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Trump doesn't want your vote in 2024. Just your obedience while he trashes the U.S. again
The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. This is what an election looks like to Donald Trump. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Don’t misunderstand what Donald Trump means when he says he’s running for president again, as he did Tuesday evening.
He doesn’t mean that he will present his case to the American people in 2024 in the expectation that a majority of them will choose him, as they have never done before — not in 2016, when he lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, nor in 2020, when he lost both.
He doesn’t mean that he puts his faith in American democracy, election integrity, the laws of presidential succession or any other institution that is coterminous with the nation itself. He doesn’t mean he plans to abide by any of those things.
That would be what pretty much any other candidate would mean. But not Trump.
The ex-president has demonstrated unmistakably that he intends to take the office by hook or by crook, by denying the validity of any vote against him, by lying to his armed and angry rabble, by pressuring state election officials, state legislatures and federal courts to lie, cheat and otherwise betray the American people and their democracy.
He means that winning office, for him, need not mean being elected to it, but merely attaining it, even by coup if that’s what it takes.
That’s not hyperbole, or mere opinion. It’s not simply a hunch or a worry. It’s a fact, verified by his shocking and unprecedented actions and statements following his Nov. 3, 2020, defeat.
It’s inherent in his blatantly false claims that ballots two years ago were lost, stolen or fraudulently cast. It’s documented in his attempt to obstruct Congress in certifying his election loss by calling on his vice president to break the law, and by summoning his own supporters to Washington to march on the Capitol to thwart the ceremonial count.
It’s clear by his rapt attention to the televised deadly invasion of the Capitol after his speech whipping up the mob, and his failure, for more than three hours, to call on the insurrectionists to stand down.
It's evident by his role in adding Jan. 6, 2021, to the list of unforgettable dates — Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001 — on which the nation's laws, democracy and freedom were imperiled.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-trump-doesnt-want-vote-022411346.html
Bob Woodward calls Trump an 'unparalleled danger' No sh*t!
The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. This is what an election looks like to Donald Trump. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Don’t misunderstand what Donald Trump means when he says he’s running for president again, as he did Tuesday evening.
He doesn’t mean that he will present his case to the American people in 2024 in the expectation that a majority of them will choose him, as they have never done before — not in 2016, when he lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, nor in 2020, when he lost both.
He doesn’t mean that he puts his faith in American democracy, election integrity, the laws of presidential succession or any other institution that is coterminous with the nation itself. He doesn’t mean he plans to abide by any of those things.
That would be what pretty much any other candidate would mean. But not Trump.
The ex-president has demonstrated unmistakably that he intends to take the office by hook or by crook, by denying the validity of any vote against him, by lying to his armed and angry rabble, by pressuring state election officials, state legislatures and federal courts to lie, cheat and otherwise betray the American people and their democracy.
He means that winning office, for him, need not mean being elected to it, but merely attaining it, even by coup if that’s what it takes.
That’s not hyperbole, or mere opinion. It’s not simply a hunch or a worry. It’s a fact, verified by his shocking and unprecedented actions and statements following his Nov. 3, 2020, defeat.
It’s inherent in his blatantly false claims that ballots two years ago were lost, stolen or fraudulently cast. It’s documented in his attempt to obstruct Congress in certifying his election loss by calling on his vice president to break the law, and by summoning his own supporters to Washington to march on the Capitol to thwart the ceremonial count.
It’s clear by his rapt attention to the televised deadly invasion of the Capitol after his speech whipping up the mob, and his failure, for more than three hours, to call on the insurrectionists to stand down.
It's evident by his role in adding Jan. 6, 2021, to the list of unforgettable dates — Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001 — on which the nation's laws, democracy and freedom were imperiled.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-trump-doesnt-want-vote-022411346.html
Bob Woodward calls Trump an 'unparalleled danger' No sh*t!
