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Trump is plotting a campaign against Republicans who voted to impeach him
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Donald Trump is plotting a comeback revenge tour targeting GOP defectors after his Senate impeachment trial.
Trump is talking with aides about a road trip to campaign against Republicans who supported his removal.
"I'm sure he wants to get out a roulette wheel with all their faces on it," said a Republican close to Trump.
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A Donald Trump comeback tour is in the works once he's beyond a second Senate impeachment trial, Insider has learned.
That's the strategy emerging out of Mar-a-Lago, the Trump-owned private club in South Florida where the former president now lives. Trump and his small post-White House team are holed up there planning out potential trips to campaign against Republicans who voted in support of his removal from office, according to 6 people close to the former president.
"I'm sure he wants to get out a roulette wheel with all their faces on it," said one of the Republicans who remains tight with Trump.
For now, the ex-president is shying from the spotlight as House Democrats prepare to make their case next week on the Senate floor that he bears direct responsibility for his supporters leading a deadly riot at the US Capitol on January 6th.
Nobody in Trump's orbit believes he will ultimately be convicted by the Senate. That would require a two-thirds vote, something that has never happened before to a current or former president in more than 230 years of American history.
But Trump and his staff also know they need to be careful before the Senate trial. They're getting advice that it's not the right moment for him to go back out in public quite yet delivering stemwinding diatribes at campaign rallies targeting incumbent Republicans.
"Even he recognizes that we have Trump fatigue," said the Republican close to Trump. "Even he knows that you can get overexposed, and he wore the electorate out. And that was part of the problem. He clearly wore the country out with his behavior between the election and the inauguration."
"Honestly, Twitter did him a favor," the Republican added, referring to the social media company's lifetime ban on the now-former president.
Minus that free megaphone, some Trump advisors are pushing him to speak publicly as soon as possible. They're concerned that he may be losing his grip on the GOP the longer he stays quiet. And there's an argument that Trump staying silent for too long could undermine his chances to be a serious contender to once again secure the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, a former Trump campaign advisor noted.
The Republican electorate for now still seems to be squarely with Trump.
Roughly three quarters of Republican voters (76 percent) still believe Trump's incorrect claim that the election was stolen from him, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. A little less than half of all voters said Trump shouldn't be convicted for his role inciting the January 6 riot.
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Donald Trump outside the entrance of Mar-a-Lago on December 21, 2016.
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Florida man stewing
Trump celebrated his first impeachment acquittal last February at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, where he held aloft copies of major newspapers sporting banner headlines proclaiming his survival. After that Senate trial, though, Trump only had one Republican to attack for crossing party lines to convict him: Mitt Romney.
The numbers are already larger this time around.
If Trump does indeed hit the road, Republicans familiar with the plans told Insider that Trump's targets are expected to center around the 10 House Republicans who voted for his impeachment last month like two-term Rep. Anthony Gonzalez. A former NFL wide receiver, Gonzalez represents a Northern Ohio district where Trump won handily in 2020.
The ex-president has also been eyeing any Republican senators who cross him. Trump last month before his Twitter account got shut down urged South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to mount a 2022 primary challenge against incumbent Sen. John Thune after Thune spoke out against the then-president's efforts to challenge the certification of the 2020 Electoral College results.
Trump's list of Senate targets could also include Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a three-term Alaska Republican and outspoken Trump critic who joined Democrats last month to vote in favor of proceeding with the upcoming Senate trial. Murkowski has filed to run for a fourth term in 2022 and remains popular in a state where she won re-election back in 2010 as a write-in candidate. Trump won Alaska last November by 10 points.
The former president's advisors are also trying to be careful as they plot any big return to the spotlight. They don't want Trump to swing away at every target.
"It's too soon to discuss specific 2022 campaign activity," Trump spokesman Jason Miller told Insider.
In the two weeks since he left office, Trump has been stewing at Mar-a-Lago, his members-only Palm Beach estate overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. He's been struggling to settle on a single clear path forward. He's also angry about not being able to blast his opponents over Twitter, according to Republicans in touch with him and his small post-presidency team.
The Trump team's calculations come after his first stinging political defeat as a former president.
His top allies targeted Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican and No. 3 in the House GOP ranks after she voted to impeach Trump. Top Trump allies like Reps. Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz said they had the votes to remove her from leadership but on Wednesday night the House Republicans instead voted 145-61 to keep her there.
The vote very likely infuriated Trump, said the Republicans close to the former president. This source added that Trump is itching to get back in public so he can blast away at the House and Senate Republicans supporting his impeachment.
One place where Trump doesn't appear likely to go anytime soon is the US Capitol. On Thursday, House Democrats preparing to prosecute their case in the Senate sent a request for Trump to testify under oath. But Trump's lawyers quickly rebuffed the request.
Some GOP insiders say they anticipate it won't be long until Trump makes his public return.
"Trump is clearly shell shocked from the reaction to January 6 and losing his social media platform," said Doug Heye, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee. "We don't know how long that will last, but it's safe to assume we'll be hearing from him at some point."
Other Republicans say they are hoping Trump stays away and also skips the revenge.
"Trump would do best for himself and the party by laying low for a few years," said Mike DuHaime, a longtime Republican strategist who worked for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's political campaigns.
DuHaime also referenced another one of his old bosses, former President George W. Bush.
The country's 43rd president ended his second term still fighting two foreign wars and amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression but now is "more popular now than when he left office, partially because he stayed above petty politics and became a statesman, and because history can judge his accomplishments and intentions better in retrospect," he said.
"Trump will not help his own popularity," DuHaime added, "by further dividing a party that for the most part stood with him throughout his controversial presidency."
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Biden presidency getting overshadowed? What you watching OAN?
I'm giving you a second chance, Mike. You need to clean your act up though
Aight. Bet 
