Donald Trump and his supporters seek comfort in conspiracy as election hopes dim

[marmar]

(Independent UK) For a man who often broadcasts shirtless and screaming in between commercials for brain pills, the stage Alex Jones found himself speaking from on Saturday afternoon might have felt like a considerable upgrade. On the steps of the US Supreme Court, no less, the conspiracy theorist had a receptive audience.

“President Trump by every metric won this election!" he bellowed from the podium to cheers from a crowd of thousands of the president’s supporters in Washington D.C.

“That’s why the corporate media including Fox News will not let anybody on to show the proven fraud in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Arizona, in Georgia, in Nevada and in Minnesota,” he added, before expanding the list of collaborators to include “paedophile globalists” and "Clinton blackmail rings."

It is perhaps fitting that America’s most infamous conspiracy theorist is stumping again for Donald Trump. In the week since his election loss, the president appears to have all but abandoned the job of governing to focus on spreading false and debunked stories about voter fraud to explain his defeat.

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It should come as no surprise that this is how the Trump presidency ends. Conspiracy theories were the lifeblood of his early political career. His baseless claims about president Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and the dog-whistle racism that accompanied them, helped him on an improbable journey to the highest office in the land. His lies then seemed like a means to an end. Today, as he approaches the end of his one-term presidency, they are all he has left. ............(more)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/donald-trump-election-voter-fraud-us-election-rigged-b1723139.html

[cilla4progress]

1. Basically every conspiracy and rumor

found to be null and void.

Including his claims of election fraud dating back to the primaries!!

Unfathomable that we are being held hostage by these venal idiots. Murka.

SMDH

[world wide wally]

2. The most sickening chapter in American history by far.

Fuck you, MAGAts

[struggle4progress]

3. Ain't it hard