Trump is making noises about a 2024 run to get rich off the 'rubes': ex-White House official

President Donald Trump will be running for president for a third time in 2024, but the effort will be largely geared towards personal enrichment, a former official explained on Saturday.

MSNBC's Alex Witt interviewed Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump's communications director in 2017.

"Is he going to run in 2024 or is this just a great excuse to fundraise?" Witt asked.

"I think it's both," Scaramucci replied. "I think he's going to run in 2024, this is the most money he's ever made -- just imagine making $300 million off of these rubes that he's coning after the election with his big lie. So he'll run again in 2024."

"Will he go to the finish line? Maybe not," he continued. "There are 10 or 12 Republicans that see themselves as a future president. They're going to try to find ways to undermine him, obviously Governor Nikki Haley already started that process, so I don't know if he gets to the finish line, but why would he not run and raise money off the rubes that he's raising money from?"

"Right, but if he runs, do you really think he doesn't get the nomination?" Witt asked. "Today he would, there's no doubt today he would get it."

"I think it could get interrupted by the potential criminal investigations that are going on and the potential indictments, so if he runs and there are no indictments and I think he has a clear path to that nomination, and that's why Sen. McConnell said 'Of course I'm going to support him' -- which is even more levels of hypocrisy, but yes, he runs, he wins the nomination," Scaramucci replied. "There is risk here, though, because of his potential tax fraud case and other cases -- even the D.C. case related to the insurrection is a potential speed bump to him getting that nomination."

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