Now that he’s facing the very real possibility of being indicted on criminal charges in New York, Georgia, and by the Justice Department, failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is likely looking for a way to avoid running for a second term in office according to a former adviser to the disgraced ex-president.
Anthony Scaramucci, who served as White House communications director in the Trump administration for a week and half in 2017, made that prediction Friday evening during an appearance on CNN, according to Mediaite.
Host Anderson Cooper asked Scaramucci if he thought multiple indictments against Trump might cause him to change his mind about running. Scaramucci replied, “I do think that’s going to impact him. It’ll be a very time-consuming. But I think the absence of his family members in this campaign is gonna knock him out of the race. He just doesn’t do well without them.”
Scaramucci added that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s refusal to play any role in a 2024 campaign:
“They want nothing to do with this campaign, Anderson. And they were conspicuously absent from the courtroom. So, I think he’s gonna have a hard time. He may not even make it to the Iowa Caucuses – not because of anything other than the combination of the lawsuits and the family’s absence.”
Clearly taken by surprise, Cooper asked, “Wait, so you think he might actually drop out?”
Scaramucci:
“Well, he would fake an illness or something like that. He would come up with a very clever excuse, but, but–I don’t even–listen, you get hit with two more lawsuits like this, maybe another arrest and arraignment in Georgia and your family’s nowhere to be seen and you’re somebody like Donald Trump, it’s possible. You can’t rule it out.”
Donald Trump has always been a coward. His bluster and bullying are smokescreens for his weakness and self-loathing. It’s not hard to imagine him passing on a second run for the White House in order to avoid the humiliation of losing yet again.