Posted on 01/30/2022 9:48:50 PM PST by Robwin
Former President Donald Trump conjured a vision of a second term that would function as a tool of personal vengeance, and become even more authoritarian than his first, when he vowed to pardon US Capitol insurrectionists if he runs for the White House again and wins.
His pledge at a Texas rally Saturday was accompanied by a call for demonstrations if prosecutors in New York, who are probing Trump's business practices, and those in Georgia, looking into his attempts to reverse his election loss in the state, do anything that he defined as wrong or illegal. The comments underscore Trump's obsession with delusional lies that he won the 2020 election, and his determination to put that falsehood at the core of the Republican worldview. As was often the case during his four years in office, Trump's pardons threat shows that he still makes no distinction between his personal goals and the national interest or rule of law.
But the former President's new rhetorical outburst also at times hinted at concern with his own legal position, and comes at a moment when various criminal and congressional lines of investigation seem to be tightening around him. The House select committee probing the January 6, 2021 riot has now penetrated deep inside Trump's West Wing inner circle, and he lost a Supreme Court bid to keep key documents secret. The likelihood of a damning accounting from the committee, bristling with new details about Trump's attempt to destroy American democracy, is growing, though the GOP has sought to thwart it at every turn.
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“Hopeful for DeSantis.”
No way he’ll run if Trump does, and Trump is going to run. Plus DeSantis’ wife has breast cancer, and he won’t run if she is still in treatment or seriously ill. He will run in 2028, mark my words (he’s my Gov here in FL, by the way, and I love him).
“No one likes a sore loser who can’t move on.”
It’s more like no one will like you; you’re a downer.
“The comments underscore Trump’s obsession with delusional lies that he won the 2020 election, and his determination to put that falsehood at the core of the Republican worldview.”
The vast majority of Pubs in polls believe the 2020 election was stolen. YOU are the minority.
What rock did you crawl out from under? Go back under your rock.
Flaglady isn’t bright enough to know the quotes are from the article.
Feeble in the mind,
Always lag behind.
OK, have at it. Form a PAC that focuses on 2020. It’s a winning strategy!
Chill out dude.
If we wanted squishy invertebrate opinions we’d ask for them.
That crowd of “No one” and “People who don’t like..” was pretty impressive last Saturday.
In your mind of the universe...people don’t like...because
YOU DON’T LIKE.
“OK, have at it. Form a PAC that focuses on 2020. It’s a winning strategy!”
You’re monicker is such a joke. Tea Party Terrorist. Yeah, you’re some terrorist. Tea Party wimp is more like it.
Then stop posting the comments all over the thread. And your point in doing so is what?
Trump offers hope.
I'm disappointed that the mockingbird memo didn't tell them to use the word "dark".
“He’s got to stop obsessing over the 2020 election, to start with.”
Yeah, because rigged, fraudulent elections are just fine.
Pfffft.
Bull. Unless electoral fraud is fixed, and our votes secured, we will continue to live in a fantasy where we believe our vote actually counts and elites behind the curtain are not controlling electoral outcomes.
Im not willing to let this issue go. Maybe you dont care, but I want my vote safeguarded, to actually matter. And judging by the chants in the history setting crowd size at the last rally, im not alone.
Feeble in the mind,
Always lag behind.
Mike Pence is a footnote in history. A self proclaimed Christian and a feckless politician hardly worth mentioning. But love and support him if you will.
Trump is the one obsessed with Pence. Look at his most recent press release.
Trump is unable to move on from 2020 and making it a central campaign theme in 2024 is playing right into the media playbook.
I read that press release. Restating facts is not raging. I get it. You dont like Trump. Fine. But understand this from the majority of We The People, the man is loved because he kept his promises. The man is loved because he speaks his mind and doesnt couch his words in political speak. The man is adored because his love for country is not fake. In short, the man is loved and adored because he isnt someone like Mike Pence, Susan Collins, GW Bush, Mitch McConnell or Liz Cheney.
OK then if you think rehashing the 2020 election is a great 2024 strategy, have at it. Form a PAC and make the last election a central theme.
It will be redundant, though, bc Trump can’t move on from it and this is his plan.
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