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Donald Trump is my hero
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Simpsons memes go viral after Trump claims that ‘dogs are being eaten in Springfield’
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someone just saw his most recent polling among women...
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His lips are moving.
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tomorrow, thursday september 26th, donald j. trump's treason will be on display for all to see.
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NY Times compiles opinions of 45 from people who worked with him
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The facts of the case begin with a damning statement: “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office.”
Fundamental to those crimes was disinformation. The entire plan for keeping Trump in office depended on Trump and his loyalists lying to the American people, convincing them of a completely false story that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen.
That effort started long before the actual election when it became clear to the Trump team that he was unlikely to win. They knew, though, that since Democrats were more likely than Republicans to use mail-in ballots, there would be an initial period when his numbers were higher than Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s.
In that case, Trump told advisor Roger Stone, his chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Mark Short, he would simply declare before all the ballots had been counted that he had won. In the meantime, he planted the idea that the election would be stolen from him, publicly saying, for example, that he would “have to see” whether he would accept the election results and saying that the only way he could lose would be if the election was rigged.
On October 31, advisor Steve Bannon, whose specialty was disinformation, told a group of supporters that Trump was simply “going to declare victory. That doesn’t mean he’s the winner, he’s just going to say he’s the winner…that’s our strategy.”
That’s exactly what Trump did. He claimed there had been fraud in the election and that he had won. Then, as states continued to count votes, Trump’s operatives tried to create chaos at the polling places. When the vote count in Detroit swung toward Biden, for example, operative Michael Roman told a colleague there to “give me options to file litigation… even if itbis [sic],” apparently meaning “even if it is BS.” Smith noted that “[w]hen a colleague suggested there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the Brooks Brothers Riot, a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election”—a riot in which Roger Stone had participated—Roman responded: “Make them riot” and “Do it!!!”
Even as Trump publicly claimed victory, his campaign staff told him his chances of prevailing were slim. To win, they told him, he must carry Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. When the campaign conceded its litigation in Arizona on November 13, it effectively admitted Trump had lost the election. As soon as his lawyers conceded in Arizona, Trump sidelined his campaign staff and turned to Giuliani and lawyers who would back the Big Lie.
To overturn the election results, Trump and his loyalists turned to pressuring Republicans in the states he had lost, especially Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as in states that used certain voting machines, to say the election had been fraudulent. When officials demanded proof of their claims, Trump and Giuliani threatened them, then accused them of betrayal and spread their names to angry supporters, who harassed them. Again and again, Republican officials told Trump his numbers were wrong and that he had lost the election. They begged him to stop spreading lies.
As for the idea that voting machines had been compromised, Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, publicly posted that claims of election fraud through voting machines “either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.” When Trump tried to get then–Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to publicize a report that claimed machines in Antrim County, Michigan, had affected the vote, McDaniel declined, saying she had already discussed the report with Michigan’s speaker of the house, who had told her the report was “f*cking nuts.”
By late November, neither the legal challenges nor the threats had worked. So in early December the conspirators decided to get the people who would have been the electors if Trump had won to sign certifications saying that they were the legitimate electors and were casting their electoral votes for Trump. The lawyer who came up with the plan, Ken Chesebro, admitted that “the votes aren’t legal” but thought Congress could use them to challenge the real votes.
Many of the electors were wary of the plan, but Trump and his conspirators managed to get the slates of fake electors on December 14, the appointed day for real electors to meet. The plan was for Vice President Mike Pence, who as president of the Senate would preside over the counting of the electoral votes, to use the fake electors to say there were competing slates of electors and thus to “negotiate a solution to defeat Biden.” On December 19, Trump posted: “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6. Be there, will be wild!”
But the plan hit a snag. Pence maintained he did not have the power to do any such thing. The more Pence refused, the more insistent Trump became. After another argument on January 1, 2021, Trump told Pence that “hundreds of thousands of people are going to hate your guts,” “people are gonna think you’re stupid,” and, finally, “You’re too honest.”
Trump, Bannon, and Trump’s lawyers all continued to pressure Pence, and Bannon normalized the plan on his podcast. Trump continued to talk publicly of fighting to make sure his opponents didn’t take the White House and continued to pressure Pence. On January 5—the day before the election certification proceeding—he talked to Bannon, and less than two hours later, on his podcast, Bannon told his listeners: “All Hell is going to break loose tomorrow” in Washington, D.C.
Concerned at Trump’s escalating fury at Pence, Pence’s chief of staff Mark Short alerted Pence’s secret service detail. Then, after Trump spoke with Bannon and lawyer John Eastman, who had come up with the legal argument for Pence’s power to affect the count, he simply lied on social media that Pence agreed the vice president could change the election results, then posted: “Do it, Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
When Pence continued to refuse, on January 6, Trump told his supporters at the Ellipse that Pence had let him down and then continued to lie that the election had been stolen, assuring them they would “never take back our country with weakness.” Then he sent the crowd to obstruct the proceedings.
Trump sat in the small dining room off the Oval Office watching the Fox News Channel and scrolling through Twitter as the crowd broke into the Capitol. At 2:24, Trump tweeted that “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!” A rioter read the tweet through a bullhorn for the crowd. A minute later, the Secret Service had to evacuate Pence to a secure location. When told of Pence’s danger, Trump answered: “So what?”
When Congress came back after the riot, Trump and Giuliani tried to delay further, calling senators and one representative to slow the process down. It didn’t work. On January 7, at 3:41 in the morning, Pence announced that Biden’s election had been certified.
It was all a lie.
One hundred and forty police officers assaulted, close to $3 million in damage, close to 1,200 people charged, more than 450 serving prison sentences, a poisonous political movement taking root, and voter suppression laws…all because Trump couldn’t bear to have lost an election.
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Fundamental to those crimes was disinformation. The entire plan for keeping Trump in office depended on Trump and his loyalists lying to the American people, convincing them of a completely false story that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen.
That effort started long before the actual election when it became clear to the Trump team that he was unlikely to win. They knew, though, that since Democrats were more likely than Republicans to use mail-in ballots, there would be an initial period when his numbers were higher than Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s.
In that case, Trump told advisor Roger Stone, his chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Mark Short, he would simply declare before all the ballots had been counted that he had won. In the meantime, he planted the idea that the election would be stolen from him, publicly saying, for example, that he would “have to see” whether he would accept the election results and saying that the only way he could lose would be if the election was rigged.
