2024 Election

‘I Can’t Wait Until This Guy Dies’: Ex-GOP Congressman Says Many Republicans Are Hoping for Trump’s ‘Mortal Demise’

As Donald Trump grows older, there are apparently some Republicans who wouldn’t mind if time hurried things along a little bit. That’s according to former GOP Rep. Peter Meijer, who, in an interview with a journalist from The Atlantic, said there are “a lot of folks,” among the ranks of MAGA Republicans who hope for Trump’s “mortal demise,” Insider reports.

“I want to be clear: I’m not in that camp. But I’ve heard from a lot of people who will go onstage and put on the red hat, and then give me a call the next day and say, ‘I can’t wait until this guy dies,'” Meijer told journalist McKay Coppins.

Coppins was working on an opinion piece, and spoke to a dozen anonymous sources inside the GOP, including current and former Republican lawmakers and analysts. Meijer, a Michigan Republican, was among those he spoke to. He voted for Trump’s impeachment but lost his seat during the 2020 GOP primaries.

Meijer didn’t say which Republicans told him they wished Trump would die, and representatives for the former congressman didn’t respond to Insider’s requests for comment.

But Coppins noted the Republicans he interviewed said one way to get rid of the former president is to simply wait for him to die, especially considering his age and fast-food-laden diet.

During an interview Monday on CNN, Coppins was asked about his opinion piece and he admitted he was “taken aback by how often” he heard GOPers joking about Trump’s death.

“I thought it was kind of a morbid, dark joke at first,” Coppins said. “But I heard it so often that it started to become clear that this was actually what a lot of Republicans believe, and it just speaks to the desperation in the party.”

But there were also some Republicans who “clung to a long-held delusion” that Trump “would become a different person and bow out graciously, and make room for the next generation of Republican leaders,” Coppins said. One can’t blame them for wishing Trump would bow out with grace, but that’s not Trump. He’s the type that will keep fighting until the bitter end.

You can watch the interview below.

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