Usually when a sentence starts with the words "Trump says," anything that follows is a lie. But on very rare occasions, Donald Trump actually tells the truth, although it's still up to the listener to find the subtext.
Trump sat for an interview at Mar-a-Lago with journalist Sharyl Attkisson on her show "Full Measure" and was asked if he could see himself running again in four years--when he would be 82 years old--should he lose the November election to Vice President Kamala Harris.
"No I don't," Trump replied. "I think that will be — that will be it. I don't see that at all. Hopefully, we will be successful."
Attkisson also asked Trump if the "four-year break" since leaving the White House has helped him "regroup" and "figure out" who he could trust as allies, Trump said: "It would have been easier if I did it ... contiguous."
"But the benefit is more than anything else, it shows how bad they were," he added.
Attkisson didn't touch on the fact that Trump has continued to falsely blame his 2020 loss to Joe Biden on widespread voter fraud despite no evidence and multiple losses in court. Trump is also currently facing federal and state criminal charges over his efforts to overturn the election results.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and has framed his multiple indictments as a political attack against him while embracing increasingly unhinged and violent rhetoric threatening "the end of our country" if he were to lose in November.