CNN's John Avlon breaks down the stakes for President Donald Trump in the upcoming 2020 US election and what it could mean if he loses.
Donald Trump’s main motivation for running for re-election is that if he wins, he can postpone a lot of legal problems for another four years.
In his video, John Avlon cites Prof. Daniel Hemel of University of Chicago Law School who wrote in the Washington Post:
If there is one piece of information that helps to explain why Trump really might resist a peaceful transition of power, it is this: The stakes for Trump this fall are far greater than for past presidents seeking reelection. For him, a loss would mean not only the end of a political career, but also — potentially — personal and financial ruin.
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What does this mean for November? It means Trump has every incentive to fight with no holds barred. He is not in the position of previous U.S. presidents. He is more like a president of Peru or Egypt, where leaving office often means entering a cellblock.
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[D]on’t expect Trump to fight fair. As the Times revelations show, he is fighting for much more than an election. We can take a certain amount of schadenfreude in the president’s tax problems and their financial as well as possible criminal consequences. But we should remember that his tax problems might soon become our problem, too.
Yep, we know Trump isn’t going to fight fair. That’s why we need to push back.
One thing everybody can do is to vote AND to get everybody we know to vote him out of office. The greater Trump’s losing margin, the less likely he will be able to stir up trouble.
