Why Donald Trump would run for US President in 2024

A person close to former US President Donald Trump explains why he could make another run for the top job at the next election.

Donald Trump is now more likely to run for president in 2024 after the New York State Attorney-General filed a lawsuit alleging “staggering” fraud committed at his company by Mr Trump and his three eldest children, according to an architects of his first White House bids.

Jason Miller, Mr Trump’s campaign adviser and a spokesman from 2016 to 2021, told News Corp Australia the investigation by attorney general Letitia James into Trump, his children, and the Trump Organisation was “the swamp fighting back”.

“I think it’s very problematic when you have an attorney general who actually campaigned in 2018 saying that she was going to lock up Donald Trump,” Mr Miller said ahead of Ms James’ announcement of a USD $250 million (AUD $375m) fraud lawsuit.

Ms James, who alleges “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” in preparing annual financial statements between 2011 and 2021, campaigned as a candidate for attorney general on the promise of investigating a president she called “illegitimate”.

In accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination in 2018, Ms James told supporters her campaign “was about that man in the White House who can’t go a day without threatening our fundamental rights”.

Donald Trump's former campaign adviser Jason Miller. Picture: AFP

While Mr Trump sued Ms James to prevent the investigation from continuing, US District Judge Brenda Sannes dismissed his case for failing to show a connection between her political opinions and how the investigation played out.

“But when you have the lead of that, the attorney general actually campaigning on that? How do you say that he’s getting a fair shake?” Mr Miller, CEO of social media platform GETTR, said.

He added that the more Mr Trump challenges establishment political parties, the more the “swamp fights back”; from the investigation into Russian election interference to the January 6 commission and the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.

“What people are seeing, is basically this witch hunt, whether we have the Mueller investigation of two and a half years, that ended up being nothing, impeachment one, impeachment two. And now we’re onto this where you have upwards of five grand juries in Federal or State courts going on at one point,” he said.

Donald Trump, pictured here in 2016, with his son Barron and wife Melania. Picture: AFP

Mr Miller, who continues to speak and advise the former president regularly, said the multiple investigations “from all angles” were an attempt to prevent him from running for a second term in the White House.

“I think the natural political reaction would be, boy, this is too dangerous of a train. Maybe I just ride off into the sunset. I think Trump’s a little bit different,” he said.

“He probably runs toward the sound of the gun and probably all of these [investigations] probably make it more likely to go and run.”

Mr Miller also warned that Australia is the next flashpoint in defence of liberty and free speech that began with Brexit, continued with the election of Donald Trump and spread to Canada’s trucker convoy.

Jason Miller, now CEO of social media platform Gettr, will make an unannounced appearance at next week’s CPAC conference after the free-speech competitor to Twitter saw a 10,000 per cent increase in Australian users in September.

It catapulted Australia from the platform’s 10th largest market to its seventh and turned the heads of political observers to the country’s growing influence on the general public in America, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.

Originally published as Why Donald Trump would run for US President in 2024