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LAST NIGHT, DONALD Trump was acquitted for the second time before a Senate impeachment trial.
Despite backing him in the vote, top Republican Mitch McConnell suggested the former president could face criminal charges now that he is out of office.
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen,” he said. “He didn’t get away with anything yet.”
Trump’s acquittal, however, does show the strong support he still holds in sections of the Republican party. And he could still run for president again in 2024.
In a defiant statement, he said that the movement to “Make America Great Again” has only just begun.
“In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people,” Trump said.
So, today we’re asking you: Do you think Donald Trump will run for US President again?
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He won’t, but one of his kids will .
@Barry Teehan: I don’t think his ego will allow that. He personally craves the glory and adulation of his fans. It’s not even about politics. It’s just about him and I can’t see him stepping aside for someone else to take that limelight. Not even his kids.
@Declan Doherty: Hard to know Declan, but I can see him revelling in the thought that one of his kids would run and he would get the stage at the rabble rousing rallies , so he would still be Captain Maga again. God only knows what is going on in his head really.
@Barry Teehan: spot on
@Barry Teehan: Agreed. Who knows. Im sure if he can’t run for legal or health reasons, running his kids would be his next best choice. The idea of a Trump party forming with him and his kids in complete charge and 80 million armed and brain washed supporters is terrifying.
@Barry Teehan: not a hope Barry. For the same reason they are just employees in his failing organisation he will never sanction greater power for them as long as he lives.
@Barry Teehan: for president? I very much doubt it. I could potentially see Ivanka running for office and failing but neither son has the charisma to build a cult following like their Dad did. Maybe Baron will run as a Democrat in about 20 years.
Hopefully not.
@Richard Russell: If you like America so much, then why don’t you move there?
@Richard Russell: What do you mean ? From what you’ve said it seems like a positive thing that a narcissistic lier wouldn’t be able to manipulate and brainwash the Irish people because our local media wouldn’t allow unsubstantiated lies to be spread. No matter what way you look at it Trump is the biggest spreader of fake news!!
@WiseUp: we had our own crook CJH, where were the media when he was lining his own and his cronies pockets.
@Richard Russell: Embarrassed for you. A man who told over 30k provable lies to the public has your admiration? Wow. Not to mention the nasty stuff….
@Pat Nolan: my memory appears to be a little different to yours big swathes of the Irish media were calling CJ out , but he had his own Republican Party voting for him , it took the total collapse of our economy to get the ff voters to open their eyes to a succession of utterly corrupt leadership
@Richard Russell: we do, Danny Healy-Rae
@Robert: that tiny issue of a green card might impede such a move.
@Richard Russell: Sad anonymous troll account.
@Richard Russell: He created the fake news.
@Richard Russell: He created fake news and is the King of it, check out how many lies he told, they actually kept a running total
@Teddy Bear: 30k lies, nonsense.
He will be 78 in 2024, same age President Biden is now, Biden is fit and healthy now but Trump is seriously obese and mentally unstable right now, it is unlikely he would be in any condition to do much in 2024
@Al Fresco: here’s hoping you’re right!
@Al Fresco: Whether his cultists would vote for him would be the critical thing. I agree about his health, which surely can’t result in a long life span. I don’t think he’ll run again though. Too much work and he’ll prefer to have the most impact versus the least actual effort.
@Al Fresco: I don’t think Biden is that healthy at all.
@Colin: so should that be Dr Colin
@Al Fresco: so do I hope you are right!
@Al Fresco: Well maybe the Alzheimer’s stage 4 will have kicked in…. Remember the USA voted Ronald Reagan back in 1984.. When it was well known in Washington that Ronnie had early onset Alzheimer’s…. So that should tell you what they’re like!!
@Al Fresco: have you seen Biden try to string a sentence together?
@Nicole: Trump has literally never spoke in coherent sentences unless he is very obviously reading off an autocue. So people gloss over the near constant gaffes he makes.Biden has a well documented stutter since his youth, trump and his maga patrol highlight literally every single slip as evidence of some mental decline, when in reality there is a lot more evidence of it in their own lad’s corner.
@Al Fresco: Joe Biden is suffering from Dementia and takes instructions from his handlers through a tiny hidden earpiece. his election as president was manipulated so as to get his VP into the oval office by the back door.
