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July 14, 2022 at 05:08PM Donald Trump on 2024: \u2018I\u2019ve Already Made That Decision\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump was impeached twice, lost the 2020 election by 7,052,770 votes, is entangled in investigations by federal prosecutors (over the Capitol insurrection<\/a> and over the mishandling of classified White House documents<\/a> and over election interference<\/a>) and the District of Columbia attorney general (over financial fraud at the Presidential Inaugural Committee) and the Manhattan district attorney<\/a> (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the New York State attorney general<\/a> (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the Westchester County district attorney (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney (over criminal election interference in Georgia) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (over rules violations in plans to take his social-media company public through a SPAC) and the House Select Committee on January 6<\/a> (whose hearings are the runaway TV-ratings hit of the summer), yet on Monday, July 11, he was in a fantastic mood.<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful day in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the former president maintains a golf club and private estate to which he decamps when the Palm Beach humidity and the habits of snowbirds shut down Mar-a-Lago for the Mother\u2019s Day\u2013to\u2013Labor Day summer season, and it had been a beautiful weekend, too, one he said affirmed the choice he had made about his own future, the future of the Republican Party, and \u2014 whether he wins this time or if he loses as sorely as before \u2014 the future of the American experiment.<\/p>\n

At a rally in Alaska on Saturday, he told me by phone, his fans were adoring. \u201cMore love,\u201d in his words, \u201cthan I\u2019ve ever had before.\u201d His voice was humming with excitement. He was still in awe. After all of this time, after so many rallies, so many crowds, so many winding speeches and chants of \u201cLock her up\u201d and \u201cUSA\u201d and \u201cBuild the wall\u201d and the familiar sounds of \u201cTiny Dancer\u201d and \u201cMemory\u201d (from Cats<\/em>) and \u201cYou Can\u2019t Always Get What You Want\u201d and \u201cYMCA\u201d and that goofy little dance and the delusion and the fervor so great that it built up to an attack on the Capitol and the democratic process at the center of the Republic itself, the novelty of this had not faded.<\/p>\n

As a technical matter, the Anchorage event was on behalf of Sarah Palin and Kelly Tshibaka, Trump-endorsed candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, respectively, but like all such endeavors, it was for its star a means of discerning through a vibe check what traditional polls could not so reliably or completely tell him. And what it told him this time, he said, is that his voters \u2014 a portion of the electorate that he insists amounts to a majority of the country, though it does not \u2014 want to, and will, bring him back to power.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook,\u201d Trump said, \u201cI feel very confident that, if I decide to run, I\u2019ll win.\u201d<\/p>\n

I fixated on If I decide<\/em>. Trump is less a politician than a live-action mythological creature, and so punditry and all of the standard forms of analyses tend to fail. What would factor into such a decision for such an unusual person? \u201cWell, in my own mind, I\u2019ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I\u2019ve already made that decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t disclose what he\u2019d decided. Not at first. But then he couldn\u2019t help himself. \u201cI would say my big decision will be whether I go before or after,\u201d he said. \u201cYou understand what that means?\u201d His tone was conspiratorial. Was he referring to the midterm elections? He repeated after me: \u201cMidterms<\/em>.\u201d Suddenly, he relaxed, as though my speaking the word had somehow set it free for discussion. \u201cDo I go before or after? That will be my big decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He was thinking aloud now. \u201cI just think that there are certain assets to before,\u201d he said. \u201cLet people know. I think a lot of people would not even run if I did that because, if you look at the polls, they don\u2019t even register. Most of these people. And I think that you would actually have a backlash against them if they ran. People want me to run.\u201d<\/p>\n

