Re:Musk Proposes to Proceed with Twitter Deal at $54.20 a Share
by paxys on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:34PM
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People forget that Trump has been very actively involved in politics since at least the 80s. He has been taking out newspaper ads for or against candidates for decades. He has been a regular speaker at political conventions. He ran a presidential campaign in 2000 and was #3 in polls behind Bush and Gore (on a third party ticket). There was a lot of speculation that he would run in 2012. His 2016 run didn't happen out of nowhere, as people seem to think.
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Re:Musk Proposes to Proceed with Twitter Deal at $54.20 a Share
by mandeepj on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:03PM
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> There was a lot of speculation that he would run in 2012.
I'm not sure why people keep on forgetting it: He ran in 2012 and lost very, very badly. To the point almost no one cared and remember that.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_career_of_Donald_Tru...
So, he "unofficially" campaigned and did not get much interest
Re:Musk Proposes to Proceed with Twitter Deal at $54.20 a Share
by awb on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:06PM
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No, I didn’t forget.
I was referring to the fact that Trump (and Musk) were not accepted into the “Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Gates, Waltons, Kochs” circle OP mentioned.
So they blazed their own way, happy to ruffle feathers and make enemies along the way.