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Outrage or Genius? Trump Refuses to Accept Results of Election in Third Debate
PJ Media ^ | October 19, 2016 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 10/20/2016 1:08:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump is more similar to the Founders of our country than anyone who has run for the presidency in my lifetime.

What?! What?! Didn't Trump just jump an entire school of sharks in the third debate, saying he didn't know if he would accept the outcome of the election. Isn't he finished? Are you out of your bloody mind, Simon?

Okay, maybe, it wouldn't be the first time... but hear me out.

Put briefly: If Donald Trump believes—as many of us do—that the FBI is corrupt, the Justice Department is corrupt, the other party is hiring violent paid thugs to disrupt his campaign rallies, that no one knows who is really registered to vote, that the press is stratospherically biased, and that his opponent, backed up by all those corrupt entities, should have been indicted, why would a patriot, or for that matter someone who is even routinely honest, necessarily accept the results of the election of that opponent?

Ben Franklin wouldn't. Thomas Jefferson wouldn't. James Madison wouldn't. Sam Adams wouldn't. Of course, those guys were revolutionaries. These days we're just, you know, "good citizens" who obey the rules and move on. With that kind of behavior in the past, our country wouldn't even be here. But never mind.

Not convinced? Think of the reverse. Suppose Trump had meekly said he would accept the outcome with the smirking Hillary—the woman he has called a crook and who, for all intents and purposes, is one—standing only a few feet away? Wouldn't that, in the true sense, have invalidated everything he has been saying? #DraintheSwamp, my eye!

Now, as we all know, Trump has been here before, back in the primaries, when he made no guarantee he would accept the nominee of his party and, as I recall, received a round of boos at that debate for his non-declaration. He later went up in the polls despite those boos.

Will that happen this time? Not if the mainstream media has anything to do with it. As I write they are damning Trump forever with faint praise—or should I say they are "concern trolling" him—by saying how well he was doing in the debate until he jumped that shark and betrayed everything our country stands for.

The implication here, of course, is that everyone should forgive Hillary Clinton after she is elected and just ignore what happened with the bogus FBI investigation. Good luck with that. More likely the road ahead will be extremely rocky with more WikiLeaks revelations (they could even be saving their more dramatic ones for after the election), not to mention defections from the FBI and elsewhere, subpoenas from Judicial Watch and others with inflammatory and illegal emails and documents appearing for years.

Okay, I'll say it. When Donald said he wouldn't necessarily accept the results of election 2016, he was doing us all a favor. The democratic republic about whose precariousness Franklin warned us at the founding is shaky indeed at this moment. Leaders have gone beyond the law, as the new Project Veritas videos painfully remind us once again. Only the toughest love can save our republic now.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; debates; fraud; hillary; trump
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To: ClearCase_guy
And why didn't Mike Wallace ask Hitlary the same question?
21 posted on 10/20/2016 1:25:33 PM PDT by McGruff (Time for a Tea Party II)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When were the election results determined to be a hitlary win?


22 posted on 10/20/2016 1:28:12 PM PDT by GregoTX
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember McCain when he said we had nothing to fear from a Obama presidency?

Those words will never be said by Trump about Hillary


23 posted on 10/20/2016 1:31:38 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Remember that time the holier than nows caused the loss our 2nd ammendment?)
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To: Ohioan

Same thing happened in Texas too. They burned the ballots so they could not be recounted.


24 posted on 10/20/2016 1:35:01 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


25 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:18 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time...”

Donald plans to do it without blood.


26 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:18 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


27 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:19 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


28 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:23 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


29 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:36 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


30 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


31 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


32 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:42 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


33 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:42 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


34 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:53 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Because these things are not debates, but shows.
Now, if it were an actual debate then yes both candidates would be answering the same questions.


35 posted on 10/20/2016 1:37:55 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time...”

Donald plans to do it without blood.


36 posted on 10/20/2016 1:38:41 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL! Perfect description.


37 posted on 10/20/2016 1:39:33 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: MrEdd

But are they really debates, or are they shows?


38 posted on 10/20/2016 1:41:22 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Ohioan

“Nixon made a terrible precedent setting mistake, in not filing a Court challenge to the “miracle” in 1960, whereby the Democrats came up with 25k Kennedy votes, on the day after the election, to save Illinois for Kennedy. That strange happening should have been challenged, and thoroughly investigated. Honest elections should not be sacrificed in order for those victimized to prove they are good sports!”

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Yes, looking back it was a huge mistake. I guess he couldn’t have known how the Democrat party would degenerate so far into evil.


39 posted on 10/20/2016 1:43:02 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: MrEdd

I think you just set a record.


40 posted on 10/20/2016 1:46:14 PM PDT by Mears
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