After I left Donald Trump after our interview, I used to be considerably startled to go eight males in full riot gear, marching towards his Trump Tower workplace.
It was a stark reminder of the 2 assassination makes an attempt. Trump was about to fly to Pennsylvania, and these guys had been locked and loaded.
I’d been instructed that he would use the outdated Reagan line that Saturday night time: Are you higher off now than you had been 4 years in the past?
How lengthy, I questioned, earlier than he goes off script?
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I simply sat down with former President Donald Trump for our second interview prior to now few months. (Fox Information)
Trump had instructed me he was going to Arnold Palmer’s hometown within the Keystone State.
What I didn’t know was that he would describe the late golfer as “all man” and marvel on the supposed measurement of his male endowment. He additionally used the S-word to explain Kamala Harris. A lot for sticking to the script.
Critics, together with the vp, have been describing Trump as exhausted, primarily based on one second-hand quote, however he didn’t look drained to me in any respect. If he was talking in a softer voice, that’s as a result of we had been virtually knee to knee within the tower’s library room.
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This was my second sitdown with the previous president in a number of months, and I pushed him on a variety of matters. How might he name Jan. 6 a “day of affection” when police had been being attacked? Why, regardless of the “60 Minutes” modifying fiasco on the Kamala interview, would you attempt to yank CBS’s license? How will you name your political opponents “the enemy inside”? Would you interact in retribution? Will you admit the falsehood of “they’re consuming the canines, they’re consuming the cats?”
He dug in, even on that final one.Â
Whether or not you want or dislike Trump, “‘Morning Joe’ producers and different producers that watch us and all of the producers that watch us – this isn’t simply rhetoric,” Steve Bannon mentioned. “You can’t have a constitutional republic and permit what these deep-staters have executed to the nation.”
Former President Trump seems to be zeroing in on his last message to voters with Election Day simply over two weeks away. (Pool)
Kash Patel says “we are going to exit and discover the conspirators, not simply in authorities however within the media… We’re going to return after you, whether or not it’s legal or civilly,” however solely primarily based on the information and the legislation.
Now right here’s the sense I’ve gotten from my reporting.
With simply over two weeks to go, Trump has settled on his closing message. It’s immigration and the economic system. He might digress by cooking fries at McDonald’s, as a method of doubting Kamala’s teenage stint there, he might use extra profanity, however the last enchantment is predicated on these two points, interval.
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The Trump camp believes that one advert that has moved the numbers is Harris’ previous embrace of taxpayer funding for federal inmates to get gender-reassignment surgical procedure. That appeared questionable even to Charlamagne Tha God of their interview. Harris says she merely adopted the legislation in the identical method Trump did.
The previous president is attempting to rebrand his effort by promising a New Golden Age. That appears a transparent response to Harris touting a New Manner Ahead. Each are claiming the mantle of the “change” candidate with most voters seeing the nation as on the unsuitable monitor–the incumbent vs. the previous incumbent.
Trump did get off a humorous line with me about Kamala shifting to the middle. “She’s turn into MAGA. I’ll ship her a hat.”
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Donald Trump labored as a fry prepare dinner on Sunday afternoon at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, claiming he has now labored on the fast-food chain longer than Vice President Kamala Harris. (Brooke Singman/Fox Information Digital)
However Trump and his strategists are mystified by what they see because the vp’s lack of a closing message and failure to win over as many Black supporters as Joe Biden had. There’s an emphasis on abortion rights, in fact, and loud warnings about Trump being unstable and unhinged. However is there something that ties all of it collectively?
Trump has a longtime behavior of asking everybody round him, together with make-up artists, what they assume, as a form of focus group. “Are you assured?” he’s been asking recently. “Are you assured?”
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The reply he’s been listening to: Sure, however you’ll win narrowly.
