Some interesting things
Trump intends to take over the elections.
Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy.
In a radio interview on The Dan Bongino Show, Trump framed voting itself as corrupt, claimed elections were stolen from him and argued that Republicans should take over how ballots are cast and counted.
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Trump went on to reassert his long-standing false claim that he won the 2020 election, attacking states by name.
“We have states that I won that show I didn’t win,” he said. “Now, you’re going to see something in Georgia where they were able to get, with a court order, the ballots. You’re going to see some interesting things come out, but you know, like the 2020 election, I won that election by so much, everybody knows it.”
Trump’s comments come on the heels of an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office in Georgia last week, where federal agents executed a court-authorized search warrant and seized physical ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic images and voter rolls from the 2020 presidential election. The extraordinary action has drawn sharp criticism from local officials and voting rights advocates who say the materials were secure and that the raid feeds unfounded election conspiracy theories.
Are we going to sleepwalk into this?
In recent weeks, Trump has also suggested that the United States should not even hold the 2026 midterm elections, remarks the White House later dismissed as joking.
Yeah. That’s a great kind of joking for a president to be doing. Truly hilarious.
This remains a classic, by Alexandra Petri:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/07/trump-concession-speech/
Well, people are saying they don’t want me to be president anymore. And they are saying it very strongly, with their ballots. Did you know they can do that? I didn’t know that.
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So at first, I said, they’re stealing the election. Look at what they’re doing! They have gotten all these millions and millions of people to fill out little pieces of paper, and they’re trying to give the presidency away to whoever has the most little pieces of paper with their name on it, whether that’s me or Kanye or Joe Biden! Even though I’ve only had it four years and it’s like new. I’ve barely touched it. And they’re saying I have to give it away just because fewer of the little pieces of paper have my name on them, in certain, specific states? That doesn’t seem fair. So I said, what is this? What’s going on here? People, we’ve got to stop the count, I said! Stop the count. We can’t let this happen to our beautiful voting. And the man who is always calling me sir, he came in his hard hat, a big guy, tough, he said, sir, actually, that is voting.
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Recently both Jonathan V. Last (“JVL”) of the Bulwark and Ian Bassin of “Protect Democracy” (in an interview with Mona Charen, also of the Bulwark) have hinted at the possibility that the Trump administration might try to bribe or extort Nicolás Maduro into “confessing” that Venezuela did indeed meddle in the 2020 election in exchange for the same sort of favorable treatment they gave Ghislaine Maxwell. This would obviously have sounded like tin-foil-hat-level conspiracy-mongering in the not too distant past, but given everything that has happened in the last decade, it’s now the kind of thing we need to be prepared for.