On October 31, advisor Steve Bannon, whose specialty was disinformation, told a group of supporters that Trump was simply “going to declare victory. That doesn’t mean he’s the winner, he’s just going to say he’s the winner…that’s our strategy.”
That’s exactly what Trump did. He claimed there had been fraud in the election and that he had won. Then, as states continued to count votes, Trump’s operatives tried to create chaos at the polling places. When the vote count in Detroit swung toward Biden, for example, operative Michael Roman told a colleague there to “give me options to file litigation… even if itbis [sic],” apparently meaning “even if it is BS.” Smith noted that “[w]hen a colleague suggested there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the Brooks Brothers Riot, a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election”—a riot in which Roger Stone had participated—Roman responded: “Make them riot” and “Do it!!!”
Even as Trump publicly claimed victory, his campaign staff told him his chances of prevailing were slim. To win, they told him, he must carry Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. When the campaign conceded its litigation in Arizona on November 13, it effectively admitted Trump had lost the election. As soon as his lawyers conceded in Arizona, Trump sidelined his campaign staff and turned to Giuliani and lawyers who would back the Big Lie.
To overturn the election results, Trump and his loyalists turned to pressuring Republicans in the states he had lost, especially Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as in states that used certain voting machines, to say the election had been fraudulent. When officials demanded proof of their claims, Trump and Giuliani threatened them, then accused them of betrayal and spread their names to angry supporters, who harassed them. Again and again, Republican officials told Trump his numbers were wrong and that he had lost the election. They begged him to stop spreading lies.
As for the idea that voting machines had been compromised, Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, publicly posted that claims of election fraud through voting machines “either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.” When Trump tried to get then–Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to publicize a report that claimed machines in Antrim County, Michigan, had affected the vote, McDaniel declined, saying she had already discussed the report with Michigan’s speaker of the house, who had told her the report was “f*cking nuts.”
By late November, neither the legal challenges nor the threats had worked. So in early December the conspirators decided to get the people who would have been the electors if Trump had won to sign certifications saying that they were the legitimate electors and were casting their electoral votes for Trump. The lawyer who came up with the plan, Ken Chesebro, admitted that “the votes aren’t legal” but thought Congress could use them to challenge the real votes.
Many of the electors were wary of the plan, but Trump and his conspirators managed to get the slates of fake electors on December 14, the appointed day for real electors to meet. The plan was for Vice President Mike Pence, who as president of the Senate would preside over the counting of the electoral votes, to use the fake electors to say there were competing slates of electors and thus to “negotiate a solution to defeat Biden.” On December 19, Trump posted: “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6. Be there, will be wild!”
But the plan hit a snag. Pence maintained he did not have the power to do any such thing. The more Pence refused, the more insistent Trump became. After another argument on January 1, 2021, Trump told Pence that “hundreds of thousands of people are going to hate your guts,” “people are gonna think you’re stupid,” and, finally, “You’re too honest.”
Trump, Bannon, and Trump’s lawyers all continued to pressure Pence, and Bannon normalized the plan on his podcast. Trump continued to talk publicly of fighting to make sure his opponents didn’t take the White House and continued to pressure Pence. On January 5—the day before the election certification proceeding—he talked to Bannon, and less than two hours later, on his podcast, Bannon told his listeners: “All Hell is going to break loose tomorrow” in Washington, D.C.
Concerned at Trump’s escalating fury at Pence, Pence’s chief of staff Mark Short alerted Pence’s secret service detail. Then, after Trump spoke with Bannon and lawyer John Eastman, who had come up with the legal argument for Pence’s power to affect the count, he simply lied on social media that Pence agreed the vice president could change the election results, then posted: “Do it, Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
When Pence continued to refuse, on January 6, Trump told his supporters at the Ellipse that Pence had let him down and then continued to lie that the election had been stolen, assuring them they would “never take back our country with weakness.” Then he sent the crowd to obstruct the proceedings.
Trump sat in the small dining room off the Oval Office watching the Fox News Channel and scrolling through Twitter as the crowd broke into the Capitol. At 2:24, Trump tweeted that “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!” A rioter read the tweet through a bullhorn for the crowd. A minute later, the Secret Service had to evacuate Pence to a secure location. When told of Pence’s danger, Trump answered: “So what?”
When Congress came back after the riot, Trump and Giuliani tried to delay further, calling senators and one representative to slow the process down. It didn’t work. On January 7, at 3:41 in the morning, Pence announced that Biden’s election had been certified.
It was all a lie.
One hundred and forty police officers assaulted, close to $3 million in damage, close to 1,200 people charged, more than 450 serving prison sentences, a poisonous political movement taking root, and voter suppression laws…all because Trump couldn’t bear to have lost an election.
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In the middle of hurricane season in 2019, Kessler explains, Trump took $155 million from the FEMA disaster fund and redirected it to pay for detention space and temporary hearing locations for immigrants seeking asylum. “No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants,” the article title reads, “but Trump did.”
As in Springfield, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are begging MAGAs to stop the disinformation, which is keeping people from accessing the help they need and gumming up relief efforts as workers and local and state governments, as well as FEMA, have to waste time combating lies. Scammers and political extremists are making things worse by spreading AI-generated images and claiming that the federal government is ignoring the people and emergencies the images depict.
MAGA Republicans launched another major disinformation campaign today when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released another blockbuster jobs report. It showed that the country added about 254,000 jobs in September, far higher than the 140,000 jobs economists expected. It also revised the job numbers for July and August upward. The unemployment rate dropped from 4.2% in August to 4.1%, and wages have outpaced inflation.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, wrote that the jobs report “cements my view that the economy is about as good as it gets. The economy is creating lots of jobs across many industries, consistent with robust labor force growth, and thus low and stable unemployment. The economy is at full-employment, no more and no less. Wage growth is strong, and given big productivity gains, it is consistent with low and stable inflation. One couldn’t paint a prettier picture of the job market and broader economy.”
Yet MAGA Republicans deny that the economy is strong. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) openly called the jobs report fake. And when a reporter asked Trump, “Jobs are up, the stock market hit that all-time high. Do you acknowledge that the economy is improving?” he answered: “No it’s not.”
