Tuesday, 23 November 2021 (YJC)_ Trump’s former attorney says the former president will not run again after losing five states by narrow margins in 2020.
Donald Trump’s pollster thinks he will run for the White House again in 2024, with a path to victory through five states he lost to Joe Biden in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
But Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and fixer who is fresh out of house arrest, thinks he will not.
“His fragile ego cannot stand to be considered a two-time loser,” Cohen said on Monday.
Trump lost the five states in question by narrow margins – defeats he refuses to accept, continuing to push the lie that Biden won thanks to electoral fraud, which fueled deadly violence at the US Capitol on 6 January.
Cohen, one of more than 10 Trump associates who have been convicted of crimes, has completed his sentence for his role in illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump’s 2016 campaign and lying to Congress about a project in Russia.
“Donald will not run,” Cohen told CNN. “Why? Because first of all, he has an incredibly fragile ego. He lost by 9m votes the first time [actually a little more than 7m]. He will lose by more than 9m the second and his fragile ego cannot stand to be considered a two-time loser.”
Asked if Trump would again react to defeat by simply saying he won, Cohen pointed to Trump’s political fundraising, which has brought in more than $100m.
“This is nothing more than the world’s greatest grift,” Cohen said. “He’s bringing in money greater than when he had the Trump Organization with all of its assets. So why would you give this up?
“He will drag this thing on all the way to the end. I have an original document … whereby he decided not to run in 2011. And of course, the reasons he talked about was his real estate, it was, you know, The Apprentice and so on.
“He’s going to do the same thing. The only difference this time versus last is that he’s making money each and every day by sending out more texts. ‘Oh, Donald won. Send $25.’”
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