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CantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Trump Was ‘Not Going To Leave’ The White House, Lawyer Testifies In Georgia Case

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CantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Jenna Ellis told investigators a senior White House aide insisted to her that Trump was just going to “stay in power” despite losing the 2020 election.
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    I’m sorry to say it, but you’re a bad joke.

    This massive push to make Trump the big bad wolf as scary as possible to scare people into voting for Biden when they fundamentally disagree with his actions is really getting ridiculous.

    Cheeto and his buffoon squad are not competent enough to be nearly as dangerous as the media is trying to scare us into believing.

    To describe a first-hand account from a witness’ sworn testimony in a legal proceeding as a “massive push” or something the “media is trying to scare us into believing” shows that you have a very weak grasp on media literacy. The last thing you should be attempting to do is create narratives on behalf of Trump–he already has an army of useful idiots downplaying his fascist actions, so he doesn’t really need you.

    Their “coup” was just walking into the capitol, literally smearing shit on the walls, and then getting locked up in prison for doing it.

    An unsuccessful coup is still a attempted coup, just like an unsuccessful murder is still an attempted murder.

    Not to mention that you’re downplaying what happened on election day, on and around January 6th, and multiple points in between and since. Here’s a small sample of actions by Trump and his allies:

    • Trump and his allies call for the vote counting to stop on election day, ultimately leading to the harassment of volunteer election workers.
    • Trump and his allies gain unauthorized and unsupervised access to voting machines in contested states.
    • Trump and his allies organize multiple slates of fake electors in an attempt to change the outcome of elections in states that he had lost.
    • Trump and his allies continuously spread lies and disinformation about the 2020 election, despite knowing internally and losing nearly 100 court cases on their demonstrably bogus claims.
    • Trump and his allies discuss invoking martial law and the insurrection act to forcibly and illegally steal voting machines from contested states.
    • Trump pressured Pence into overturning his election loss during the certification process, despite being told that it was illegal to do so by his own staff.
    • Trump not only called for mass demonstrations on January 6th that he described as being “wild”, but he also personally ordered his armed, dangerous and violent crowd to assault the US Capitol in order to force Senate Republicans into going along with his plan to overturn the 2020 election.

    I could do more, but frankly I don’t have all day to fight against stupid disingenuous bullshitters. I’m sure that you know all of this stuff already, because it’s not like it isn’t common knowledge. So I guess the real question is, “why lie about it?”.

    Maybe it’s because you want Trump and his increasingly fascist supports to further take control of the United States government. But either way, it’s not Biden who is damaging the country, it’s the fascists who support Trump, and the ignorant/complicit people like you who un/knowingly empower them.

    One thing is for sure, the next Trump administration is showing many signs of being more fascist, more authoritarian, more autocratic, and more dangerous than the last. And I personally don’t believe that he and the people who support him have any intention of ever allowing for a peaceful transition of power to any other democratically elected leader, based not on some kind of “lugenpresse narrative”, but purely on their own actions and words.

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