Predictions that former President Donald Trump will be reinstated continue to fall flat, but about 1 in 10 registered voters continue to believe the former president will be back in the Oval Office before the year’s end.
Religious leaders and Trump’s supporters have thrown out a number of dates that the former president was expected to return to power and the failure for the prediction to come true prompted some to double down, throwing out new expectations. The most recent theory, peddled by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, was that Trump would be back in office “by the morning” of August 13, a date that came to be referred to as Trump’s “reinstatement day.”
“The morning of August 13 it’ll be the talk of the world, going, ‘Hurry up! Let’s get this election pulled down, let’s right the right, let’s get these Communists out, you know, that have taken over,'” Lindell told Brannon Howse in early July.
Lindell previously told Steve Bannon that Trump would be back in office “by August,” but recently tried to temper expectations about the exact date the former president would be reinstated. He told the Daily Beast that his earlier August prediction was “an estimate at the time” and that the timeline depends on when the Supreme Court takes up the issue.
Fact checkers have routinely debunked the belief that Trump could be reinstated and one of the former president’s most ardent supporters even encouraged people to let go of the theory. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene supports the belief that there were improprieties in the election that helped propel President Joe Biden to victory, but told Bannon in July people need to be “careful in what they believe” regarding Trump’s reinstatement.
“I would hate for anyone to get their hopes up thinking that President Trump is going to be back in the White House in August because that’s not true, and I’m telling you that as a member of Congress, that’s a very difficult thing to do,” Greene said.
Lindell’s August 13 prediction wasn’t the first to fail and Biden was still inaugurated on January 20, the day that some believed the election would be overturned. Biden also remained in office after March 4, another day that was floated for Trump’s reinstatement.
