Interview on Wednesday “Morning Joe,”George Conway, a conservative lawyer and ex-Trump ally, declared that Trump was the former president “out for vengeance”And wants to “protect himself from prosecution”With his launch of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Host Joe Scarborough referred to Trump as “a” “wounded politician,”Conway agreed to this and stated: “he does not carry the weight that he once carried.”
“[The Republican Party] is clearly not as afraid of [Trump] as they once were, they clearly don’t want to kiss the ring in the way they once kissed the ring. But the problem is, he’s still there and he still does have a chunk of the party…almost cultishly in support of him,”Conway spoke. “He’ll burn the house down before he lets anyone else take the nomination from him.”
Conway reasoned that it’s going to take a “one-on-one” challenge to defeat Trump, and that if there’s a multi-candidate race, the former president will win the majority with “30 or 40 percent”Vote
“The Republican Party has a problem,” Conway continued. “They have to fight Trump or let him self- destruct, but they’ll be in the blast radius. It’s just a terrible, terrible choice that the Republican Party faces.
Trump, who was twice impeached and defeated by Joe Biden in his second presidential run in 2020, is still under investigation for a flurry of things, including the Jan. 6 insurrection, a FBI investigation into his handling of confidential government documents post-presidency and a probe following Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia results, to name a few. Conway states that Trump’s third presidential bid is to shield himself from possible legal consequences.
“It’s blackmail, it’s a threat of violence trying to deter prosecutors by threatening civil disorder,”Conway explained. “He’s done that a number of times. If something like that does happen, then he’ll say, ‘These are the things that happen when bad people to bad things to me,’ and he wants that to happen. That’s why, in part, he’s running. It’s a dangerous thing.”
However, the judiciaries have made it clear that all the legal investigations that hang over Trump’s head will continue, regardless of his presidential bid.
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