He insists he cares little about the other Republicans people may want to run and denies that he even considers Ron DeSantis<\/a> a rival. \u201cI don\u2019t feel that,\u201d he said, \u201cI endorsed Ron, he was at 3, and as soon as I endorsed him, he went to first place, he was not gonna win, then \u2014\u201d I stopped him. The question was about the 2024 presidential primary, I said. \u201cYeah, no, I meant when he ran for governor, as you know, he was running and then he came to me for an endorsement because he was not, you know, he was at 3 percent.\u201d With his blessing, Trump said, \u201cthe race was over, and I think Ron knows that better than anybody. We have a good relationship, and, uhh, there may be some others soon, but that\u2019s okay.\u201d He cited a recent poll that had him beating DeSantis by a margin of 58 percent to 10 percent. (Never content, Trump had overstated things slightly: DeSantis was at 16, not 10. In the averages, meanwhile, he beats DeSantis 53 to 21 and Biden 43 to 41.)<\/p>\n

For weeks leading up to the Fourth of July, there were rumors about an announcement, but like so many things in Trumpworld, it was hard to know what was true and what was just chatter circulated by those around him looking to advance various personal agendas. Floating ideas in this way, watching them circulate through the political conversation, was a favorite tactic of Trump staffers and hangers-on during his campaigns and presidency. You could kill a bad idea this way, directing attention and input and debate so that soon it was no longer exciting to Trump, or you could plant your own idea, on the thinking that if he heard it enough, from enough people, it would soon manifest as the new plan to replace the total absence of one. Or because after a while the fake plan began to sound real and who could be sure it hadn\u2019t been the real plan all along, or because Trump had convinced himself that the stroke of brilliance he kept hearing about was his?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really was 100 percent going to announce on the Fourth of July,\u201d one person knowledgeable about the discussions said, \u201cbut the kids and Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy were against it because he would be blamed for the midterms.\u201d (The \u201ckids\u201d is a common but often incomplete term used by people with knowledge of Trump and his family, and here it does not refer to Donald Trump Jr., who, according to multiple people connected to the former president, was thought to be a supporter of the patriotic announcement date.) To me, Trump denied that he had considered it at all. As the producer of the iconic escalator ride<\/a> in the atrium of Trump Tower to announce his 2016 campaign, he considered an Independence Day declaration amateurish. \u201cI don\u2019t think I have to compete with that,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst of all, a lot of people aren\u2019t around on the Fourth of July. It\u2019s not a great time to do an announcement \u2026 I never said I was going to. That was just fake news. Somebody said that I was going to,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it was any of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dimensions of the category to which Trump refers when he says \u201cour people\u201d were always shifting around the family and the regulars. Over the course of his candidacy and presidency, Roger Stone<\/a> and Sam Nunberg<\/a> became Corey Lewandowski<\/a> became Paul Manafort<\/a> became Kellyanne Conway<\/a> and Steve Bannon<\/a> became a succession of White House chiefs of staff \u2014 all of them hated by Trump in the end (with the exception of Reince Priebus<\/a>, who was hated by Trump from the beginning) \u2014 became, postelection and post\u2013January 6, the skeleton crew of Rudy Giuliani<\/a> and Sidney Powell<\/a> and the MyPillow Guy<\/a> and the other extremist misfits who were eager to stick around once everything went to shit and nobody cared to keep them away from the principal anymore. Trump left the White House<\/a> and returned to Mar-a-Lago with a few junior aides and even fewer longtime advisers, and since then, the list of loyalists who have not betrayed or been betrayed by him has dwindled further.