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yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 10:19 PM Oct 2020

Trump says plot to kidnap Whitmer was "maybe a problem, maybe it wasn't."

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-says-militia-that-sought-to-kidnap-and-michigans-gov-whitmer-was-maybe-a-problem-maybe-it-wasnt/

In a startling moment during his Michigan rally Tuesday, President Donald Trump implied that the militia that attempted to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) was maybe or maybe not all that big of a problem.

“People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn’t,” Trump told his rally.

It’s a commonly used tactic by Trump to say things like “people say” or “some say” or raise hypotheticals so that it gives him the ability to say “I don’t think that, people do.” But he has never been able to cite the actual person that said that to him.
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Trump says plot to kidnap Whitmer was "maybe a problem, maybe it wasn't." (Original Post) yellowcanine Oct 2020 OP
Putrid sack of shit belongs in prison - he started it dalton99a Oct 2020 #1
They want us dead, all of us Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #2
that's like bdamomma Oct 2020 #3
I want to see him in prison so badly. Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #4
Oh, man. so do I. smirkymonkey Oct 2020 #12
And if someone threatened his own family? Probably still the same sentiments. keithbvadu2 Oct 2020 #5
That from the thin-skinned snowflake who couldn't take Lesley Stahl's questioning? gratuitous Oct 2020 #6
Evil motherfucker. Pure as it comes. spanone Oct 2020 #7
And the Republicans turn a blind eye to it. Nt raccoon Oct 2020 #8
Stochastic terrorism... LudwigPastorius Oct 2020 #9
What was Charles Manson convicted of in the end? world wide wally Oct 2020 #10
What the hell is that supposed to mean? calimary Oct 2020 #11
Another excuse for the inexcusable Fyrefox Oct 2020 #13
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Oh, man. so do I.
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 06:55 AM
Oct 2020

More than anything in the world. I so want this motherfucker to pay for what he has done.

keithbvadu2

(36,949 posts)
5. And if someone threatened his own family? Probably still the same sentiments.
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 10:36 PM
Oct 2020

And if someone threatened his own family?

Probably still the same sentiments.

Especially for Melania who is getting long-in-the-tooth.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. That from the thin-skinned snowflake who couldn't take Lesley Stahl's questioning?
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 10:54 PM
Oct 2020

Tell you what, Donald. Challenge Joe Biden to a foot race. That'd show 'em!

LudwigPastorius

(9,190 posts)
9. Stochastic terrorism...
Wed Oct 28, 2020, 03:09 PM
Oct 2020

If he wins a second term, he'll have his own army of paramilitary brownshirts beating and assassinating his political opponents.

Fyrefox

(300 posts)
13. Another excuse for the inexcusable
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:11 AM
Oct 2020

Trump is just warming up his dog whistle, which Joe knows is enormous...

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