Trump Announces Plans to Finally Go Ahead and Prove Election Was Rigged ( www.rollingstone.com )

wagesj45 , 10 months ago

Still not serious about all this, huh. I have a hard time telling if he's legitimately losing it or just playing around hoping to run out the clock. Probably a combination of both, but this just seems like the worst way to handle this situation. And yet, he keeps getting away with it.

520 , 10 months ago

Running out the clock in his case means running out his own clock. trying to quash the trials after (if) he goes back into office is an extremely risky affair and may not even work against the state prosecutions.

bitsplease , 10 months ago

It’s basically what he’s always done, just keep promising salvation just around the corner.

It feels like a lot of people have already forgotten that after the 2020 election, he was going on about “Releasing the Kraken” every few days, as though he had a total gamestopper piece of evidence that he was just sitting on - nothing ever appeared. Before that he let on that he was going to “Drain the swamp” aaaaaany day now, just you wait - except nothing ever happened.

Trump is all about smoke and mirrors and empty promises. And it works for him because once he says it, his followers just believe it, even if he never talks about it again. Tons of Trump supporters still to this day believe that he had unshakable evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, just like tons believe that political corruption dissapeared under Trump, only to re-appear the second Biden took office.

And now all his supporters will believe that Trump is going to prove the election was a fraud, defeat all his indictments, and become president again. And when none of that (or certainly at least not the first two) happens, they’ll just claim the game was rigged and the deep state is responsible. It’s easy to always win when your supporters aren’t willing to consider the possibility that you lost