

that's your legacy america.

[Credo 10,204]

For those who might be good with math, won't Trump be 78?   I mean, a lot of people seem to think that's too old to be president.

 

[Jeffr2 8,392]

7 minutes ago, Credo said:

For those who might be good with math, won't Trump be 78?   I mean, a lot of people seem to think that's too old to be president.

 

As you know with Trump supporters.  Easy to bash others, but give a pass to him on stuff like this.

 

Interesting article about his run.  Many in the GOP are ready to move on from Trump.  Sadly, his base is still mesmerized and acting like cult members.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/donald-trump-2024-republican-party/index.html

Another Donald Trump presidential bid is the absolute worst case scenario for Republicans

[OneMoreFarang 26,657]

Now the GOP politicians have to decide if they want to support Trump in the next 4 years or if the don't do that and then maybe in 2024 Trump will run as an independent and will get a big part of the voters who would normally vote GOP.

It seems the next years won't get boring in the USA. And we in the rest of the world can watch this like the bad soap opera it is.

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43 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

 

It seems the next years won't get boring in the USA. And we in the rest of the world can watch this like the bad soap opera it is.

Trump showed it's OK to make our allies pay their fair share. Freedom isn't free.

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1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Now the GOP politicians have to decide if they want to support Trump in the next 4 years or if the don't do that and then maybe in 2024 Trump will run as an independent and will get a big part of the voters who would normally vote GOP.

It seems the next years won't get boring in the USA. And we in the rest of the world can watch this like the bad soap opera it is.

I think you have that wrong it’s not if they want to support they despise him as most thinking folks do they are terrified of his base one bad tweet from trump can ruin their lives and career trumps no republican he has no guiding principles let alone republican principles imo he won’t run in 2024 but he will certainly bilk the you know what out of the rubes

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23 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Trump showed it's OK to make our allies pay their fair share. Freedom isn't free.

And crooks pay for their pardons. ‘Freedom isn’t free’.

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The removal of Trump from the WH and Barr from the DoJ is going to open the can of seething corruption they have been using their office to commit and to hide.

 

Trump’s life is over the moment he leaves office.

 

The race is on between his creditors and NY State prosecutors.

 

There will be no Trump 2024

 

He’s done.

Edited December 3, 2020 by Chomper Higgot

[EVENKEEL 5,614]

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And crooks pay for their pardons. ‘Freedom isn’t free’.

So much for a creditable retort. 

[Tug 21,576]

2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

So much for a creditable retort. 

The bigger man gives a hand up and protects their friends it’s the correct honorable thing to do trumps legacy imo will be the world distrusting America it will take decades to undo the damage he has wrot 

[Walker88 4,225]

I very much doubt 45 will be a free man in 2024. NY State has him under investigation for a host of crimes, from bank and insurance fraud to tax evasion. No pardon will free him from justice at the State level.

 

As a non-sitting former POTUS, he won't even be able to hide behind the silly OLC ruling about a sitting POTUS being free from prosecution, so the various cases against him for sexual assault/rape (e.g., E Jean Caroll) will procede. Remember she has the un-laundered dress she wore when she alleges he raped her and will seek a sample of his DNA to match against stains on the dress. At the very least, if there's a DNA match, 45 will have to change his tune from the vile "She's not my type" to "It was consensual".

 

On his side, 45 has raised, via his bogus 'fraud' claims for which he has offered zero proof, almost $170 million of suckers' money to defend himself (at least with 75% of it, as the small print in his begging indicates), so as usual he will get others to pay for his own crimes or failures (like his 6 bankruptcies, which were ultimately paid for by the US Taxpayer, as stiffed banks and creditors could use their loss to write off tax liability).

 

Re his potential cases, NY State has all the documents and phone conversations given them by former 45 attorney Michael Cohen. Just as Cohen's material proved 45's willing participation in the payoff to Stormy Daniels, ending with 45 being an 'unindicted co-conspirator', the material could well prove all the charges re 45's bank and insurance fraud.

 

If convicted, jail is not only likely, but necessary. The US must demonstrate that ALL are equal under the law, even POTUSs. If a major economic power and democracy like South Korea can jail several of its former leaders, the supposed beacon of democracy and justice in the world (or so it claims), the US, must also jail those who break the law.

 

There's no Twitter from jail. 45 is likely to disappear without his Tweets.

Edited December 3, 2020 by Walker88