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Michael Moore: I Know 'For a Fact' Trump Doesn't Want Presidency

Michael Moore: I Know 'For a Fact' Trump Doesn't Want Presidency

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By    |   Wednesday, 17 August 2016 12:56 PM EDT

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore said he has evidence Donald Trump has no interest in being the nation's commander in chief and has made a personal plea to the Republican presidential nominee to drop out of the race.

"Don, if you're reading this, do it soon. Give your pathetic party a chance to pick up the pieces and nominate [Paul] Ryan or [Mitt] Romney so they can be the ones to lose the White House, the Senate, the House and yes, praise Jesus and the Notorious RBG, the Supreme Court," Moore wrote on his website, the "RBG" referring to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

"Don't be too hard on yourself. You're only the logical conclusion to a party that has lived off the currency of racism and bigotry and [pleasuring] the 1 percent for decades, and now their Trump has come home to roost."

Moore, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal whose documentaries include "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine," claimed Trump never actually wanted to be president.

"I know this for a fact. I'm not going to say how I know it," Moore wrote, claiming the seeds of Trump's candidacy began as a way to get a better deal with NBC as host and star of the wildly successful reality shows "The Apprentice" and "Celebrity Apprentice."

"Simply put, he wanted more money. He had floated the idea before of possibly running for president in the hopes that the attention from that would make his negotiating position stronger.

"But he knew, as the self-proclaimed king of the dealmakers, that saying you're going to do something is bupkus — DOING it is what makes the bastards sit up and pay attention … He decided to run for president."

Instead of getting a better TV deal, "Trump, to his own surprise, ignited the country, especially among people who were the opposite of billionaires … Trump fell in love with himself all over again, and he soon forgot his mission to get a good deal for a TV show … he was King of the World! …

"[Then] it finally dawned on him … 'I'm actually going to be the Republican nominee — and my rich beautiful life is [expletive] over!' … By this past weekend, the look on his face said it all — 'I hate this! I want my show back!'"

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore says he has evidence Donald Trump has no interest in being the nation's commander in chief and has made a personal plea to the Republican presidential nominee to drop out of the race.
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