The former president made multiple chilling warnings during an interview with Time magazine.
Donald Trump hasn’t quite let go of the possibility of utilizing mob violence if he loses the next election.
In a sprawling interview for Time magazine, Trump hinted that leveraging political violence to achieve his end goals was still on the table.
“If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he told Time. “It always depends on the fairness of the election.”
And from Trump’s perspective, that’s winning rhetoric. According to him, his incendiary comments supporting a mob mentality, his early warnings of forthcoming abuses of power, and his threats to be a dictator on “day one” are only inching him closer to the White House. “I think a lot of people like it,” Trump told Time.
Not really, because he’s not in power this time.
He can’t hold a protest in DC without approval and given how 1/6 turned out, nobody will give him approval if he loses.
I mean, he could tweet about how people should show up anyway. I don’t know if it would be effective or not, but knowing how rabid his fans are, it could lead to something. This is just more of his plausible deniablitity shtick. “Oh, a juror I don’t like very much lives here. It sure would be a shame if a bunch of folks harassed or threatened them into doing what I want”
Dude lost 4 years ago and still has a fanatical base that swears it didn’t happen.
Last time Trump ensured that police and so on couldn’t prepare. Plus denied any assistance on the day. That alone is a huge difference.
I hope so. The alternative is they show up armed this time.
Yeah, and then you get stopped and arrested on gun charges before you even get there.
And this time around he can’t prevent deployment of the national guard