But, apparently stung, this afternoon Trump posted on his social media site what appeared to be an announcement. After an emoji of a flashing red light, a headline read, “New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for President.” A representative for Dimon instantly denied such an endorsement, saying it is false. According to a spokesperson for JP Morgan, Dimon has neither contributed money nor endorsed Trump, or anyone else, in the 2024 presidential race. But Trump has not taken the post down.
Hugo Lowell of The Guardian notes that Trump has admired Dimon for a long time and likely craves his support. Trump has been unable to attract major endorsements, while celebrities throw their influence behind Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz almost daily. Yesterday, musician Bruce Springsteen endorsed Harris. Today, businessman and former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. endorsed her.
The firehose of lies is designed to make it impossible for voters to figure out the truth. The technique is designed so that eventually voters give up trying to engage, conclude everyone is lying, throw up their hands, and stop voting. Holding on to facts combats the effects of the storm of lies.
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As in Springfield, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are begging MAGAs to stop the disinformation, which is keeping people from accessing the help they need and gumming up relief efforts as workers and local and state governments, as well as FEMA, have to waste time combating lies. Scammers and political extremists are making things worse by spreading AI-generated images and claiming that the federal government is ignoring the people and emergencies the images depict.
MAGA Republicans launched another major disinformation campaign today when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released another blockbuster jobs report. It showed that the country added about 254,000 jobs in September, far higher than the 140,000 jobs economists expected. It also revised the job numbers for July and August upward. The unemployment rate dropped from 4.2% in August to 4.1%, and wages have outpaced inflation.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, wrote that the jobs report “cements my view that the economy is about as good as it gets. The economy is creating lots of jobs across many industries, consistent with robust labor force growth, and thus low and stable unemployment. The economy is at full-employment, no more and no less. Wage growth is strong, and given big productivity gains, it is consistent with low and stable inflation. One couldn’t paint a prettier picture of the job market and broader economy.”
Yet MAGA Republicans deny that the economy is strong. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) openly called the jobs report fake. And when a reporter asked Trump, “Jobs are up, the stock market hit that all-time high. Do you acknowledge that the economy is improving?” he answered: “No it’s not.”
But, apparently stung, this afternoon Trump posted on his social media site what appeared to be an announcement. After an emoji of a flashing red light, a headline read, “New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for President.” A representative for Dimon instantly denied such an endorsement, saying it is false. According to a spokesperson for JP Morgan, Dimon has neither contributed money nor endorsed Trump, or anyone else, in the 2024 presidential race. But Trump has not taken the post down.
Hugo Lowell of The Guardian notes that Trump has admired Dimon for a long time and likely craves his support. Trump has been unable to attract major endorsements, while celebrities throw their influence behind Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz almost daily. Yesterday, musician Bruce Springsteen endorsed Harris. Today, businessman and former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. endorsed her.
The firehose of lies is designed to make it impossible for voters to figure out the truth. The technique is designed so that eventually voters give up trying to engage, conclude everyone is lying, throw up their hands, and stop voting. Holding on to facts combats the effects of the storm of lies.
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Why is anyone even thinking about voting for him? Do they think he will magically start telling the truth if he is elected?
Everyone is so politically fucked up that they're segregating themselves in the name of equal rights and liberation.
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Crowd (00:00):
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump-
Donald Trump (00:02):
Thank you very much, everybody. This is an honor. What a crowd this is. Look where that crowd goes. This is a big crowd. A very special hello to Wisconsin. We really appreciate it. We’ve had great success here. We’ve had tremendous success, and I’m thrilled to be back in this incredible state with the thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots, which is what you are. If you can believe it, 59 days from now, we are going to win Wisconsin. We are going to defeat Comrade Kamala Harris, and we are going to win the White House, that gorgeous, beautiful White House. We’re going to win it, and we’re going to turn this country around because this country is a failing nation right now. It’s a laughingstock all over the world.
(00:53)
Over the past four years, our country has seen the sickness and corruption of the Washington swamp exposed like never before. You’ve seen it. You’ve been watching it. You watch those millions and millions of people pour into our country. We have no idea from where, who they are. We know nothing about them, and I’ll tell you, many of them are bad. Many of them are among the worst in the world.
(01:18)
Under the Harris-Biden regime, your government imported murderers, child predators, and serial rapists from all over the planet while weaponizing law enforcement to jail political opponents here at home. They do that, and they think it’s wonderful. It’s like a third world country, only they loot the economy. They give trillions and trillions of dollars to their left-wing cronies while you pay the cost of rampant inflation, which is what’s happened, rampant inflation, bad energy policy, and just pouring out money like it was water.
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They run your country for their own power and profit while erasing your borders, assaulting your freedom, indoctrinating your children, and selling your jobs to China, Mexico, and all of these other foreign lands. But with your vote this election, their lying, cheating, thieving, hoaxing, and plotting will come to an end. It’s going to come to an end.
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We’re going to cast out the corrupt political class. We’re going to restore our republic. We are going to drain the swamp, and we’re going to do it once and for all. We’re going to get it done.
Crowd (02:30):
Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp.
Donald Trump (02:42):
Thank you very much. Here are nine steps I’ll take very quickly to break the grip of this rogue regime. This is the worst president and vice president in the history of our country. There’s never been anybody that’s done the damage of these people. I used to say, and I haven’t said it in a while, if you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the country, and let’s include vice president because she’s worse than he is because she’s actually a believer. He wasn’t. But if you took the 10 worst, they haven’t done the damage that this one administration has done to our country.
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First, I will end forever the weaponization of government and the abuse of law enforcement against political opponents. Under Comrade Kamala, Christians and pro-life activists are rotting in prison for the crime of praying in public. How about the people they’re arresting because they were praying in public? These people are sick. People like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, good people, were locked up for following the advice of their lawyers.
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As everyone knows, the Harris-Biden DOJ is trying to throw me in jail. They want me in jail for the crime of exposing their corruption. We expose their corruption. They go after the people that expose, not the people that do the corruption. The big news this week was that the Manhattan DA witch hunt against me has been postponed because everyone realizes that there’s no case because I did nothing wrong, did nothing wrong. Political witch hunt.
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It’s a political attack against me by Comrade Kamala Harris and Sleepy Joe and other radical left opponents for the purpose of election interference. This is all it is. My whole life I never had anything. Now, all of a sudden, I got so many cases. Who’s indicting me today? Does anybody have any? “Well, sir, you challenged the election. We think you should be under indictment.” We challenged the corrupt election. We were right about that.
