Posted on 08/20/2022 1:08:00 PM PDT by conservative98
The FBI raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club could accelerate a widely expected presidential announcement, insiders close to the billionaire told The Post.
“There are more and more people telling President Trump to announce right now. He’s got people calling him,” said one person in Trump’s orbit.
There is an increasingly widely held belief among Trump’s friends and hangers-on that the energy and outrage generated by the federal search is the perfect springboard for an announcement in the months before the midterm elections in November.
“In the days after the raid we saw all fundraising records broken. This isn’t my first rodeo. I know what the signs look like,” said Michael Caputo, a former assistant secretary of public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services in 2020, who remains chummy with Trump.
Since the raid, Trump’s political action committee has raked in millions of dollars in new fundraising, the Washington Post reported. His Save America Political Action Committee had reported more than $100 million cash on hand before the raid, federal filings show.
Caputo, who last spoke with Trump at the Conservative Political Actions Conference in Dallas earlier this month, said he used to favor a more cautious approach, but his calculus — and advice — changed after the raid.
“My advice for the president [before] was you want elections to be about midterms and Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, but now with this raid Donald Trump is on the ballot no matter what happens in the midterms,” Caputo said.
Trump so far is approaching the matter cautiously, and not inclined to rush into an announcement, instead preferring to let the news coverage of the FBI raid unfold without his interference, other confidantes said.
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Agreed. If does it before he gets the credit or the blame. If he waits til after the midterms, he still gets the blame if they lose and no credit if they win. Therefore there is no reason to wait.
Another theory going around is the Dems fear Desantis and think they can pull another 2020 win on Trump.
Maybe but personally I think the risks are too great:
1. Trump might win
2. This outrageous raid might lose them the house and or senate
off topic: MaraLago is not a golf course....but facts aren’t important.
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