Transactional Analysis

Trump signs picture of Trump ..

...depiction assassination attempt by "Artlanta."
He had Trump sign the piece before exiting stage, taking it with him. Trump: "I brought him up because I thought he was going to give it to me. He just got me to sign it. I got nothing out of that" pic.twitter.com/8ED4oXns7Z

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) August 3, 2024

Trump has started making a regular practice of endorsing two people in the same race. He did it once a long time ago, in Missouri, but has done it at least four times in recent days.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 4, 2024

NEW: Trump repeatedly attacks Republican Georgia Gov. Kemp at Atlanta rally, upsetting Republicans and reviving an intraparty feud three months ahead of a presidential election in a key swing state. w/⁦@marianne_levine⁩: https://t.co/64z64QjML1

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 4, 2024

Which could also be a violation of the terms of his conditional release in Georgia.

And speaking of transactions:

Keep seeing a talking point from Trump supporters that Trump agreed to “debate Biden” on ABC. That’s not accurate: Trump agreed to debate terms that invite any and all candidates who meet a polling and ballot access threshold. The terms did not specify Biden.

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) August 3, 2024

Here are the terms of the ABC News debate. You’ll find that, despite Trump supporter attempts to claim that Trump only agreed to “debate Biden,” the name “Joe Biden” is mentioned zero times in the debate terms. https://t.co/imam9kp45a

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) August 3, 2024

Here are the terms of the ABC debate that Donald Trump is pulling back from. While he obviously thought he would be debating Joe Biden when it was set up, the rules didn’t name names. From May: pic.twitter.com/t7HTz9E74Y

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 3, 2024

Trump is scared. EOD. As he told Bartiromo hours before he announced his “agreement,” he didn’t need to debate Harris. Why should he? If he wanted to debate, he’d just show up at ABC. After all, Kamala now meets the ballot access and polling terms 

Or is that the problem?