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It’s a case that should never have been brought, and they postponed it. Nothing like this has ever happened in the United States before. It’s strictly third-world, banana-republic stuff. That’s what it is. But importantly, the public understands this. That’s why we have such a crowd today. This is a big crowd. They were trying to say that she gets big crowds. Number one, she doesn’t. Number two, she buses the people in. You see the buses. There’s nobody bused in. I’m sorry to tell you. We bused in nobody.
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We have some people from North Carolina. I think it’s number … What is it? Those beautiful ladies from North Carolina are here again without their husbands, never have their husbands. Those poor husbands. What is this? 249 or something? 249 and we love them. We’re doing well in North Carolina. We left yesterday. We just got the endorsement of the biggest police group in the country and 380, 000 police. I said, “How many police does our country have?” But it’s 380,000 endorsed me yesterday in North Carolina, your home state, and I just want to thank them.
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This is like number 250, and I never see their husbands. They’re all happily married, but I never see their husbands. So I don’t know what the hell is going on. They’re beautiful, and they’re always perfectly coiffed. That means they have money. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. It’s great. we always have front-row Joes over here. Look at these people.Whoa. It’s a lot of front-row Joes. They’ve been here for four days. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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The spirit we have is greater than ever before. We did great in 2016. We did better in 2020, but you’re not allowed to say that because if you say that, they go after you. We did better by millions and millions of votes, but neither one of them compared to what’s happening now. We’ve never seen the enthusiasm and the love that we have now. This has really been incredible. If I didn’t think we did well last time, I wouldn’t have done this because it’s a little tough life. It’s not the easiest.
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You get shot at. Other things happen. Other routine events happen. But we’re going to do it for one reason. I wouldn’t have changed it. They asked me just a little while ago. A reporter said, “Sir, if you had to do it again, would you do it again?” I said, “Absolutely, because we’re going to make America great again, and that’s better than my life.” These guys know. We know. They know. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Crowd (07:44):
USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA-
Donald Trump (07:59):
What an incredible crowd. Nobody’s ever had crowds like this, nobody ever. The fake news knows it. That’s a lot of fake news back there. That’s a lot of fake news. The public understands this, and so does every legal scholar, expert, luminary, including people like Andy McCarthy, Jonathan Turley, Alan Dershowitz, Mark Levin, Steven Calabrese, David Rifkin, Greg Jarrett, Katie and Andrew Cherkasky. Elie Honig of CNN even knows it.
(08:39)
They’ve said very powerfully that this is a case that should have never been brought. It’s an embarrassment. Every legal scholar of note has said this stuff shouldn’t be happening. It’s a weaponization of government. I greatly appreciate the words, if necessary. They also said the decision will be postponed, if necessary. First of all, there is no if necessary. We did nothing wrong. We’re never going to let them do this. Somebody else wouldn’t have taken it.
(09:07)
I was thinking, “How many people?” I was with some people on the plane, and they said, “How many people would have taken this? Most of them would have left. They would have said, ‘I’m getting out of this business.'” But not me. I don’t know. I don’t know. Not me. We’re up against very bad, evil people. It’s an evil force. We have people on the outside, and we have people on the inside. You have people, countries, China, Russia, Kim Jong Un.
(09:35)
We have lots of people. They’re tough, and they’re smart, and by the way, a lot smarter than what we have now. We have a bunch of dumb people. We have the dumbest leaders in the history of our country and the history of the world. But you know what? They look at us, and they say, “What the hell is going on?” Did you see? Three days ago, it started again. The Justice Department said, “Russia may be involved in our elections again.”
(10:01)
You see that, Mr. Congressman? Great congressman from Texas, you see that? Russia. It’s Russia. The whole world laughed at them this time. Two and a half years, not a phone call made to Russia, not anything to do with Russia except stopping their pipeline and lots of other things that these people approved. They said just the other day, the attorney general, “We are looking at Russia.” And I said, “Oh, no. It’s Russia, Russia, Russia all over again.”
(10:31)
But they don’t look at China, and they don’t look at Iran. They look at Russia. I don’t know what it is with poor Russia, this very … But you know what? Russia would have never happened if I were president. Attacking Ukraine would have never happened. I knew Putin. I knew him well, and he endorsed … I don’t know if you saw the other day. He endorsed Kamala. He endorsed Kamala. I was very offended by that. I wonder why he endorsed Kamala. No, he’s a chess player. He endorsed Kamala.
(11:09)
Should I be, Congressman? Should I be upset about that? No? Huh? Was it done with a smile, Ron? Was it done with a smile? I think it was done maybe with a smile. I don’t know. Who the hell knows? Nobody’s going to figure it out. They’re about 19 steps ahead of us. But this whole Russia thing, nobody was tougher on Russia in history than Trump. The person that knows that better than anyone is President Vladimir Putin. He knows it better than anyone.
(11:38)
I’ll tell you what. I will have that war finished and done and settled before I get to the White House as president-elect. I will get that done. We’ll get it done. It’s a horrible, horrible war. The deaths are far greater than you hear. You don’t hear what’s happening over there. They’re being decimated. You don’t hear what’s really happening over there. We’re going to get it done very quickly. I know both of them. I know Zelenskyy, and I know Putin. I’m going to get it done very quickly.
(12:09)
Do you ever notice? I don’t even think we try. We just give billions and billions of dollars. Does anyone ever talk to Russia about get this thing finished? Nobody talks. We don’t have any communication, nothing. We’re run by stupid people. Stupid, stupid people. We found that out at the debate with Joe. How did that work out? And we’re going to find it out again on Tuesday night. Is anybody going to be watching?
(12:44)
She’s a threat to democracy. They always say, “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.” I’m not a threat. I’m the opposite. I’m keeping democracy. What they are, she’s a defunder of police. When somebody on the far left is in charge of defund the police for 12 years and then they switched three weeks ago or something, “Oh, we love our police.” They don’t love the police. They’re radical left Marxists, and that’s what she is.
(13:15)
It’s not even believable. It’s not believable. Defund the police. No fracking. No, we’re not going to frack. You go back a couple of years. We will never frack. There will be no fracking in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania will never frack. Now you say, “Oh, yes, we will frack.” The whole thing is a con job. She got in. She was last. They had 22 people or something running. How Biden won, I will never know. To me, it’s one of the greatest miracles. To me, it’s a great miracle.