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe circle\u2019s very small,\u201d a current Trump adviser said. \u201cObviously, a lot of these Cabinet officials and others who have been going out there\u201d \u2014 going out there<\/em> meaning going public in opposition to Trump or his version of the election and his effort to cling to power \u2014 \u201cthey are blacklisted or cast out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The org chart for the pre-campaign is a Jackson Pollock of people hovering nearby or maneuvering in secret or making trips to Bedminster or launching into the ether the notion that they might do this or that job when the time comes. \u201cEverybody does their own thing,\u201d the adviser said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSusie\u2019s at the top of it, and she\u2019s with him constantly,\u201d the adviser continued \u2014 as in Susie Wiles, a Florida operative who had worked to elect DeSantis to the governorship only for him to turn around and engineer her firing from the 2020 Trump campaign with an accusation that she was a leaker. As Trump soured on DeSantis, he welcomed Wiles back as the CEO of his political-action committee, Save America, and to some, it seems a safe bet that she will be functionally in charge of what comes next. Then there\u2019s what the adviser called \u201cthe Stepien-Clark cabal,\u201d as in Bill Stepien, the manager of the 2020 campaign in its final stretch, and Justin Clark, one of Trump\u2019s attorneys who served as Stepien\u2019s deputy. And \u201cBossie\u2019s around,\u201d as in David, the right-wing activist and Citizens United chairman turned 2016 deputy campaign manager. \u201cHe comes and goes,\u201d said the adviser. Plus, \u201cStephen Miller\u2019s around \u2014 not tight-knit circle, but he\u2019s there. Jason Miller, same thing.\u201d Mike Pence\u2019s former scheduler now schedules the former president. And \u201cMargo \u2014 she\u2019s definitely around constantly,\u201d as in Margo Martin, a White House press aide who moved to Florida to function officially as Trump\u2019s post-presidential deputy communications director and less officially as his Girl Friday,<\/em> fetching miniature bottles of Diet Coke and printouts of polling and articles for him to hand to guests. \u201cIt\u2019s Trumpworld, man,\u201d the current adviser said. \u201cIt\u2019ll be done the way we do everything else. It\u2019ll be very last minute; it\u2019ll be a surprise. We\u2019ll cowboy it like 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a similar set of circumstances that careerist politicos cited as justification to enlist with Trump in 2016 and staff his administration. If they weren\u2019t there, they said at the time, only the worst people encouraging his worst impulses and executing his worst ideas and giving him even worse ideas would be there. Of course, those people were mostly gone by January 6. \u201cThe quality is going to be even worse, if that\u2019s imaginable,\u201d the former Trump adviser said. \u201cIt\u2019s bad. It\u2019s, like, next level. It\u2019s just one too many times of screwing people that were loyal. I definitely think people are done, like the closest of the close.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been overly trusting of a lot of people,\u201d Trump told me, \u201cYou know, that\u2019s the way it is, and that happens to a lot of people and that happens to a lot of presidents. They are very good and then somebody offers them a couple bucks for a book and they say, \u2018Wow, I never made that kind of money before!\u2019 They take the money and then they have a book that doesn\u2019t sell. Those books haven\u2019t done particularly well. The positive books have.\u201d (In fact, the harshest books of this genre<\/a> have also been the most successful: John Bolton\u2019s The Room Where It Happened<\/em><\/a> sold 780,000 copies in its first week, for instance, compared to 6,000 for Sean Spicer\u2019s The Briefing<\/em><\/a>.) \u201cI watched the un-select committee\u201d \u2014 his term of art for the January 6 hearings \u2014 \u201cas an example, and I watched, with people that I hardly even know how they got on there. They make up stories, they pretend,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cI call them the pretend witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Had he tried to grab the steering wheel when the Secret Service prevented him from following his supporters as they marched to the Capitol after his speech on the Ellipse? \u201cNot at all. No, not at all, not at all, no, that\u2019s all fake news,\u201d he said. But the mention of Cassidy Hutchinson<\/a>, the former aide who made the allegation, hit a nerve. \u201cCassidy? Cassidy\u2019s been totally discredited!\u201d he said. \u201cYou know what? If Cassidy was in a room, I wouldn\u2019t even know who she is. Cassidy has been totally discredited about her story with the Secret Service, about her story with throwing food at a wall. She\u2019s been totally discredited.