What if Trump gets elected and declines to serve?

“I’ll let you know how I feel about it after it happens,” likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump told The New York Times when asked if he would actually serve as president if elected.

That quote appeared in a Times article Thursday bearing the explosive headline “Would Donald Trump Quit if He Wins the Election? He Doesn’t Rule It Out.”

From the piece:

It is, of course, entirely possible that Mr. Trump is playing coy to earn more news coverage. But the notion of the intensely competitive Mr. Trump’s being more interested in winning the presidency than serving as president is not exactly a foreign concept to close observers of this presidential race.

While it is certainly possible that Trump’s coy answer is just another example of his knack for playing the media for coverage, the possibility that he actually is working for the Clinton campaign isn’t an emerging theory.

As The Washington Post reported last summer:

Former president Bill Clinton had a private telephone conversation in late spring with Donald Trump at the same time that the billionaire investor and reality-television star was nearing a decision to run for the White House, according to associates of both men.

Four Trump allies and one Clinton associate familiar with the exchange said that Clinton encouraged Trump’s efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape.

Clinton’s personal office in New York confirmed that the call occurred in late May, but an aide to Clinton said the 2016 race was never specifically discussed and that it was only a casual chat.

The talk with Clinton — the spouse of the Democratic presidential front-runner and one of his party’s preeminent political strategists — came just weeks before Trump jumped into the GOP race and surged to the front of the crowded Republican field.

The revelation of the call comes as many Republicans have begun criticizing Trump for his ties to Democrats, including past financial donations to the Clintons and their charitable foundation.

Brush it off as a crazy conspiracy theory if you want— but, as we recently saw following his meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Clinton’s casual chats seem to have a sort of mystical power.

Trump’s lack of a definitive “yes” to a question of whether he’d serve on behalf of the voters who elected him is yet another reason it’s a damn shame so many conservatives are totally unwilling to take a third party ticket seriously. In other news, Gary Johnson and Bill Weld are begging voters to give them a chance to serve the American people.

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