(13:49)
But how the hell that guy won? But he won. In this one, he got 14 million votes. She got no votes, and then they put her in anyway. The bosses put her in because she’s controlled by them. But she will be the worst president. He is the worst president in history. She will be worse than him. She will be worse than him. Trump is never wrong. I am never, ever wrong.
(14:17)
But just to finish off on the weaponization, probably most of the people have heard. Just yesterday, the top spokesman, one of the top people in the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, that’s the very respected Southern District, very, very highly respected, was heard saying and was quoted exactly, quote, “Honestly, I think this case is nonsense.” Now, this is the boss of the whole thing. Every real estate person in New York does what Trump did. Nobody’s ever been charged with this before. It’s a perversion of justice.
(14:52)
He said that the DA’s office was, quote, “Stacking charges against Trump and rearranging things just to make them fit the case.” I think it is. This is the boss. I don’t know why they don’t do something. They ought to drop it. They shouldn’t delay it. They should drop it. Drop all of it. Drop all of it. I’ve been indicted more than Alphonse Capone. I say it all the time. He’s sort of the ultimate. He’s the ultimate criminal. I got indicted more than him.
(15:22)
My parents are up there. They’re great people. They’re looking down on me right now. “I can’t believe this has happened to my son. He’s been indicted more than Al Capone.” He would take that tough man sitting right in the front row. Stand up. Look at him. He’s tough as hell. He would take him out to dinner if he didn’t like him. You were gone. You would never be found again. You’d be in the foundation of a building. You would form the foundation of a building someplace in Wisconsin.
(15:46)
No, Alphonse Capone led a very vicious, violent life. But according to the statistics, I am a much worse person than Alphonse Capone. I don’t think so. But he also said, this gentleman said the New York justice system is, quote, “like the Wild West. They’re like idiots. They don’t care. They’re all political.” And he said that the persecution in Georgia by Fani Willis … You know about Fani Willis. Fani. It’s pronounced Fani, F-A-N-I. That’s fanny. But she likes it Fani....
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Donald Trump (00:02):
Thank you very much, everybody. This is an honor. What a crowd this is. Look where that crowd goes. This is a big crowd. A very special hello to Wisconsin. We really appreciate it. We’ve had great success here. We’ve had tremendous success, and I’m thrilled to be back in this incredible state with the thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots, which is what you are. If you can believe it, 59 days from now, we are going to win Wisconsin. We are going to defeat Comrade Kamala Harris, and we are going to win the White House, that gorgeous, beautiful White House. We’re going to win it, and we’re going to turn this country around because this country is a failing nation right now. It’s a laughingstock all over the world.
(00:53)
Over the past four years, our country has seen the sickness and corruption of the Washington swamp exposed like never before. You’ve seen it. You’ve been watching it. You watch those millions and millions of people pour into our country. We have no idea from where, who they are. We know nothing about them, and I’ll tell you, many of them are bad. Many of them are among the worst in the world.
(01:18)
Under the Harris-Biden regime, your government imported murderers, child predators, and serial rapists from all over the planet while weaponizing law enforcement to jail political opponents here at home. They do that, and they think it’s wonderful. It’s like a third world country, only they loot the economy. They give trillions and trillions of dollars to their left-wing cronies while you pay the cost of rampant inflation, which is what’s happened, rampant inflation, bad energy policy, and just pouring out money like it was water.
(01:54)
They run your country for their own power and profit while erasing your borders, assaulting your freedom, indoctrinating your children, and selling your jobs to China, Mexico, and all of these other foreign lands. But with your vote this election, their lying, cheating, thieving, hoaxing, and plotting will come to an end. It’s going to come to an end.
(02:19)
We’re going to cast out the corrupt political class. We’re going to restore our republic. We are going to drain the swamp, and we’re going to do it once and for all. We’re going to get it done.
Crowd (02:30):
Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp.
Donald Trump (02:42):
Thank you very much. Here are nine steps I’ll take very quickly to break the grip of this rogue regime. This is the worst president and vice president in the history of our country. There’s never been anybody that’s done the damage of these people. I used to say, and I haven’t said it in a while, if you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the country, and let’s include vice president because she’s worse than he is because she’s actually a believer. He wasn’t. But if you took the 10 worst, they haven’t done the damage that this one administration has done to our country.
(03:21)
First, I will end forever the weaponization of government and the abuse of law enforcement against political opponents. Under Comrade Kamala, Christians and pro-life activists are rotting in prison for the crime of praying in public. How about the people they’re arresting because they were praying in public? These people are sick. People like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, good people, were locked up for following the advice of their lawyers.
(03:52)
As everyone knows, the Harris-Biden DOJ is trying to throw me in jail. They want me in jail for the crime of exposing their corruption. We expose their corruption. They go after the people that expose, not the people that do the corruption. The big news this week was that the Manhattan DA witch hunt against me has been postponed because everyone realizes that there’s no case because I did nothing wrong, did nothing wrong. Political witch hunt.
(04:25)
It’s a political attack against me by Comrade Kamala Harris and Sleepy Joe and other radical left opponents for the purpose of election interference. This is all it is. My whole life I never had anything. Now, all of a sudden, I got so many cases. Who’s indicting me today? Does anybody have any? “Well, sir, you challenged the election. We think you should be under indictment.” We challenged the corrupt election. We were right about that.
(04:54)
It’s a case that should never have been brought, and they postponed it. Nothing like this has ever happened in the United States before. It’s strictly third-world, banana-republic stuff. That’s what it is. But importantly, the public understands this. That’s why we have such a crowd today. This is a big crowd. They were trying to say that she gets big crowds. Number one, she doesn’t. Number two, she buses the people in. You see the buses. There’s nobody bused in. I’m sorry to tell you. We bused in nobody.
(05:30)
We have some people from North Carolina. I think it’s number … What is it? Those beautiful ladies from North Carolina are here again without their husbands, never have their husbands. Those poor husbands. What is this? 249 or something? 249 and we love them. We’re doing well in North Carolina. We left yesterday. We just got the endorsement of the biggest police group in the country and 380, 000 police. I said, “How many police does our country have?” But it’s 380,000 endorsed me yesterday in North Carolina, your home state, and I just want to thank them.
