In recent weeks, former US President Donald Trump and the apparatus around him have held a number of secret and exclusive dinners in Houston, Nashville and Las Vegas.
The guest list has been as varied as the discussions:
Megarike Trump donors, high-ranking party colleagues and well-known supporters have discussed everything from martial arts to corona vaccines.
The dinners have nevertheless had one thing in common: At one point or another, Trump’s future has come up in the talks, and the possibilities for a return to the White House have been analyzed, writes Politico.
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Criticism and praise
The American online newspaper has interviewed a number of unnamed people who have attended the dinners, including the last one, which took place in Las Vegas on Friday last week.
Among others, Phil Ruffin, casino mogul and one of Trump’s super-donors, must have participated. At another dinner, Lindsey Graham, the senior Republican senator who is one of Trump’s biggest supporters, is said to have attended.
– Screamed and insulted each other
The dinners are described as informal, and the goal should not have been solely to discuss Trump’s chances in the US presidential election in 2024. The discussions have inevitably turned there anyway, writes Politico.
During the dinners, Trump is said to have received both praise and congratulations, as well as concrete suggestions on what he should and should not focus on in a possible election campaign.
The election defeat in 2020 in particular and the corona vaccines have been the subject of some heated debate, according to online newspapers.
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Disagree on vaccines
For although the Trump administration can rightly claim to have been heavily involved in the corona vaccines being developed at record speed, it is far from certain that there will be any benefit to him among Republican voters.
Vaccine skepticism is far greater in the United States than it is in Norway, for example, and a majority of American non-vaccinated people identify themselves as Republican voters.
Big ego, small shoes
Only 67 percent of the U.S. population is considered fully vaccinated, and 32 percent have received three doses.
In October 2021, when the corona vaccine had long been made available to all adult Americans, supporters of the Republican Party accounted for 60 percent of the non-vaccinated, according to a study.
The question of whether Trump himself should boast of having made the vaccines available quickly has been the subject of a heated dispute between Senator Lindsey Graham and country musician John Rich, according to Politico.
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“We’ll see”
There have also been heated discussions on the question of whether Trump should stop spreading the conspiracy theory that US President Joe Biden and the Democrats cheated their way to victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump should not have revealed whether he will actually run for re-election or not. On the contrary, it should have seemed as if Trump is still in the think tank, writes Politico.
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The goal of the dinner should not have been to convince him in one direction or the other, but get input from a bunch of people Trump should trust.
– We’ll see, Trump is said to have said to his informal adviser corps during the dinners.
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