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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:02 PM Jan 2021

MAGA MANIACS TURN ON TRUMP: 'GET OUT OF OUR WAY'.................

TRUMPY SOLD THEM OUT TO SAVE HIMSELF [little good that will do]

01/15/2021 03:37 pm ET
Feeling Betrayed, Far-Right Extremists Have A New Message For Trump: ‘Get Out Of Our Way’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-supporters-betrayed_n_60016777c5b62c0057bc11ab
As Trump backs down from his “Stop the Steal” hoax, the supporters he radicalized are vowing to carry on the fight without him.



By Jesselyn Cook


For months, President Donald Trump’s message to his supporters was clear: The election was being stolen from him, and they needed to fight to take it back.

So on Jan. 6, during a Trump-promoted rally to “Stop the Steal,” thousands laid siege to the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to do just that. The fallout of their failed insurrection, which resulted in five deaths, was swift: Trump was deplatformed from nearly every major social network and, on Wednesday, impeached for a historic second time.

When he emerged on camera a short while later, tail tucked between his legs, to condemn the rioters whom he himself had incited, and to call for a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden, his base felt betrayed.

“So he basically just sold out the patriots who got rounded up for him,” one person wrote in a 15,000-member pro-Trump Telegram group. “Just wow.”

In online havens for MAGA extremists, including Gab, CloutHub, MeWe, Telegram and far-right message boards such as 8kun, the tone toward Trump is shifting. HuffPost reviewed thousands of messages across these platforms and found that a growing minority of the president’s once-devout backers are now denouncing him and rejecting his recent pleas for peace. Some have called for his arrest or execution, labeling him a “traitor” and a “coward.” Alarmingly, many of those who are irate about Biden’s supposed electoral theft are still plotting to forcibly prevent him from taking office — with or without Trump’s help.

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MAGA MANIACS TURN ON TRUMP: 'GET OUT OF OUR WAY'................. (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2021 OP
Example Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #1
Trump rolled to save his own ass? Tell me it isn't so... Wounded Bear Jan 2021 #2
It is absolutely so! jimlup Jan 2021 #6
When the rubes figure out they were conned - again, many will be too OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2021 #3
SOP for Trump. Those Guys are a little slow. StClone Jan 2021 #4
He encouraged them to break the law C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #5
Trump wasn't loyal? Permanut Jan 2021 #7
Well, North Shore Chicago Jan 2021 #8
They empty out the asylums? pwb Jan 2021 #9
The hardcore white nationalists have always viewed Trump as a means to an end. marmar Jan 2021 #10
Makes one wonder if Russia may have turned on him to keep the kettle boiling. KY_EnviroGuy Jan 2021 #11

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
1. Example
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:04 PM
Jan 2021

What’s extremely disappointing and disgusting is that President chose
not to fight. He did nothing except mouth some inconsequential
blather. He never fought back. He never drew blood. He capitulated
He deserted us
64 posted on 1/13/2021, by bert


Wounded Bear

(58,666 posts)
2. Trump rolled to save his own ass? Tell me it isn't so...
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:05 PM
Jan 2021


Trump has no loyalty to anyone not named Donald J Trump. He covers his own ass, that's all. Everybody else is expected to die for him.

We knew this wouldn't be over when Joe is signed in. They're in it for the violence, not some fearless leader.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
6. It is absolutely so!
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:20 PM
Jan 2021

That is what rRump does.

Will be so glad when we can start cleaning this stain off of our nation.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,504 posts)
3. When the rubes figure out they were conned - again, many will be too
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:10 PM
Jan 2021

ashamed to own up to their freedumb-ness. A lot of people have been totally wrong about their political choices over the past 40 years....and we are reaping the wind.

StClone

(11,683 posts)
4. SOP for Trump. Those Guys are a little slow.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:13 PM
Jan 2021

Worst outcome for all. Trump is getting buried, America with shades of Reconstruction. Death, disaster, and hate for dear leader, and he turns on them Pee-rod Boyz. Wall Street is big winner though.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
5. He encouraged them to break the law
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:17 PM
Jan 2021

Now they're going to jail as Trump throws them repeatedly under the bus. Maybe they'll finally realize he's been using them all along. Trump doesn't give a fuck what happens to the magats as long as they aren't profitable to Trump.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
11. Makes one wonder if Russia may have turned on him to keep the kettle boiling.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:57 PM
Jan 2021

After all, he's of little use to them now........

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