(06:13)
This is like number 250, and I never see their husbands. They’re all happily married, but I never see their husbands. So I don’t know what the hell is going on. They’re beautiful, and they’re always perfectly coiffed. That means they have money. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. It’s great. we always have front-row Joes over here. Look at these people.Whoa. It’s a lot of front-row Joes. They’ve been here for four days. Thank you very much. Thank you.
(06:41)
The spirit we have is greater than ever before. We did great in 2016. We did better in 2020, but you’re not allowed to say that because if you say that, they go after you. We did better by millions and millions of votes, but neither one of them compared to what’s happening now. We’ve never seen the enthusiasm and the love that we have now. This has really been incredible. If I didn’t think we did well last time, I wouldn’t have done this because it’s a little tough life. It’s not the easiest.
(07:14)
You get shot at. Other things happen. Other routine events happen. But we’re going to do it for one reason. I wouldn’t have changed it. They asked me just a little while ago. A reporter said, “Sir, if you had to do it again, would you do it again?” I said, “Absolutely, because we’re going to make America great again, and that’s better than my life.” These guys know. We know. They know. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Crowd (07:44):
USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA-
Donald Trump (07:59):
What an incredible crowd. Nobody’s ever had crowds like this, nobody ever. The fake news knows it. That’s a lot of fake news back there. That’s a lot of fake news. The public understands this, and so does every legal scholar, expert, luminary, including people like Andy McCarthy, Jonathan Turley, Alan Dershowitz, Mark Levin, Steven Calabrese, David Rifkin, Greg Jarrett, Katie and Andrew Cherkasky. Elie Honig of CNN even knows it.
(08:39)
They’ve said very powerfully that this is a case that should have never been brought. It’s an embarrassment. Every legal scholar of note has said this stuff shouldn’t be happening. It’s a weaponization of government. I greatly appreciate the words, if necessary. They also said the decision will be postponed, if necessary. First of all, there is no if necessary. We did nothing wrong. We’re never going to let them do this. Somebody else wouldn’t have taken it.
(09:07)
I was thinking, “How many people?” I was with some people on the plane, and they said, “How many people would have taken this? Most of them would have left. They would have said, ‘I’m getting out of this business.'” But not me. I don’t know. I don’t know. Not me. We’re up against very bad, evil people. It’s an evil force. We have people on the outside, and we have people on the inside. You have people, countries, China, Russia, Kim Jong Un.
(09:35)
We have lots of people. They’re tough, and they’re smart, and by the way, a lot smarter than what we have now. We have a bunch of dumb people. We have the dumbest leaders in the history of our country and the history of the world. But you know what? They look at us, and they say, “What the hell is going on?” Did you see? Three days ago, it started again. The Justice Department said, “Russia may be involved in our elections again.”
(10:01)
You see that, Mr. Congressman? Great congressman from Texas, you see that? Russia. It’s Russia. The whole world laughed at them this time. Two and a half years, not a phone call made to Russia, not anything to do with Russia except stopping their pipeline and lots of other things that these people approved. They said just the other day, the attorney general, “We are looking at Russia.” And I said, “Oh, no. It’s Russia, Russia, Russia all over again.”
(10:31)
But they don’t look at China, and they don’t look at Iran. They look at Russia. I don’t know what it is with poor Russia, this very … But you know what? Russia would have never happened if I were president. Attacking Ukraine would have never happened. I knew Putin. I knew him well, and he endorsed … I don’t know if you saw the other day. He endorsed Kamala. He endorsed Kamala. I was very offended by that. I wonder why he endorsed Kamala. No, he’s a chess player. He endorsed Kamala.
(11:09)
Should I be, Congressman? Should I be upset about that? No? Huh? Was it done with a smile, Ron? Was it done with a smile? I think it was done maybe with a smile. I don’t know. Who the hell knows? Nobody’s going to figure it out. They’re about 19 steps ahead of us. But this whole Russia thing, nobody was tougher on Russia in history than Trump. The person that knows that better than anyone is President Vladimir Putin. He knows it better than anyone.
(11:38)
I’ll tell you what. I will have that war finished and done and settled before I get to the White House as president-elect. I will get that done. We’ll get it done. It’s a horrible, horrible war. The deaths are far greater than you hear. You don’t hear what’s happening over there. They’re being decimated. You don’t hear what’s really happening over there. We’re going to get it done very quickly. I know both of them. I know Zelenskyy, and I know Putin. I’m going to get it done very quickly.
(12:09)
Do you ever notice? I don’t even think we try. We just give billions and billions of dollars. Does anyone ever talk to Russia about get this thing finished? Nobody talks. We don’t have any communication, nothing. We’re run by stupid people. Stupid, stupid people. We found that out at the debate with Joe. How did that work out? And we’re going to find it out again on Tuesday night. Is anybody going to be watching?
(12:44)
She’s a threat to democracy. They always say, “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.” I’m not a threat. I’m the opposite. I’m keeping democracy. What they are, she’s a defunder of police. When somebody on the far left is in charge of defund the police for 12 years and then they switched three weeks ago or something, “Oh, we love our police.” They don’t love the police. They’re radical left Marxists, and that’s what she is.
(13:15)
It’s not even believable. It’s not believable. Defund the police. No fracking. No, we’re not going to frack. You go back a couple of years. We will never frack. There will be no fracking in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania will never frack. Now you say, “Oh, yes, we will frack.” The whole thing is a con job. She got in. She was last. They had 22 people or something running. How Biden won, I will never know. To me, it’s one of the greatest miracles. To me, it’s a great miracle.
(13:49)
But how the hell that guy won? But he won. In this one, he got 14 million votes. She got no votes, and then they put her in anyway. The bosses put her in because she’s controlled by them. But she will be the worst president. He is the worst president in history. She will be worse than him. She will be worse than him. Trump is never wrong. I am never, ever wrong.
(14:17)
But just to finish off on the weaponization, probably most of the people have heard. Just yesterday, the top spokesman, one of the top people in the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, that’s the very respected Southern District, very, very highly respected, was heard saying and was quoted exactly, quote, “Honestly, I think this case is nonsense.” Now, this is the boss of the whole thing. Every real estate person in New York does what Trump did. Nobody’s ever been charged with this before. It’s a perversion of justice.
(14:52)
He said that the DA’s office was, quote, “Stacking charges against Trump and rearranging things just to make them fit the case.” I think it is. This is the boss. I don’t know why they don’t do something. They ought to drop it. They shouldn’t delay it. They should drop it. Drop all of it. Drop all of it. I’ve been indicted more than Alphonse Capone. I say it all the time. He’s sort of the ultimate. He’s the ultimate criminal. I got indicted more than him.
