How much will it cost the Republicans to get rid of Trump?
My guess is it will be something north of $400 million.
I made a bet with my wife a few months ago that Trump will not be the person on the ballot in November. There are all kinds of articles going around about all kinds of efforts to get him out. The final decision will be Trumps when we realizes he is going to lose and lose big "Loser". That is something that he could not stand.
But Trump will make them pay and pay big. You see he understands that the Rethugs will do anything to protect the Senate and House or should I say pay anything. So I anticipate that Her Trump will hold up the Rethugs, pay me X and I will withdraw. It will be interesting to see how and how much is paid but at the end of the day it will be north of $400 million, because that is a number in his head.
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$400 million which eh could inflate to half a bill?
Yes, that might be enough.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
The issue is that
he's going to have to decide which ending is more humiliating. He might actually need that money to deal with lawsuits which are coming in, but in the end it is always about his ego.
The act of taking the money and backing out may be thought of as being very humiliating. Its probably less humiliating then going all the way through the race and getting raked over the coals. He may not understand that though.
If he backs out of it, I'm not sure who they would put up to replace him.
romney
if they're smart. he's already run the campaign, he's laid low since then, and it would bring every "clinton conservative" squarely back into the republican fatherland. plus, he's INCREDIBLY ROBOTICALLY SANE compared to trump.
with clinton's reliance on the right wing in november, she'd be totally fucked.
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
Trump won't quit...
...no how, no way. He'd rather lose, slathering his wounds with the salve of stolen election conspiracy theories, than be branded a quitter. Besides, the Clintons are already paying him to be in the race to ensure a Clinton victory. >8)
I want my two dollars!
In The Mind of Trump (a troubled place)
Leaving because he claims the game is rigged in less damaging then being a "Loser"
I agree
A few weeks of tanking numbers and a media that has the temerity to keep asking him to explain why he's losing? I just don't see thin skinned Donald sucking up to the indignities of an actual political campaign. To date, what he's gotten from the media has all been a wet dream. When that changes, fuhgeddaboutit.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Well, that's just it, isn't it?
Why get paid by just one side when you can get paid by both sides? That'd be the greatestmostest grift ever, now wouldn't it? Really YUUGE grift. The best grift, believe me....
The art of the steal, writ large for all to see. Nobody's done it better since the Krupp family in WW1, I think.
We get a bonus out of this, if it's true
...and it may well BE true.
If Trump gets payola from BOTH sides, there is no way he'll stay quiet about it for very long - he HAS to brag. If this is the case, it will out before the Millennials leave the planet.
But of course for the Republicans to pull off a stunt like this, it depends what the donor class puppet-masters want (they have the cash). They may actually WANT Hillary - it's not like she's actually a Democrat in terms of how she 'gets things done.'
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
This is the part that scares me
But then the question becomes, do they want to save the Republican party or do they want the short term gain from electing Clinton. Because right now, if they stay with Trump as the nom and support Clinton in the general, the Republican party as a viable political party is dead.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Morning News
Trump has stated that his campaign is struggling, and he may come up short.
Seems to me he is greasing the skids to keep the train wreck damage minimal.
But then who would replace him?
Do they bump Pence up to the top spot, claiming it's "the rules" (based on 25th Amendment)? Or does one of the other losers - rMoney, perhaps? - ride in on a white horse to the rescue?
Any of the others, maybe especially rMoney, would wipe the floor with Her Heinous. And in rMoney's case, revenge would be oh so sweet....
As long as Jebbie stays out of it! No more Clintons, no more Bushes!
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
There are no rules
I agree that Pence is their most likely option, but there is no set of rules to define who the GOP could pick. It is entirely up to them.
The parallel to this is when RFK was killed and the Democrats selected Hubert Humphrey to run.
But getting back to the GOP, they have no one who would win to step in should Drumpf depart. He's already eviscerated the entire "deep bench" and revealed them all to be losers.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
The 25th amendment doesn't apply before November
Clinton hasn't been elected yet. How can it apply?
So yeah, there are "rules". If Bernie Sanders still has his Democratic delegates from TWENTY TWO STATES--if they really were not given to Clinton during the convention--then it has to go to him. You can bet you'll be lied to again and again about that, but don't believe those lies for a minute.
Aw, shit, wait....sorry
you're talking about Trump, not Clinton.
But still, I don't think the 25th would apply before November, so if Trump is out, then the second place finisher would seem to be the go-to.
Ted Cruz. Jesus...
