KEY POINTS

  • Trump may run for president in 2024
  • A campaign official says Trump may announce the bid before Inauguration Day
  • Trump's niece believes he would face several lawsuits after stepping down

President Donald Trump may be considering a presidential bid in 2024, a plan that his niece calls “preposterous.”

Trump has repeatedly made false claims that he won the 2020 election and that his presidency was stolen from him. Launching a bid for 2024 would allow him to continue spreading conspiracy theories about Biden’s presidency once he takes office in January, three sources with knowledge of the matter told NPR.

"I think he'd probably like to do it. And so dangling it out there is something that's very real, very real. I think anyone except for Mike Pence in 2024 is really going to be frozen for a while on this stuff,” a campaign official said.

On Tuesday, Trump attended a White House Christmas Party, where he told a crowd of Republican National Committee members that he is looking to make a comeback campaign in 2024, Politico reported.

“It’s been an amazing four years,” Trump said. “We are trying to do another four years. Otherwise, I’ll see you in four years.”

Trump may announce his 2024 bid by the end of the year or shortly before President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, according to a former campaign adviser.

“He'll probably announce the night before the inauguration so that that becomes a conversation all throughout Joe Biden's inauguration,” the former adviser said.

While campaign advisers believe Trump will run for president again in 2024, Mary Trump — the president’s niece — shot down the idea as “preposterous” during a Thursday appearance on “The View.”

“I think that this initially was probably an idea that was floated to him in order to assuage his wounded ego, after he so decisively lost to President Biden. And I think it's something he clings to as a way to maintain his relevance, which I suggested earlier is going to wane precipitously after the inauguration,” Mary said.

The 55-year-old psychologist said Trump would unlikely run for president due to several reasons, including the possibility of facing severe charges “at the state level” and multiple lawsuits, The Hill reported.

“There are several reasons Donald won’t run. One of them, and perhaps the most important, is that he may be facing some serious charges at the state level. Plus there is some lawsuits that he will have to grapple with, and of course there is his financial exposure. So, I don't — I don't see that happening,” she said.

Mary has become a prominent critic of the president, who authored a scathing book on him. In her book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” she diagnosed her uncle as a narcissist.

This White House handout photo released October 4, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump working in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland a day earlier after testing positive for Covid-19
This White House handout photo released October 4, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump working in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland a day earlier after testing positive for Covid-19 The White House / Joyce N. BOGHOSIAN