(15:22)
My parents are up there. They’re great people. They’re looking down on me right now. “I can’t believe this has happened to my son. He’s been indicted more than Al Capone.” He would take that tough man sitting right in the front row. Stand up. Look at him. He’s tough as hell. He would take him out to dinner if he didn’t like him. You were gone. You would never be found again. You’d be in the foundation of a building. You would form the foundation of a building someplace in Wisconsin.
(15:46)
No, Alphonse Capone led a very vicious, violent life. But according to the statistics, I am a much worse person than Alphonse Capone. I don’t think so. But he also said, this gentleman said the New York justice system is, quote, “like the Wild West. They’re like idiots. They don’t care. They’re all political.” And he said that the persecution in Georgia by Fani Willis … You know about Fani Willis. Fani. It’s pronounced Fani, F-A-N-I. That’s fanny. But she likes it Fani....
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Re: Donald Trump is a Traitor
A bombshell story from a forthcoming book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward today revealed that in 2020, when he was president, Trump secretly shipped Covid-19 testing equipment to Russian president Vladimir Putin for his own personal use at a time when Americans could not get it.
A Trump aide told Woodward that Trump and Putin have spoken as many as seven times since Trump left the White House, prompting Edward Luce of the Financial Times to comment: “What possible business could an out-of-office U.S. president have to call Vladimir Putin seven times?” Woodward recounts a moment when Trump told a senior aide to leave the room so “he could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
The Woodward book also says that when South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was visiting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, in March 2024, Graham said “Hey, let’s call Trump.” According to Woodward, an aide brought MBS a bag full of burner phones, one of which was labeled “TRUMP 45.”
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A Trump aide told Woodward that Trump and Putin have spoken as many as seven times since Trump left the White House, prompting Edward Luce of the Financial Times to comment: “What possible business could an out-of-office U.S. president have to call Vladimir Putin seven times?” Woodward recounts a moment when Trump told a senior aide to leave the room so “he could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
The Woodward book also says that when South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was visiting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, in March 2024, Graham said “Hey, let’s call Trump.” According to Woodward, an aide brought MBS a bag full of burner phones, one of which was labeled “TRUMP 45.”
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Re: Donald Trump is a Traitor.
Yesterday we learned from a forthcoming book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward that in 2020, while he was president, Trump secretly shipped Covid-19 testing equipment to Russian president Vladimir Putin for his own personal use at a time when Americans could not get it. To be clear, this equipment was not the swabs we now use at home, but appears to be what at the time was a new point-of-care machine from Abbott Laboratories that claimed to be the fastest way to test for Covid-19.
Journalist Karly Kingsley points out that at the time, central lab testing to diagnose Covid-19 infections took a long time, causing infections to spread. Machines like Abbott’s were hard to get. Trump chose to send them to Putin—not to charge him for them, or to negotiate for the release of Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, two Americans being held by Russia at the time and later released under the Biden administration, but to give them to him—rather than keeping them for Americans.
It’s hard to overstate just what an astonishing story this is. In 2016, Republicans stood firm against Putin and backed the arming of Ukraine to stand against Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. But that summer, at Trump’s urging, the party changed its platform to weaken its support of Ukraine. In 2020, it appears, Trump chose to give lifesaving equipment to Putin rather than use it for Americans. And in 2024, Trump’s willingness to undermine the United States to cozy up to an adversary his own party stood against less than a decade ago does not appear to be a deal breaker for Republicans.
As Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) put it: “What has this country come to if the revelation that Trump secretly sent COVID testing machines to Putin while thousands of Americans were dying, in part because of a shortage of testing machines here, doesn't disqualify him to be President?” He continued: “Donald Trump helped keep Putin alive during the pandemic and let Americans die. This revelation is damning. It's disqualifying. He cannot be President of the United States.”
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Journalist Karly Kingsley points out that at the time, central lab testing to diagnose Covid-19 infections took a long time, causing infections to spread. Machines like Abbott’s were hard to get. Trump chose to send them to Putin—not to charge him for them, or to negotiate for the release of Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, two Americans being held by Russia at the time and later released under the Biden administration, but to give them to him—rather than keeping them for Americans.
It’s hard to overstate just what an astonishing story this is. In 2016, Republicans stood firm against Putin and backed the arming of Ukraine to stand against Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. But that summer, at Trump’s urging, the party changed its platform to weaken its support of Ukraine. In 2020, it appears, Trump chose to give lifesaving equipment to Putin rather than use it for Americans. And in 2024, Trump’s willingness to undermine the United States to cozy up to an adversary his own party stood against less than a decade ago does not appear to be a deal breaker for Republicans.
As Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) put it: “What has this country come to if the revelation that Trump secretly sent COVID testing machines to Putin while thousands of Americans were dying, in part because of a shortage of testing machines here, doesn't disqualify him to be President?” He continued: “Donald Trump helped keep Putin alive during the pandemic and let Americans die. This revelation is damning. It's disqualifying. He cannot be President of the United States.”
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Re: Donald Trump is my hero
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Re: Donald Trump is my hero
“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country…a fascist to the core.”
This is how former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer and the primary military advisor to the president, the secretary of defense, and the National Security Council, described former president Donald Trump to veteran journalist Bob Woodward. Trump appointed Milley to that position.
Since he announced his presidential candidacy in June 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, Trump has trafficked in racist anti-immigrant stories. But since the September 10 presidential debate when he drew ridicule for his outburst regurgitating the lie that legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their white neighbors’ pets, Trump has used increasingly fascist rhetoric. By this weekend, he had fully embraced the idea that the United States is being overrun by Black and Brown criminals and that they, along with their Democratic accomplices, must be rounded up, deported, or executed, with the help of the military.
Myah Ward of Politico noted on October 12 that Trump’s speeches have escalated to the point that he now promises that he alone can save the country from those people he calls “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.” He falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris “has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world…from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens.”
Trump’s behavior is Authoritarianism 101. In a 1951 book called The True Believer, political philosopher Eric Hoffer noted that demagogues appeal to a disaffected population whose members feel they have lost the power they previously held, that they have been displaced either religiously, economically, culturally, or politically. Such people are willing to follow a leader who promises to return them to their former positions of prominence and thus to make the nation great again.
