Make no mistake: @GOP’s #OperationCHAOS is just one in a series of ongoing attempts to eliminate the threat that continues to stand between Donald Trump and winning re-election: @JoeBiden (see Trump adviser below). A brief thread on Trump’s obsession with the VP follows. 
Jan 2018: Reports about Trump fears running against Biden begin to surface: “If you're the president, or the RNC, you're more worried about someone who looks like Biden — someone who has more mainstream appeal, who blue-collar workers could identify with.” politico.com/story/2018/01/…
Feb 2018: Just prior to SOTU, Trump goes off the rails in a meeting with TV anchors where Biden, among others, is a fixation of his. A few days later, it is reported that Biden and Trump are in a dead heat in Texas - a big deal in a deep red state.
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
March 2018: Trump appears at the Gridiron Dinner where he begins referring to Biden as “Sleepy Joe” and makes disparaging remarks. This is soon followed by another meltdown on Twitter when the VP calls Trump out for disrespecting women.
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
April 2018: Biden continues to lead Trump in hypothetical GE matchups. In an interview on MSNBC, Biden confirms he will reach a decision on whether to run or not by the end of the year.
buzzfeednews.com/article/henryg…
buzzfeednews.com/article/henryg…
June 2018: Giuliani attacks Biden during an unhinged tirade against Trump’s potential Democratic opponents in 2020. Note: there is still no mention of “corruption in Ukraine” and/or Burisma whatsoever.
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-k…
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-k…
July 2018: Trump travels to Helsinki for the G20 Summit and his infamous closed-door meeting with Putin. We now know that this is also when the seeds of the Ukraine conspiracy theory are sown. Axios soon reports Trump’s advisers fear losing key swing states to Biden in 2020.
September 2018: It is reported that Republican operatives and strategists fear Joe Biden more than any other potential Democratic 2020 candidate.
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
November 2018: Rich Lowry reiterates Trump stands to lose Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania in 2020 if Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee.
nationalreview.com/2018/11/joe-bi…
nationalreview.com/2018/11/joe-bi…
December 2018: Trump finally sets his criminal plot into motion in the hopes of derailing the former vice president with debunked conspiracy theories and smears.
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