Susan Glasser: Trump Is ‘Not a Man Who Is Eager or Even Willing to Relinquish the Stage’

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GLASSER: “Well, one thing we know pretty clearly, and certainly Peter and I saw this in our interviews with him at Mar-a-Lago, is that this is not a man who is eager or even willing to relinquish the stage. And he seemed desperate to reinsert himself into American politics. We first met with him in the spring of 2021, right after he lost, and, you know, he was in search of a crowd, any crowd, even his own paying customers at Mar-a-Lago who would stand up and applaud him as he came into dinner on his own terrace. Donald Trump, you look at the jealousy that he has at some of the emerging potential candidates for 2024, like Ron DeSantis. He’s already said, well, I made him. And, you know, you — it’s hard to see. The other thing is, with these metastasizing investigations of Donald Trump, and as he faces potential legal jeopardy, he seems to believe that running for president again might provide him a certain kind of armor, you know, that it would be protection and maybe would stop the Justice Department from indicting him. But to the point about the midterm elections, you know, Donald Trump continues to be wanting to make it a story about Trump, Trump, Trump. Mitch McConnell, even with vile attacks like this, the bottom line is that Mitch McConnell has said that he would support Donald Trump in 2024.”