@Lager Lout: clueless
@Lager Lout: you need to lay off the sauce. Biden has a speech impediment.
@Nicole: Biden has a speech impediment since childhood that he handles very well, anyway his job is to run the country not make speeches. Trump was no great speaker, have you heard his thoughts on wind energy etc.? Plenty of video evidence of his gaffes on YouTube.
@Lager Lout: Trumps propaganda. Boring.
@Nicole: Biden had a bad stutter as a child. He learned through time and perseverance to control it and this entails spacing his sentences and controlling his breathing. Some interpret this as him being ‘slow’. He’s anything but slow. Played a blinder to oust Trump, just gave him enough rope.
@Fred spins kdb: He must have developed his stutter recently because he seemed fine in past interviews.
Yes but I don’t think he’ll officially win. That won’t matter to him though. RIP USA.
If Micky mouse was his lawyer he still would have got off he now has free reign to cause more damage to the U.S
The Donald won’t come close to the emerald isle when it comes to corruption,
Remember we had a minister for finance with no bank account.
They won’t beat that.
He’ll McDonald’s himself to death before then.
What is the point? If they could openly and blatantly steal the elections while he was in the White house, with all the bought Media against him, what chances does he have as a outsider? Democratically run elections in the US is dead.
@Merlin Lancelot: evidence please. Even one shred that the election was stolen. Otherwise stop being an attention-seeker.
@John Staunton: He read it on a Q Anon blog so it must be real
God I hope not !
If he manages to avoid any convictions from various legal actions against him , then he’ll definitely run again. It’s worth too much money for him not to. America was divided prior to January 6 but I think he will have lost many of the 72 million voters he picked up in 2020 based on what was in the impeachment prosecution case.It was damning, and will have an effect on future elections for a long time. He’ll always have a cult like following , however.
@Gary O’Grady: The oft-forgotten section 3 of the 14th Amendment provides in pertinent part:
No person shall [hold any United States or state office] who, having previously taken an oath, . . .as an officer of the United States, . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the (United States), or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
Trump said to the rioters, ‘ We love you, you’re very special. I know your pain’. Basically reassuring them he supported them and was comforting them.
@Jane Austen: ok jane, i’ll explain it because you appear to be a bit slow, there were 2 main groups, a huge group that attended the rally and remained outside and those that entered the building (tiny in proportion). Of those that entered the building, there were 2 groups, those that behaved themselves and a smaller proportion that behaved less well. Of the lesser behaved protestors, there were a small group that behaved very badly. there were some extreme right-wing and some extreme left wing (ANTIFA) The crucial point is that The President’s remarks were to the peaceful Patriots that that remained outside.
Not if Melania has anything to say about it.
@Paul Whitehead: I didn’t know clones could talk
@Keith Manning: she can speak in 5 languages, how many can you speak?
Shame on the Republucans, no guts. America the land of Cults. That’s what trump will do now, create this crazy cult following , hes half way there already. Scary times ahead
I sincerely hope not.
If the Republicans elect him as a candidate neither he or any future Republican should be elected President again. Its in their hands.
@MollyMsalone: They can’t win with him and can’t win without him.
Trump validates misinformed as smart, hoovering up Qanonsense out of autocracies on SM. Occam’s razor…which is more likely: empowered misinformed (the many) until too late, or empowered intelligence (the few) to build the future. Socrates was right…most vote for the sweet shop, never the doctor.
One of the Impeachment Managers made a telling comment: ‘I am not worried about Donald Trump running again in 2024, I am worried if he runs again and he loses” (or words to that effect). I suspect large corporations would not finance his campaign next time round.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see Ivanka Trump running next time round…
What in the name of baby Jebus do Irish Trumpists see in the man? He couldn’t be any more corrupt if he tried and has left the country more divided than ever. Honestly, what is it? His overt lack of intelligence? His scientific vocabulary? His hands on approach to his family? His talentless wife? What is it, I’m dying to know?
@Joecantdance: Most of them are people that would literally be homeless in trumps America, lauding his great work with the economy.
@Joecantdance:
And all the millionaires and muppets in Kildare Street are saints
@Joecantdance: his wife could not be talentless as he imported her using an ‘Einstein’ visa for people of exceptional talent
@John fitzpatrick: Did I mention them? Does the fact that they are muppets make The tangerine womble any better?
