According to a new report from Rolling Stone, Donald Trump has told at least three people that he's definitely running for President again in 2024. This not only undermines his followers' claims that he'll be reinstated as President, but it could also raise some serious campaign finance legal issues if he continues to raise and spend money. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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According to a new report from rolling stone. Donald Trump has apparently been blabbing to some of the folks he's had dinner with over the last few months that he is in fact running for president again in 2024, the rolling stone article, they spoke to, uh, a former RNC official who says that they have spoken to people and at least three of them have had dinner with Donald Trump in recent months. And he told them I am running for president in 2024.
Here's a quote. I
Have three who've had dinner with him in the last couple months. All three reported that his current plans are to run for president in 2024. Now whether he does or not is a different issue, we've still got three years to go. But he's telling people that, uh, this, honestly, not that shocking, right? We know that Donald Trump wants the attention on him, wants the spotlight on him. He knows that when he tells people this they're going to blob about it. And honestly, if he was playing some kind of three dimensional chess, this would play right into that. Right now he gets in the news. Oh, is he? Oh, it sounds like he is. People say he is, but Trump's not that smart. Trump has 100% not that smart. Oh, there's plenty of things. He's good at strategizing like this. No, I'm sorry. That absolutely is not a thing
That Donald Trump is capable of doing
What he's likely doing is being a little braggadocious, you know? Oh yeah. I'm told I'm running for president yet. I am running for president. You are sitting here with a former president slash presidential candidate at your dinner. How many people can ever say they did that. But again, whether he does, whether he even
Can, you know, depending on what happens in New York, that's a whole nother
Story. We do have three years to go. So things
Change and things I've actually
Changed pretty rapidly within the Republican party. Ever since Donald Trump left office, his support from the public has actually decreased, which usually when a president leaves office, even the bad ones like George W. Bush, their approval rating actually increases
After,
You know, the longer they've been out of office, not the case with Trump
Going down
The public is still rejecting him. So yeah, a presidential campaign is absolutely going to be a long shot,
But more importantly, and more
Relevant to right now, uh, reports came out last week saying that if Donald Trump is in fact actually running for president, if he has made up his mind, then suddenly the laws that apply to him with the federal elections
Commission change. You see, you can't
Say that you're running for president still raise money and not report it to the FEC because, and the law's a little weird here. I'm going to do my best to explain it. But here it is, the FEC does allow a, what they call testing the waters of period for anyone considering running for president. During that period, there are different actually much larger limits to what people can donate to a prospective campaign. Once you make up your mind, the official limits kick in. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that you have to formally declare. It just says that once you've decided basically that you are running for president, you have to start reporting what you're bringing in. You have to report your expenditures, different campaign, contribution, limits, kick in. There's all kinds of legal issues that arise. If you say you're running for president, but you aren't following
These rules. So that's something
That Donald Trump may want to be leery of. Again, if he is somehow playing three-dimensional chess here, trying to work the media over telling people this, knowing it's going to leak.
Keep in mind if you say it. And if people
Can verify that suddenly you're playing under a whole new set of rules and I guarantee you he's not paying attention to
Them. And that could come at a hefty legal price.
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