Trump never actually wanted to be president: Michael Moore
Republican nominee Donald Trump never wanted to become president of the United States, looking instead to use his campaign as marketing propaganda to make more financial gains, American documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore says.
“Donald Trump never actually wanted to be president of the United States. I know this for a fact,” Moore said in an article on the Huffington Post on Tuesday.
“Simply put, he wanted more money. He had floated the idea before of possibly running for president in the hopes that the attention from that would make his negotiating position stronger,” he added.
The filmmaker noted that the New York businessman is now self-sabotaging his campaign to avoid actually winning the November elections.
“Maybe the meltdown of the last three weeks was no accident, maybe it’s all part of his new strategy to get the hell out of a race he never intended to see through to its end anyway,” Moore said.
In the article, the author went on to demand that Trump just withdraw from the 2016 presidential race and let Republicans tap another candidate.
“Give your pathetic party a chance to pick up the pieces and nominate [Speaker Paul] Ryan or [2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt] Romney so they can be the ones to lose the White House, the Senate, the House, and yes, praise Jesus and the Notorious RBG, the Supreme Court,” Moore noted.
“You’re the only logical conclusion to a party that has lived off the currency of racism and bigotry and fellating the 1 percent for decades, and now their Trump has come home to roost," he concluded.
Trump has been under criticism over his inflammatory remarks and policy proposals such as temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country and building a wall along the US-Mexican border.
He is in danger of losing his grip on the Republican Party, with fears growing that the New York businessman is heading for a “landslide defeat” to Clinton in the November election.
More than 120 Republicans, including former members of Congress and Republican National Committee (RNC) staff, wrote a letter calling for the RNC to stop helping Trump, saying his actions were "divisive and dangerous."
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