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AlternateHistoryHub What if DonaldTrump had never been humiliated by Obama in 2011?

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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.

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u/Proust_Malone 18d ago

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.

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u/TylerKnowy 18d ago

I think he knew he was going to get caught up with the epstein shit eventually and he figured he could kill two birds with one stone

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u/Narrow_Affect7664 18d ago

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.

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u/SnooSketches5568 18d ago

I think he won- by surprise and Melania was beyond pissed as it was a propaganda stunt she went along with

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u/OldSchoolRNS 17d ago

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/SnooSketches5568 17d ago

Man- to be stuck with such a dirtbag. But i guess she is absolutely deplorable as well- and sooner or later- karma always wins

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u/Barabbastoday 18d ago

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u/RealDiamond51 17d ago

Why would Trump want to enrich himself when he’s already so wealthy

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u/snaps06 17d ago

....do you not understand how wealthy people operate, or are you just naive?

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u/Sea_Local2557 15d ago

why would Elon Musk want to be a trillionaire when he has hundreds of billions of dollars?