Interesting "take" from Bill Kristol (yeah, THAT Bill Kristol)...

[hlthe2b]

His response to the announcement that Trump is working on his own post-WH tell-all,
"He’s not running."

Link to tweet

[lunatica]

1. It'll be a good reference book for keeping track of his lies

Future historians everywhere are grateful!

[Girard442]

2. Trump is so deluded he probably thinks...

...he can write a tell-all book and president at the same time. Since he’s incapable of either, sure, why not?

[qazplm135]

3. he's running

1. Protects him from prosecution if he wins
2. Keeps him getting attention
3. They have moved to make it almost impossible to challenge him/run in the primary
4. Obama got re-elected.

[hlthe2b]

4. I think there is a small chance IF he'd secured a pardon from Pence and found a face-saving

way to exit (i.e., way to blame everyone else), if he really thought he was looking at a humiliating defeat.

[qazplm135]

5. did you see

my number 4 reason?

[hlthe2b]

6. Oh, yeah... and I don't discount it unless it was VERY clear he couldn't win (or cheat to win)...

Maybe it is more accurate to say "drop out" a tiny possibility since he is actually already running.

[displacedtexan]

7. Nixon negotiated a sweet deal to avoid prosecution & prison by resigning.

Trump could probably secure the same type deal if he agrees to go away, but he'd never shut up about it & would end up being prosecuted in NY anyway.

[Lock individual1 up]

10. The day he'd step down with a deal would be..

the same day he'd get indicted by New York State for State tax fraud(s).

No deal there.

[KG]

8. he's not writing either. that said - piss on bill kristol

[UTUSN]

9. He cares about *RATINGS* boom most of all- what would get more than "not running" announcement?!1

[DFW]

11. Don't you have to be literate to write a book?

If so, wouldn't that eliminate any possibility that Trump is writing one?

[Lock individual1 up]

12. If he has a table in his prison cell...

he shall not have a chair though.

Individual 1 may have a bed and sit on it while using his un-secured phone to write it.