\u201d (Others have, in fact, confirmed key aspects of her testimony.) He never threw a plate at a wall in the White House? \u201cNever. Never. Not my thing. And I never did it anywhere else, either,\u201d he said, \u201cAnd I never did what she said with the Secret Service. She went too far. Look, they\u2019re made up stories. She made up these stories. They\u2019re lies. And most people understand that. I think she\u2019s a sick person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he had just claimed he was so unfamiliar with Hutchinson that he could not identify her on sight, he then offered a psychological motive for her behavior. \u201cYou know, I\u2019ll tell you,\u201d he said, \u201cShe wanted desperately to come with us to Florida. And what happened is we\u2019re all set to do that. And then the other women and girls complained that they didn\u2019t want her. They came to my office \u2014 I didn\u2019t know who she was very much \u2014 but they didn\u2019t want her.\u201d He said that her testimony \u2014 \u201cthese horrible, fake stories\u201d \u2014 was a form of payback, because if any of it had really happened, she would have come forward \u201cat the time.\u201d I sent Trump\u2019s comments to Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned from the White House in the postelection, pre-insurrection period, and who helped Hutchinson hire a new lawyer (to replace her Trump-issued lawyer) and connected her with Representative Liz Cheney to arrange her explosive testimony. \u201cSo, real talk: he\u2019s definitely off,\u201d Farah Griffin said. \u201cAnd if he wasn\u2019t the former leader of the free world and didn\u2019t try to do a coup, I\u2019d almost feel bad for him.\u201d (Hutchinson declined to comment.)<\/p>\n

More complicated for the former leader and failed coup-doer: among the pretend witnesses was the real Ivanka Trump, who, in recorded testimony, said that after Election Day, she looked not to her father, who talked about a rigged election, but to then\u2013Attorney General Bill Barr<\/a>, whom she described as someone \u201cI respect.\u201d And in Barr\u2019s respectable opinion, her father\u2019s fraud story was \u201cbullshit.\u201d In a statement, the former president said that his daughter was not a credible source. \u201cIvanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social, the social-media platform he launched to fulfill his compulsive need to Tweet after Twitter permanently banned him \u201cdue to the risk of further incitement of violence\u201d in the wake of the insurrection. \u201cShe had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!).\u201d It landed with a minor shock, proof that Trump\u2019s post-insurrection, post-presidency alienation from his inner circle was near total. Not even Ivanka<\/em> was safe from his public ridicule.<\/p>\n

When I raised the subject of the testimony, Trump paused. \u201cWell, I think she wanted to be nice and respectful,\u201d he said, \u201cShe\u2019s a very high-quality person, and I don\u2019t think she wanted to hurt anybody\u2019s feelings. I thought that Barr was weak and pathetic, and I think that she doesn\u2019t want to hurt somebody\u2019s feelings.\u201d It came across like he was trying to convince himself of what he said. \u201cI\u2019m not even sure she knew what my feelings were. He didn\u2019t want to be impeached, so he didn\u2019t do his job in order to not get impeached,\u201d<\/em> he added, channeling his daughter channeling himself. \u201cI don\u2019t think she knew that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Has he talked to her about it since? \u201cI\u2019d rather not say. I\u2019d rather not say,\u201d he said. \u201cBut she\u2019s a good person, and she doesn\u2019t want to hurt people\u2019s feelings. She has respect for everybody, and there\u2019s something very nice about that, actually.\u201d Did he think that she took after him in that respect? \u201cNo,\u201d he said, with a laugh. \u201cI don\u2019t think so. We\u2019re a little different in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has a hard time expressing his emotions about his daughter, so I asked another former adviser to translate for me. \u201cHe\u2019s just trying to protect her and also himself,\u201d this person said, which they thought was usually the case, even if the way that he worded things left people thinking he meant something completely different. \u201cIt\u2019s similar to when he would suggest they\u201d \u2014 Ivanka and Jared Kushner \u2014 \u201cmove back to New York. He didn\u2019t want them to, and it wasn\u2019t a dig; it really was him trying to think of them.\u201d Emphasis on trying<\/em>. Future political endeavors, this person said, would likely feature less of the couple. \u201cI think their involvement would resemble their November 2015 to January 2016 involvement. \u2018Supportive family members\u2019 on occasion, but not involved in any decisions or process day-to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abruptly, Trump changed the subject in the most Trumpian of ways. \u201cDid you see Alaska, and did you see Las Vegas? I\u2019ll tell ya, the enthusiasm and the crowds are bigger than they\u2019ve ever been,\u201d he said. \u201cThe enthusiasm is greater than it\u2019s ever been.\u201d It does not seem a wholly conscious choice when he does this but like a feature that activates when he is nervous or uncomfortable and zaps him, like magic, into command as The Donald again, which is maybe why he is unable to resist doing it even when doing it could only make things worse.<\/p>\n