He has already spoken publicly about creating The MAGA Party (Not to be confused with the MAGA Patriot Party)
In the next round of elections (about 18 months) we will find what next.
However I suspect we have not heard the last of Messrs Trump and his Ilk.
@Ruairi Devlin Acfe: starting his own party would be the best thing that could happen to America. Of the 74 million that voted for trump, I’d imagine the vast majority of them were just voting Republican (or anti democrat). His own party would have zero chance of doing any damage.
@Ruairi Devlin Acfe: Splitters
He should be locked up
Wouldn’t put anything past him…
History will show that Donald J Trump, was the greatest President America ever had. The Dem’s had to cheat to get him out of office.
The GOP would be mad to do it.
He will run and he will win because they are all mental.
@David O Brien: He lost the last one he ran in, and THEN 6th January happened.
He’ll never win anything again.
Won’t live long enough to do it… health problems will get him
Well crooked Hillary is still free so why the Donald .
Without Twitter and Facebook to amplify him, no.
Even if he does i can’t see the campaign donations flooded in. Acquitted or not, big corporations won’t want to be associated with him, and if he couldn’t even pay for his campaign with the GOP backing him last time, I can’t see a future one having the same exposure and widespread media coverage. People go on about the amount of votes he got..for the most part lifelong republicans and Democrats vote that way regardless of who the candidate is. They aren’t all willing to storm the capital for him. 4 years in the media wilderness should see him dissappear from a lot of peoples consciousness. I’d still take him over Ted Cruz, mind.
Trump will run again and where he wins losses or draws, he will intimidate and manipulate the system to shoot himself
@Paul Maguire: Is that a fraudian slip. Here’s hoping he will
@Peter Byrne: yes indeed
Proves that there is no such thing as justice when politicians are defendant, judge, jury. Like bringing the devil to court and the court in hell
Looking to it
He will run if he’s not pushing up weeds by 2024 which would the best solution for everyone.
In 4 years time he’ll be dead or behind bars
Trump’s next step will be to get himself elected in 2022 as a Congressman for Florida and take up Office as Leader of the House – Pelosi’s job!
As such, he will then run for President again in 2024.
I doubt the GOP would want him as President, so the only chance would be to stand as an independent or form a new right wing party. He would only get votes from his right wing followers, leading to an inevitable Republican win. Somehow I don’t think the GOP would let this happen.
@Malcolm Smith: GOP never wanted him.but he won the nomination
@Malcolm Smith: doh, early morning, should say Democrat win!
The Patriot Party!!! A new bunch of wallys
Sadly…. Yes…. Well he’ll try anyway… Teflon
The GOP is unlikely to select him & split the party in the face of a resurgent multi racial, more younger Dem. ticket.
And he is unlikely to spend millions of donations on an election which has to be fought by a fractured Republican base against a growing Dem.support from across US society ,incl some disenchanted Rep. voters.
Only a calamity will upset that course, so heightened awareness of risk, of agent provocateurs foreign & homebased, will be necessary.
Dem. policies & initiatives will need to calm public concerns at home, avoid international contretemps, & build confidence throughout the Biden term.
What do you mean run again he thinks he is still president
The oft-forgotten section 3 of the 14th Amendment provides in pertinent part:
No person shall [hold any United States or state office] who, having previously taken an oath, . . .as an officer of the United States, . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the (United States), or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
Please God NO !
I think one of his retrobate sons will run.
The best way to punish Trump is to ignore him but the Media can’t or won’t.
Hopefully he will. That nation deserves nothing more.
Hope not
His son definitely will, Trump 2.0
Wheres Tricia G the last 24 hours. Unusually quiet
Too old without any creditabilaty in the world and he will be broke and hopefully in rickers Island doing hard time,
Remember his so called university where he coned millions of dollars from people and it went bust and caught many American people as he walked away from it
This is one off the things that NYC justice department are looking into
I think he will run again, but as for should he run again, no way. But a fear the republican party have nothing better to offer as a candidate. Sad but true.
No he won’t but Ivanka will and the US will be a joke again
His personality and ego will drive him on
Ah sure why not, enough mad yanks to vote him back in!
Hardly. He’ll be 77 in 2024. Candidates are far too old to offer any meaningful representation of the young demographics as it is.
Aa
I think he will die before 2024.
In 4 years time hell
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