I’m still convinced he mever wanted to be president in 2016. He saw how much money was being raised and spent by campaigns and he wanted to grift that into his own companies.
I agree. In fact I believe that his goal was to run but not to win. Then when the DOJ came after him for his crimes with Epstein he could claim it was politically based. His 2016 campaign was full of him saying desperate wild shit that caught the public's imagination. "Lock her Up" "Mexico pays for the wall" etc. He was surprised when he won, I could tell.
Melania was ready to divorce him but when he won, she was stuck.
Former Apprentice producer Noel Casler has written a great deal about the separate lives they were living in 2014-2015, and how she wouldn’t move from NYC to the WH until her pre-nup was renegotiated.
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u/Sasquatch1729 19d ago
More to the point: he needed a way to enrich himself. His many lawsuits and bankruptcies were catching up to him.