President Trump

Rich and Co., on today’s edition of The Editors, discuss a (nearly) comprehensive list of potential Trump VP picks and consider the pros and cons of each. They also touch on what Trump might be looking for in a VP.

Maddy thinks he’ll be focused on loyalty. “If you look at his logic in 2016,” she says, “. . . I think Trump obviously was trying to do the typical thing that you do, which is you find a candidate who can balance you in some way. So Mike Pence is steady, he’s religious, he’s Midwestern. And that was very appealing for pro-lifers for whom Trump was an unknown quantity.

He must demand justice under America’s keystone civil-rights law.

“Stand up to an administration which is too male, too pale, and too stale,” candidate Letitia James told supporters in 2018 when she ran for New York state attorney general. “Too male, too pale, too stale!” she chanted as the crowd roared. “Too male, too pale, too stale!”

Imagine if a white Republican man were on the stump: “Stand up to an administration that is too fem, too tan, and too woke,” he might say, perhaps while running against James — a woman, black, and far-left Democrat.

The firm behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social went public on Tuesday at a price that values the minnow social network at more than $9bn.

Shares in Digital World Acquisition, the shell company with which Trump’s social media business is merging, have been surging since the turn of the year – and rallied by more than 40% as it combined with Trump Media & Technology.

The firm is trading under the ticker symbol “DJT”, using Trump’s initials.

A New York appeals court on Monday paused for 10 days a massive civil fraud judgment against former President Donald Trump, and sharply reduced the bond he would have to post to obtain a longer stay to $175 million.

Trump’s lawyers in a court filing last week said that it was “impossible” for him to get an appeal bond of $454 million to satisfy the judgment in that amount, having approached more than 30 surety companies without success.

h/t DS

Next week, Trump could make over $4 billion when his media company goes public, removing all doubt about his billionaire status.

And you can stop asking if he would have been better off putting his inheritance in a savings account in the 70s.

I expect Trump to leave a 15% tip for Leticia James and the Democrats because they made his windfall possible by hunting him and censoring him for years. You can call it a bond, not a tip, if you prefer.

h/t Mauser

Donald Trump appears to be scrambling for funds to pay a $464m (£365m) fraud fine. Could the stock market ride to his rescue?

Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, is poised to become a publicly listed company, after a majority of shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp voted on Friday to acquire it.

Mr Trump is due to have a stake of at least 58% in the merged company, worth nearly $3bn at Digital World’s current share prices.

It’s an astonishing potential windfall for Mr Trump in exchange for a business whose own auditor warned last year it was at risk of failure.

For cultural and economic reasons the blue-collar vote is lining up with Trump.

The trend for the past decade has been that the working-class, blue-collar voter goes R. This still sits oddly with many, especially old-time Dems, but it has held sway the past two or three presidential elections.

Donald Trump made it happen in 2016, cobbling together a working-class voter coalition with his energy and man-of-the-people vibe that carried him to narrow victory across the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin and put him into the White House. It brought him to within a sliver of victory in 2020, as he succumbed to Joe Biden by the slimmest of margins in those same states and lost the electoral college vote.

In his under-recognized 2007 book Think Big and Kick Ass: In Business and Life, Donald Trump dedicated a chapter to “Revenge.” He wrote: “My motto is: always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.”

Vengeance is a lifelong theme in the Donald J. Trump story, narrated as it is by Donald J. Trump. In 1992, he told the interviewer Charlie Rose: “I love getting even with people.” He’s fond of quoting Alfred Hitchcock: “Revenge is sweet and not fattening.” In January this year, after his primary victory in New Hampshire, he reiterated: “I don’t get too angry — I get even.”

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that Donald Trump can stay on the election ballot in Colorado, handing him a major victory in his quest to return to the White House.

It was a fatal blow for a group of states trying to kick Trump off the ballot and came just 24 hours before 15 states vote on Super Tuesday.

In an immediate reaction Trump declared on his Truth Social network: ‘BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!’

The Supreme Court is expected to announce a decision on whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to hold presidential office on Monday.

The New York Times reported Sunday that the Court announced that it would issue at least one decision tomorrow – which suggested it would rule on Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s primary ballot.

Colorado is holding its presidential primary on Super Tuesday, along with 15 other states and one U.S. territory.

Donald Trump’s federal trial for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is likely to remain on hold for several more months while the Supreme Court takes up his argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president.

In a one-page order Wednesday, the court set an expedited schedule to hear the immunity issue, with oral arguments to be set during the week of April 22. In the meantime, proceedings in the trial court will remain frozen.

h/t DS

Elvis has left the building.

So has Trump, and he left victorious.

The “primary show” will have a few encores, mainly on March 5 (Super Tuesday), when multiple states vote, but the outcome is certain. With his decisive win in South Carolina, Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination. He easily defeated his last opponent, Nikki Haley, in her home state.

During the Black Conservative Federation’s annual gala in South Carolina, at which he received the “Champion of Black America” award, former US President Donald Trump declared US President Joe Biden “a very nasty and vicious racist,” and claimed that Biden discriminates between Black and white people.

“Joe Biden really has proven to be a very nasty and vicious racist. He’s been a racist,” Trump said. “Whether you like it or don’t like it. I happen not to like it. Biden spent years palling around with notorious segregationist you know that.”