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Felon Trump's Last Option

Felon Trump's Last Option

Staying out of prison is the real reason Felon Trump is seeking a second term. His "scorched earth" campaign reminds us he should never be given that chance.

Oct 18, 2024
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The media spin ranges from “Trump’s just a normal candidate whose being maligned by the mainstream media” to “he wants to finish what he started in his first term” to “he’s only running to bolster his own ego.”

That last reason may be true and it may be one component of his determination to seek another term. But attempting to mend his fragile ego would only be a byproduct of a second Trump term. You don’t need a crystal ball or a lie detector or a Ph.D. in abnormal psychology to figure out what the real reason is.

The sole motivation for Trump to run for president again is to stay out of prison. The media are loathe to talk about this lately, perhaps because we’re in the middle of the campaign and they want to create the illusion of lack of bias. But they tiptoe around this basic truth as if it were an unexploded ordnance. With very few exceptions, the mainstream media seem to be covering this presidential election as if it were just like any other.

Trump literally has no other opt…

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