Trump scraps plans to release 'irrefutable report' claiming election fraud in Georgia ( www.nbcnews.com )

In a Truth Social post Thursday evening, Trump canceled Monday’s event and said the report would not be released that day, either.

“Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings,” he wrote in the post. “Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!”

ABC News reported Thursday morning that Trump’s legal advisers were actively urging him to call off the event, arguing that continued claims of election fraud could further complicate his legal problems in the Georgia case. NBC News has not confirmed the report.

And no one was surprised.

AOCapitulator ,
@AOCapitulator@hexbear.net avatar

We’ve got him this time

RavenFellBlade ,

Somebody explained to him that he can’t release something that doesn’t actually exist.

Fuckass ,

I want to be a fly on the wall of the QAnon patriots after JFK didn’t descend from heaven and unleash a biblical beast on Biden

aaaaaaadjsf , (edited )
@aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net avatar

He’s still going on about this? He still believes the elections were rigged? Wow, this would be a comedy if it wasn’t real. For added irony, in the one election he actually “won”, he was the candidate with less votes and only won because of some undemocratic electoral college nonsense lol.

UlyssesT ,

grillman brain requires Capitalization in random Places that seem Important.

shiveyarbles ,

He’s still thinking “when I get back in power I’m going to show them”. I don’t think he realizes what’s happening.

OctopusKurwa ,

This would have been so fucking funny. Damn lawyers ruining everybody’s fun.

Jaysyn ,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

It would have been yet another crime.

some_guy ,

Now my weekend starts with disappointment. It was gonna be fun seeing what he tried to peddle after all this time.

Anticorp ,

He’s probably scrambling to figure out how to get people to send him more money to release his whatever.

socsa ,

How stupid do you have to be to still support this idiot?

pottedmeat7910 ,

If you find out, let me know. I’ve been baffled since early 2016.

tal ,
@tal@kbin.social avatar

I think that some of it is that most people don't really carefully analyze the sum total what a politician has said or is saying and all the other related material. Which is reasonable -- I mean, I know that this is a politics forum, but for most people, following politics is not a huge part of what they do. It'd be really inefficient, in fact, if they did.

I think that a lot of support for politicians has more to do whether they've made statements that a potential voter agrees with in the very limited material about them that that voter sees. Not just for Trump, but for any politician.

So if you're asking someone about Trump, they're making something of a gut call based on the limited material they see of him.

Honestly, I think that the more-interesting issue here isn't really Trump, but the fact that Trump's tactics have worked fairly well. The problem here isn't really Trump. He's just a symptom of having a political decision process that can be gamed the way he's gamed it. We do not want to encourage politicians who lose an election to have an incentive to make bogus claims that the election was rigged, because part of what we want the political system to do is to permit coming to a consensus as to leadership. That undermines that.

But there's nothing unique about Trump that permits him to do that. If he could do it, then so could another politician. And I would imagine that sooner or later, more people probably will, if they think that it is to their advantage.

That is, I think what probably needs to be fixed is the system.

Anticorp ,

Apparently the bar is a sinking ship and people keep swimming under it.

Maeve ,

Not how, how willfully.

667 ,
@667@kbin.social avatar

I work in a professional field and… you would be surprised.

OppositeOfOxymoron ,

A lot of people lost their fucking minds over the course of the pandemic. My mother (formerly an intelligent and compassionate professional who owned a business in the banking and finance space) got pushed down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole over the course of the pandemic, and became a total and complete fucking moron that only gets their ‘facts’ from far-right blogs, youtube videos, and facebook posts that ‘own the libs’.

I am no longer surprised with the level of enthusiasm these people have for intellectual poison.

Tangentism ,

There’s studies showing that post COVID symptoms are loss of cognitive function.

A friend and I were talking about how quick to aggression people have become and the how it’s an unfocused aggression

OppositeOfOxymoron ,

She started down the path towards being an idiot before the pandemic. Every phonecall was some new bullshit that she’d latch on to, and when I calmly tried to explain how actually worked, she’d lose her shit, scream at me, and hang up. The isolation and disinformation campaigns throughout the pandemic broke her brain.

RangeFourHarry ,
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A lot of people’s social lives are breaking down, and generally the loudest voices are right wing conspiracies. It’s not that they’re dumb, it’s that often the only people willing to acknowledge that society isn’t working are reactionary as hell

RavenFellBlade ,

Society is working just fine for those of us who haven’t abandoned objective reality.

Fuckass ,

Usually these people are already right wing. But there have been some bleak stories of hippie adjacent people having their minds break during the pandemic and entered suicide pacts.

uSSRI ,

The amount of “left wing” unvaccinated hippies is astounding, and from there it seems like the right wing conspiracies slip in. Hippies are basically yuppies with a coat of mud though in my experience.

spaceghoti OP ,

Yuppies are what the hippies evolved into after Vietnam.

Kerred ,

What is interesting is the latest Newsmax article wasn’t being bias anymore, actually using sentences like Trump appointed officials say there was no evidence and whatnot

Sure the bottom of the article said it was from the AP but I am not sure if Newsmax is covering their butss or is purposefully copy pasted AP so their fan base, er, users, will get more outraged.

roguetrick ,

What's cute is this "display of weakness" will eat at him until he calls a fox news morning show and emails them the "report." Everyone knew he'd back down, but he also has no impulse control and will do it anyway

ivanafterall ,

My favorite part of this is how much it surely stung the child's fragile ego.

Anticorp ,

You’re assuming there is anything more than lies, which I highly doubt. There’s no evidence. There’s no report. There are no documents. There are only weak verbal lies.

MushuChupacabra ,
@MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world avatar

If it’s irrefutable, he should release it. That way, he can get all charges dropped, and make all of his legal woes go away.

Because it’s irrefutable.

thefartographer ,

I can’t refute THIS!

  • Judge trying to refute the evidence
CareHare ,

He tried so hard, but there is only so much refuting one can do.

Zozano ,

Being indicted? Try this one weird trick! Judges HATE him!

thefartographer ,

What the fuck, this article never even told me what the one weird trick was! Oh well, back to what I was doing before… God damnit, they put their homepage in my back history!

fleabomber ,

They took his sharpie away.

SayJess ,

I like to imagine he has a serious sharpie problem. He’s completely hooked on sniffing sharpies all day long. It starts with a one-pack, and before you know it, you’re getting bulk discounts by pretending to work in academia. The feeling when you twist off the cap of a new sharpie? Can’t be beat.

It would explain A LOT

ivanafterall ,

He's got several up his butt. He learned it on 4Chan. It's why his face always looks so unfortunate.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

Maybe next week...

goforliftoff ,

I think that’s infrastructure week.

Hoomod ,

It might be health-care plan release day

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