Report: Trump Is Terrified About Going to Prison After Losing the Election, as He Should Be
“One of the reasons he’s so crazily intent on winning is all the speculation that prosecutors will go after him,” author Barbara Res told Mayer. “It would be a very scary spectre.”
Of course, when he’s not worrying about losing to Biden (“Man, it’s going to be embarrassing if I lose to this guy,” he has reportedly told advisers, according to the Times) and maybe going to prison, Trump tells himself he’s going to win, as do his sycophantic advisers who keep him in a protective bubble wherein he’ll be reelected in a landslide and also be named People’s Sexiest Man Alive 2020. Per the Times:

“One of the reasons he’s so crazily intent on winning is all the speculation that prosecutors will go after him,” author Barbara Res told Mayer. “It would be a very scary spectre.”
Of course, when he’s not worrying about losing to Biden (“Man, it’s going to be embarrassing if I lose to this guy,” he has reportedly told advisers, according to the Times) and maybe going to prison, Trump tells himself he’s going to win, as do his sycophantic advisers who keep him in a protective bubble wherein he’ll be reelected in a landslide and also be named People’s Sexiest Man Alive 2020. Per the Times:
The president, his associates say, has drawn encouragement from his larger audiences and from a stream of relatively upbeat polling information that advisers have curated for him, typically filtering out the bleakest numbers. On a trip to Florida last week, several aides told the president that winning the Electoral College was a certainty, a prognosis not supported by Republican or Democratic polling, according to people familiar with the conversation. And Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, has responded with chipper enthusiasm when Mr. Trump has raised the idea of making a late bid for solidly Democratic states like New Mexico, an option other aides have told the president is flatly unrealistic.
Most people in the president’s inner circle share his optimism about the outcome of the race, even as they fight exhaustion and the president’s whipsawing moods, interviews with more than a dozen aides and allies showed. But some advisers acknowledge that it would require several factors to fall into place. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.
Republican lawmakers have offered less rosy assessments of his prospects, and in private some Trump advisers do not argue the point. One high-ranking Republican member of Congress vented to Mr. Meadows last month that if Mr. Trump “is trying to lose the election I can’t think of anything I’d tell him to do differently,” the lawmaker recalled, noting that the aide only nodded his head in acknowledgment. “They just think they can’t do anything about it.”
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Report: Trump Is Terrified About Going to Prison After Losing the Election, as He Should Be
The president is said to be not only worried about “existing investigations” but new federal probes into matters we don’t even know about yet.www.vanityfair.com
