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Trump Made Threats So Narcissistic After He Left the WH That the RNC Was Forced to Placate Him and Do What He Wanted

Jonathan Karl's new book lays it all out.

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Appearing on MSNBC’s Deadline White House, legendary journalist Jonathan Karl told host Nicolle Wallace that Donald Trump very nearly took his ball and went home when he lost the 2020 election.

After trying every trick in the book to attempt to overturn the results of that election, Trump simply decided he was going to leave the GOP and start his own political party. At least, that’s what Trump told RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel.

in fact, it was only due to intervention first by Kevin McCarthy, who Trump liked very much, and then a threat from the RNC to stop paying his legal bills that Trump didn’t go do exactly what he said he would.

“They chose the path to placate him … More importantly, perhaps, was Ronna McDaniel, because Trump threatened to leave the Republican Party. I mean, he straight-on said that he was going to leave, that he was going to start his own party, He did this on January 20th, 2021. And she freaked out. And at first, pleaded with him not to do it.”

The implications of Trump leaving the GOP would be staggering. So much of the voting base of Republicans would have gone with Trump that conservatives wouldn’t have won a race for a generation.

Frankly, that would be fine with most of us. Let Trump go form the MAGA party, and what’s left of Republican voters after those who love Trump leave with him could just play spoiler for the next couple of decades.

And have no doubt that it would absolutely wreak havoc.

“What if they had told him,” Karl asked, “go ahead! Start your own party. At the depths of his disgrace after January 6th. I mean, now it’s too late, he’s built it all back.”

But that’s the inner Eric Cartman of Donald Trump. Screw you guys, I’m going home.

Andrew Simpson
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