But to cement their loyalty, the leader has to give them someone to hate. Who that is doesn't really matter: the group simply has to be blamed for all the troubles the leader’s supporters are suffering. Trump has kept his base firmly behind him by demonizing immigrants, the media, and, increasingly, Democrats, deflecting his own shortcomings by blaming these groups for undermining him.
According to Hoffer, there’s a psychological trick to the way this rhetoric works that makes loyalty to such a leader get stronger as that leader's behavior deteriorates. People who sign on to the idea that they are standing with their leader against an enemy begin to attack their opponents, and in order to justify their attacks, they have to convince themselves that that enemy is not good-intentioned, as they are, but evil. And the worse they behave, the more they have to believe their enemies deserve to be treated badly.
According to Hoffer, so long as they are unified against an enemy, true believers will support their leader no matter how outrageous his behavior gets. Indeed, their loyalty will only grow stronger as his behavior becomes more and more extreme. Turning against him would force them to own their own part in his attacks on those former enemies they would now have to recognize as ordinary human beings like themselves.
At a MAGA rally in Aurora, Colorado, on October 11, Trump added to this formula his determination to use the federal government to attack those he calls enemies. Standing on a stage with a backdrop that read, “DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW” and “END MIGRANT CRIME,” he insisted that the city had been taken over by Venezuelan gangs and proposed a federal program he called “Operation Aurora” to remove those immigrants he insists are members of “savage gangs.” When Trump said, “We have to live with these animals, but we won’t live with them for long,” a person in the crowd shouted: “Kill them!”
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This is how former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer and the primary military advisor to the president, the secretary of defense, and the National Security Council, described former president Donald Trump to veteran journalist Bob Woodward. Trump appointed Milley to that position.
Since he announced his presidential candidacy in June 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, Trump has trafficked in racist anti-immigrant stories. But since the September 10 presidential debate when he drew ridicule for his outburst regurgitating the lie that legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their white neighbors’ pets, Trump has used increasingly fascist rhetoric. By this weekend, he had fully embraced the idea that the United States is being overrun by Black and Brown criminals and that they, along with their Democratic accomplices, must be rounded up, deported, or executed, with the help of the military.
Myah Ward of Politico noted on October 12 that Trump’s speeches have escalated to the point that he now promises that he alone can save the country from those people he calls “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.” He falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris “has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world…from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens.”
Trump’s behavior is Authoritarianism 101. In a 1951 book called The True Believer, political philosopher Eric Hoffer noted that demagogues appeal to a disaffected population whose members feel they have lost the power they previously held, that they have been displaced either religiously, economically, culturally, or politically. Such people are willing to follow a leader who promises to return them to their former positions of prominence and thus to make the nation great again.
But to cement their loyalty, the leader has to give them someone to hate. Who that is doesn't really matter: the group simply has to be blamed for all the troubles the leader’s supporters are suffering. Trump has kept his base firmly behind him by demonizing immigrants, the media, and, increasingly, Democrats, deflecting his own shortcomings by blaming these groups for undermining him.
According to Hoffer, there’s a psychological trick to the way this rhetoric works that makes loyalty to such a leader get stronger as that leader's behavior deteriorates. People who sign on to the idea that they are standing with their leader against an enemy begin to attack their opponents, and in order to justify their attacks, they have to convince themselves that that enemy is not good-intentioned, as they are, but evil. And the worse they behave, the more they have to believe their enemies deserve to be treated badly.
According to Hoffer, so long as they are unified against an enemy, true believers will support their leader no matter how outrageous his behavior gets. Indeed, their loyalty will only grow stronger as his behavior becomes more and more extreme. Turning against him would force them to own their own part in his attacks on those former enemies they would now have to recognize as ordinary human beings like themselves.
At a MAGA rally in Aurora, Colorado, on October 11, Trump added to this formula his determination to use the federal government to attack those he calls enemies. Standing on a stage with a backdrop that read, “DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW” and “END MIGRANT CRIME,” he insisted that the city had been taken over by Venezuelan gangs and proposed a federal program he called “Operation Aurora” to remove those immigrants he insists are members of “savage gangs.” When Trump said, “We have to live with these animals, but we won’t live with them for long,” a person in the crowd shouted: “Kill them!”
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Re: Donald Trump is my hero
"i'll have arnie palmer's foot long weiner with a side of fries please"
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Re: Donald Trump is my hero
When the generals refused to shoot protesters or deploy U.S. troops against American citizens, Trump screamed: “You are all f*cking losers!”
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Re: I voted for Trump….
……to go to jail.
That’s right! Fuck Trump.
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Go special K go!
That’s right! Fuck Trump.
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Go special K go!
Bwaaahahaha….. no.
Re: Donald Trump is my hero
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Re: Donald Trump is my hero
“”This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Sacramento County Elections. Your ballot for the November 5, 2024, General Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting!””
And that’s how voting should work for everyone.
VOTE
And that’s how voting should work for everyone.
VOTE
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We make fun of corruption in less developed countries. Corruption and oligarchs may soon be here.
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Re: Donald Trump is going to lose whether he likes it or not...
The right-wing version of the American cowboy was always a myth. Nothing mattered more for success in the American West than the kinship networks and community support that provided money, labor, and access to trade outlets. When the economic patterns of the American West replicated those of the industrializing East after the Civil War, success during the heyday of the cowboy depended on access to lots of capital, giving rise to western barons and then to popular political movements to regulate businesses and give more power to the people. Far from being the homebound wives of myth, women were central to western life, just as they have always been to American society.
In Flagstaff, Arizona, today, Democratic presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz told a crowd: “I kind of have a feeling that women all across this country, from every walk of life, from either party, are going to send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump next Tuesday, November 5, whether he likes it or not.”
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In Flagstaff, Arizona, today, Democratic presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz told a crowd: “I kind of have a feeling that women all across this country, from every walk of life, from either party, are going to send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump next Tuesday, November 5, whether he likes it or not.”
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And so it begins.
Demand to Skirt Senate Confirmations Poses Early Test of a Radical Second Term
The once and future president is pushing Republicans to systematically abdicate the Senate’s constitutional role in vetting his nominees.
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Demand to Skirt Senate Confirmations Poses Early Test of a Radical Second Term
The once and future president is pushing Republicans to systematically abdicate the Senate’s constitutional role in vetting his nominees.
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