We'll let it die when HE lets it die.
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We'll let it die when HE lets it die.
Last week, it was reported that the former president has already amassed a $102 million (£73 million) ‘war chest’ thanks to donations from supporters great and small, who answered his strident online demands to help him expose the vote-rigging and save democracy.
Money is all in U.S. politics and Trump has reportedly raised more of it than any other Republican.
His closest rival, Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only black Republican in the U.S. Senate, has raised less than $8 million.
Republican Party sources outside Trump’s circle suspect a lot of this talk about election planning is hot air and scoff at the idea that he has a ‘cabinet’. They say party elders would privately prefer Trump to simply go away and that his continued influence only helps Democrats by allowing them to tar any Republican associated with the divisive Trump.
But they can see that the Trump name works wonders in revving up rank-and-file supporters and activists, few of whom have shown much sign of deserting him even after the attack on the Capitol.
Trump remains the party’s biggest money-spinner and insiders say Republican bosses have convinced themselves they simply cannot survive financially without him.
Political funding in the U.S. is far more opaque than in the UK but it’s clear much of Trump’s war chest comes from small contributions.
Supporters are being flooded with online offers to buy not only the predictable Trump-branded drinking glasses, T-shirts and $45 signed pictures, but ‘Trump Life Membership’ (minimum donations start at $5) and, unveiled last week, the Trump Card, a credit card-style, blood-red ID card with his signature in gold lettering and an angry-looking eagle that critics have likened to Nazi insignia. Trump says he wants every ‘patriot’ to carry one.
Meanwhile, the mega-donors are throwing in millions. A shadowy cabal is reportedly funding an ‘audit’ of the 2020 vote in Arizona (which narrowly went to Biden) that Trump expects will expose the ‘Big Lie’ of the ‘stolen’ election.
Trump has talked about being ‘reinstated’ after widespread election fraud is exposed some time this year. Well, nobody’s holding their breath — but what about 2024?
He has yet to say definitively whether he’ll run again for the White House — naturally, the former host of The Apprentice wants to keep everyone on the edge of their seats.