When I asked if the insurrection had embarrassed him, he disputed the premise that it was committed on his behalf. \u201cThey did it on their own behalf,\u201d he said. He disputed, too, that the insurrectionists were armed. \u201cI don\u2019t think one person in the Capitol had a weapon, not one weapon,\u201d he said. And he disputed my characterization of a swarm of MAGA hats charging the Capitol. \u201cAnd other hats. And other hats. Not just MAGA hats. Other hats,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were a lot of people there that a lot of other people don\u2019t want to talk about, but they\u2019re also one of the largest crowds I\u2019ve ever spoken to, when I made the speech \u2014 peacefully<\/em>, it should be known as peacefully<\/em> and patriotically<\/em> \u2014 but when I made the speech, it was one of the largest crowds I\u2019ve ever spoken to.\u201d He threw in a distinction between his crowd, which he said did not go to the Capitol, and the insurrectionists. \u201cNobody ever talks about that,\u201d he said, but he didn\u2019t want to talk about it much, either. He returned to the point of all of this: \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever spoken in front of a larger crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Trump, there has always been safety in performing for an audience. Amid the investigations on approach to 2024, that might mean something more literal. \u201cA lot of people are saying, \u2018You\u2019ve got to announce so you\u2019re protected. It\u2019s a witch hunt, they\u2019re trying to do this to you again. You\u2019ve got to do it before the grand jury meets with Lindsey Graham in the Georgia case,\u2019<\/em>\u201d the former adviser said. The Fulton County DA issued Graham a subpoena for his testimony regarding two phone calls he placed to the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, amid Trump\u2019s campaign to pressure him to find more votes and overturn the results of the election. Graham filed to \u201cquash the subpoena,\u201d he said Wednesday, but the former adviser said that, in private, everyone is spooked. \u201cGrand juries leak. It\u2019s not like you could say, \u2018Well, he\u2019s got six months before they make a decision about prosecuting him in Fulton County. That\u2019s a criminal case. That\u2019s the big thing he\u2019s worried about because of the tape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others may have sought to impose distance \u2014 or the appearance of distance \u2014 between themselves and Trump, but Graham has kept up his schedule of frequent golf outings with him, traveling to Florida and now New Jersey for the purpose. This person described Graham\u2019s constant presence around Trump as an effort to stay aware of his thinking and, when possible, influence it.\u00a0\u201cGraham feels like if you just let him do what he wants, then it doesn\u2019t happen out of the blue in the dead of night. The takeaway was he\u2019s not gonna last five months without announcing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump swears that shielding himself from prosecution is not among his reasons for running for president because he is not at any risk of being prosecuted. \u201cWell, I did nothing wrong, so I don\u2019t see that,\u201d he said, \u201cI did absolutely nothing wrong. I had a perfect phone call in Georgia, so I\u2019m not concerned with it.\u201d He was also not concerned with inquiries by Tish James, he said, referring to her as \u201ca racist attorney general in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was looking forward while everybody else was looking back. Presumably, I said, he wouldn\u2019t be asking his former vice-president to join his 2024 campaign? \u201cPresumably, as you said \u2026 Nobody ever voted for a vice-president,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not bored. I\u2019m very busy with everything actually. Amazingly busy.\u201d But, he admitted, \u201cnothing compares to getting things done that you can\u2019t do from any other position other than president. I made America great again, and I may have to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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