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Jilly_in_VA

(9,964 posts)
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 01:10 PM Jan 2022

Trump Is Now Openly Describing How He'll Steal the Next Election

Former President Donald Trump spent his weekend eliminating any remaining doubt that he wanted to steal the 2020 election.

In a Sunday statement, Trump criticized Democrats and “RINO Republicans” like “Wacky Susan Collins” who are supportive of reforming the more than century-old Electoral Count Act. Collins and other centrists in the Senate are in the early stages of reform that could increase the threshold for objections to various states’ electoral votes, among other reforms, according to the Hill.

“Actually, what they are saying, is that [former Vice President Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away,” Trump said. “Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!”

Despite more than a year of pushing conspiracy theories of widespread electoral and voter fraud, there is no legitimacy to Trump’s claims, and all evidence has shown that President Joe Biden was the rightful winner of the election.

During a Saturday rally in Conroe, Texas, Trump promised pardons for supporters who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the same morning he gave a speech calling on supporters to “fight like hell” to keep him in the White House and march to the Capitol to protest the certification of the election.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abpw3/trump-pence-steal-election

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Trump Is Now Openly Describing How He'll Steal the Next Election (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 OP
So he's saying VP Harris has the power to overturn the election if he wins? Ocelot II Jan 2022 #1
Seems to be. onenote Jan 2022 #2
What's good for the goose Mad_Machine76 Jan 2022 #6
Yeah there's that JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #3
+1 2naSalit Jan 2022 #4
So, will the DOJ and others finally admit that rump is openly advocating sedition and overthrow, SWBTATTReg Jan 2022 #5
He didnt want to win 16 OR 20 and he doesnt want 24 either. Runningdawg Jan 2022 #7
Nailed it!! PortTack Jan 2022 #8

onenote

(42,690 posts)
2. Seems to be.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 01:13 PM
Jan 2022

Of course he's too stupid to recognize the implications of his own narcissistic argument.

Mad_Machine76

(24,406 posts)
6. What's good for the goose
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 02:36 PM
Jan 2022

is good for the gander. I'm sure that Al Gore is kicking himself right now. Or even Joe Biden for that matter.

SWBTATTReg

(22,110 posts)
5. So, will the DOJ and others finally admit that rump is openly advocating sedition and overthrow,
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 02:30 PM
Jan 2022

regardless of his loss in his run to the WH? When will the damn DOJ finally move/act? How long do we have to listen to this idiot espouse rebellion and being a traitor to long-established American norms in election cycles?

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
7. He didnt want to win 16 OR 20 and he doesnt want 24 either.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 02:45 PM
Jan 2022

All you need to do is look at his face the moment he realized he won in 16. He was CRUSHED. He never wanted the job he only wanted access to the high roller's check books. But he got a taste of the power of a cult and here we are. Loosing and the backlash, is much more gratifiying to a man who just wants to watch the world burn.

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