What is Trump up to?

 The Hill:

Amid new pushback to former President Trump in the wake of Tuesday’s midterm elections, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Friday that he is “willing to burn it all down” if he does not get his way.

“Trump has made clear he’s willing to burn it all down if he doesn’t get what he wants, which is maintaining his grip on the product line he’s been developing for six years: the Republican Party,” she said.

Haberman, who recently released a new book about Trump, said he is more vulnerable than he has been in a long time after several of the candidates he supported in key races lost their elections on Tuesday.

But she added that Trump has been in this position before and he has still maintained his standing in the GOP.

She said the Republican Party is on “the cusp of a broader internal war” and she is uncertain how it will play out.

“Trump has extremely few major donors who want to do anything for him right now and a number of them are having active conversations about the best way to stop him,” Haberman tweeted. “But. Again…sound familiar?”

She said many elected officials in the party will need to make a decision they have not had to before.
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Trump was a much better President than the media would like to admit.  He was successful despite bad faith attacks by the Democrats and the media from the Russian collusion hoax to bogus impeachment efforts.  The economy was stronger than the previous administration and much better than that under the Biden administration.  His foreign policy was also better than Biden's.  Despite his sometimes tempestuous personality, he got along well with foreign leaders.

But, his needless attacks on DeSantis and Youngkin are troubling.  He should be building bridges with other Republicans and not tearing them down.  If he wants to defeat them in a republican primary, he needs to do it in a way that does not attempt to disparage people he will need to support him if he is the nominee.

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