{"id":2124,"date":"2026-06-23T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:39:41","slug":"revelation-george-conway-reveals-trumps-ugly-reason-for-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"Revelation: George Conway reveals Trump’s ugly reason for running for president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new tell-all book has spilled no shortage of tea regarding the secrets of the Trump administration, and one figure who has spent time in President Donald Trump\u2019s orbit is amplifying one point in particular: the real reason Trump ran for president in 2020 and 2024. <\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, lawyer George Conway \u2014 formerly married to first-term Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and considered for roles in the administration, now a Democratic candidate \u2014 retweeted a New Yorker review of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan\u2019s Regime Change<\/em><\/em>, which digs up the current administration\u2019s dirt and contends that \u2018Trump ran in 2024 for one reason above all: \u2018This was about staying out of prison.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYep,\u201d agreed Conway<\/u>. \u201cAnd Maggie first reported in early 2019 that Trump may have run in 2020 for that very same reason.\u201d He attached a March 2019 post<\/u> by Haberman, in which she revealed that \u201csome POTUS advisers\u201d believed a key \u201cimpetus for running again\u201d was because \u201che could have criminal exposure in [Southern District of New York] cases if he isn\u2019t in office.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SDNY court presided over a number of cases against Trump, resulting in 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to pornstar Stormy Daniels. Other indictments were dismissed after Trump won the 2024 election. As the New Yorker review<\/u> put it, \u201cAfter facing multiple indictments, impeachments, and criminal convictions, Trump returned to the White House with retribution on his mind: \u2018I was the hunted, and now I\u2019m the hunter.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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The review also cited another eyebrow-raising anecdote from the book relating to the New York trials, writing, \u201cWe have always known that Trump is a narcissist. Haberman and Swan make clear the dimensions of his malady. During Trump\u2019s hush-money trial in New York, he heard that a mentally ill man, \u2018consumed by conspiracy theories,\u2019 had set himself on fire in a park nearby. \u2018Do you think he did it for me?\u2019 Trump asked an aide. \u2018Let\u2019s tell people that he did it for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond Trump\u2019s criminal motivations for office, the book shared an often embarrassing behind-the-scenes look at the president\u2019s day-to-day life and policy disasters. As the New Yorker notes, for example, \u201cTrump employs one aide, a young woman named Natalie Harp, who follows him around all day, handing him glowing notices from the right-wing press and occasionally sending him adoring letters (\u2018You are all that matters to me\u2019).\u201d In another instance, \u201cWhen Elon Musk, who raised some three hundred million dollars for Trump\u2019s campaign, blasts the President over his budget bill, Trump says, \u2018They always leave me. They always do this. This is why I can\u2019t have friends.\u2019 He instructs Harp to bring him his phone. He calls Musk twice. Both times, he gets voice mail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes, the stories revealed in the book came with dire consequences. As the New Yorker explains, \u201cHaberman and Swan provide an astonishing account of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s trip, just four months ago, to the White House Situation Room, where the Israeli Prime Minister persuaded Trump to join him in what would be a strategic catastrophe<\/u>. Netanyahu assured the President that together they would topple the Iranian regime and end its nuclear ambitions before it ever had a chance to close the Strait of Hormuz. Haberman and Swan report that the Secretary of State called Netanyahu\u2019s plan \u2018bull\u2014-.\u2019 The C.I.A. director declared it \u2018farcical.\u2019 Whatever. \u2018Sounds good to me, the President told the Prime Minister.\u2019 Everyone fell into line. Well played, sir!\u201d<\/p>\n

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