Well, yes and no
If I've got this correct, the delegates who are committed to the candidate may not change their affiliation. So Cruz has his 551 delegates. Trump would release his delegates, but they might not go for Cruz. They may decide to vote for rMoney en masse. Ditto with Bernie. He's almost there, and chances are good that if the Clinton delegates and the supers had to defect to someone else, he'd get enough of them to put him over the top. But it's not a guarantee against a unified front.
F the F'n D's
John Kasich & Nikki Haley?
Kasich has repeatedly refused to endorse Trump. Ohio is an important swing state in presidential elections and Kasich won it handily in the primary. The RNC decided to hold their 2016 convention in Cleveland 2 years before the event. Trump was not on the radar screen then. Kasich remains popular in Ohio. http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/06/why_gop_gov_john_kasi...
Despite the attempted makeover
Kasich has a long standing reputation as a prime asshole. He is not very well liked, even by the electorate apparently, considering how little traction he could muster during the primaries. I have no clue who would step in.
Well, Kasich
may be an asshole, but he was the one Republican who consistently out polled Clinton.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Kasich posed the greatest danger
It seems the GOP primaries are designed to produce a fringe candidate who will lose. Kasich was by far the biggest threat to Hillary. But parties don't always do what's best for them at the polls, look at how the Democrats opted for shillary over Bernie. Bernie would have had an easy lay-up in the general election.
F the F'n D's
Please Clap for your new Candidate...
... Bush.
(Yes, I do think they would be THAT stupid.)
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Clinton, Trump & Kissinger
such dear dear dear friends.
Election?? My ass. It's not even rigged. It's just expected that so many will continue on being little slaves that the royalty can do whatever they please.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Why would he quit?
He does have some people behind him who don't have to pretend to be billionaires.
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
He will quit because
he can't stand being called a loser but more importantly as he realizes he is going to lose his only thought will be to save his businesses which will fail without a cash infusion.
I'd be very surprised
if Trump backed out. Imagine the dismay of his loyal supporters! Of which there are still a great many, media reports to the contrary. We are not getting an accurate picture of Trump from the MSM, nor of the people who prefer him to Clinton.
There's a blatant anti-Trump propaganda campaign in full progress now, with the full cooperation of the "establishment" wings of both parties - aka TPTB - and the US media they largely control. His every faux pas is being exaggerated and amplified, while any reasonable opinions (he does have a few) are being either ignored or denigrated.
However, even this full court press has failed to significantly lower his polling numbers. Which, while not great, are not in the toilet either. Trump speaks in code, not in the language of America's intelligentsia. Using this code he is able to express ideas that are not allowable in polite, or mixed company, but that are nonetheless quite widely shared. People who believe in these ideas do not care what the MSM says about Trump, because they don't believe the MSM anyway.
I think it's very likely that Trump will lose this election, but also that he will come much closer to defeating Clinton than is commonly supposed. I think the race will be somewhat close. The theory that Trump, with his overblown sense of self-importance, will abandon it before the end, is to my mind untenable.
native
I think he's hit baseline support
I don't think Trump's numbers will sink much further. He has a baseline of support that's unshakeable, like Bush's deadenders 28%, Trump's is a die hard 32%. This is the week Hillary's convention bounce ought to fade, and a few news cycles of Clinton Foundation corruption, strange seizures, and State Department denials of FOIA requests ought to sway the impressionable back to the Donald.
But I do think he will lose. I've always thought his goal was to work a book out of this, which would increase his brand. His Trump brand name is his biggest financial asset, on paper, and it has been speculated that it's suffered badly since The Apprentice ended.
F the F'n D's
I wonder how much money Hillary would take to get out
An offer of 5 billion each to Trump and Clinton would make our future much brighter.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Sounds like a bargain
Can we pass the hat? Come to think of it, it would be a net gain for the treasury.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Normally I would say
that anyone replacing Trump would win, so the proper question is, What is the presidency worth to the Republicans? But in this case we have a situation where Hillary has predetermined her victory, with the collusion of Republican secretaries of state, so the proper question is, Is there a possible replacement for Trump that the election riggers would backstab Hillary for?
Once again I think the answer is anyone (except maybe Ted Cruz) since any Republican would dance in the streets if he had a chance to backstab Hillary - especially in public.
On to Biden since 1973
I don't see Pence
as being much more electable than Trump. He's more of a Christianist wackjob than Trump is which will turn off a lot of the potential voters and he'd also be starting from near zero at the last minute.