Donald Trump‘s allies fear he has sabotaged his presidential campaign by ‘choosing to lose’ and allege he may be suffering from PTSD after his assassination attempt.
Campaign insiders claim the GOP nominee has been in a ‘self-destructive spiral’ since Joe Biden dropped out of the race and is blatantly ignoring advice from his advisers, per Vanity Fair.
His campaign advisers have reportedly encouraged him to stop ‘counterproductive’ name calling and instead launch policy attacks against rival Kamala Harris, but he has ‘rejected’ their advice, saying: ‘I know what I’m doing.’
DOES DONALD TRUMP SUFFERS PTSD?
Trump, 78, has also been watching footage of the moment he was shot ‘over and over and over again’, insiders told the magazine, claiming how he has ‘been through a lot’ and ‘may actually legit have PTSD’.
Republican insiders have voiced their concerns as Trump continues to publicly display his defiance.
The ex-president, during his North Carolina rally Wednesday night, made a lackluster effort to address campaign-relevant topics, while repeatedly mentioning an elusive ‘they’ had instructed him to do so.
Republican donors and Trump campaign officials are reportedly struggling to understand why Trump ‘seems to be sabotaging’ his presidential bid, the magazine reported.
Citing apparently baseless claims he has made on his social media platform TruthSocial – including that Harris and the Democrats are using AI to create footage of her packed campaign rallies – an insider branded Trump’s online theories are ‘nuts’.
Another alleged that advisers have encouraged him to discuss policy at his campaign events, instead of using ‘juvenile nicknames’ to attack Harris.
‘I do think it’s counterproductive to call her stupid,’ one insider alleged.
Sources suspect Trump’s actions could stem from PTSD or some other trauma response to the attempt on his life at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last month.
‘He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,’ one source told Vanity Fair.
Another hypothesized that Trump has just refused to move past the fact that Biden dropped out of the race, claiming the ex-president has told others: ‘They cheated by swapping Biden.’
