This would be a bombshell of epic proportion.
Trump confidant Roger Stone is known for making bombastic claims. But this one takes the cake. (RELATED: Roger Stone Says Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Could Retire “Any Minute Now”).
The Washington Examiner reports:
Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone pledged to have someone lined up to challenge Vice President Mike Pence should he run for president in 2020.
During an interview Friday with Big League Politics, a right-wing news website, Stone suggested that President Trump may not ultimately run for re-election if his first term is adequately successful and denounced the possibility of a 2020 ticket with Pence and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Roger Stone believes @realDonaldTrump won’t run again in 2020 to be @POTUS IF his first term accomplishes what he set out to do.
What do YOU think?
Have YOU seen any signs pointing in either direction yet?https://t.co/L8lKWH4EEw#Trump2020
— Jerry DiDomenico (@SurvivorFan2016) May 20, 2018
Stone says that if Trump gets to the point where he accomplished all of his goals before his re-election campaign really starts to ramp up, he’ll bow out gracefully, rather than run for a second term. Here’s what he said:
“I don’t think that it is a foregone conclusion that the president will definitely run. If at the end of the next three years the economy is very strong, he has built the wall, sealed our borders, he’s reformed our immigration policies, he has redone these trade agreements so that they are beneficial to the United States, that he has got a peace agreement in Korea — I could see him saying, ‘You know what? I don’t need this anymore. I made America great again. I have kept my promises to the American people. I’m heading off to the golf course.'”
Now, given Democrat obstruction and the weak-kneed leadership of Republicans in Congress, it’s hard to see Trump getting his full agenda through in his first term. He’s getting too much pushback from impeachment-happy Democrats and establishment Republicans to even fund his border wall, let alone reform our entire immigration system.
Trump has already confirmed that he’s running again in 2020, and has even tapped the former digital director of his campaign, Brad Parscale, to manage his re-election campaign. (RELATED: President Trump Confirms 2020 Re-Election Bid on Drudge Report).
It’s unlikely the President would pull back after making the announcement that he plans to run. But stranger things have happened, and Stone remains a close, personal confidant of the President.
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