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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 10:36 AM Feb 2021

Trump hints it would be 'very bad' for Democrats....

From March 2019:

Trump hints it would be 'very bad' for Democrats if his supporters among the military, police, bikers get 'tough'

https://www.businessinsider.com/bikers-for-trump-breitbart-interview-military-police-support-2019-3


President Donald Trump made another reference to his supporters' potential for violence in an interview published Wednesday.

Speaking to Breitbart News, Trump said that while the left "plays a tougher game," his supporters "are tougher."

"I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad," Trump said. "But the left plays it cuter and tougher."

It's hardly the first time Trump's has talked up — and even goaded — his supporters' potential for violence.

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niyad

(113,587 posts)
2. Twice impeached FORMER president murdering traitor. Get his title correct, business insider.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 10:39 AM
Feb 2021

More threats, you f'n traitor???

NCDem47

(2,250 posts)
8. I'd add One-Termer too.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 11:44 AM
Feb 2021

The only winners in his presidency were billionaires and white supremacists. THAT'S a winning coalition? Right. Moving on.

ZenDem

(442 posts)
5. Yep...that's the pattern.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 10:42 AM
Feb 2021

It wasn't just the few weeks or months leading up to 1/6, it started the day he decided to run for President. He has an obsession with the stereotypical macho male and feeds their need for attention. It's a bromance of codependency.

no_hypocrisy

(46,202 posts)
6. Risking being discharged from the force for cause, risking court martial, risking
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 10:54 AM
Feb 2021

trial, conviction, and imprisonment? I don't think fighting for Trump and the consequences are worth it to these renegades.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
9. The Romans had way of exiling trash far less noxious than this.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 11:51 AM
Feb 2021

Isn't there an island or back water colony where we can send this odiousity?

Vivienne235729

(3,384 posts)
11. If he has the support of the military, we would have seen a military coup.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 12:04 PM
Feb 2021

Instead we saw a bunch of whack job extremists. That is why he has right now. But rest assured, we are finding his minions and we will weed them out.

davsand

(13,421 posts)
12. If ya gotta tell me how tough you are, you probably aren't.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 12:07 PM
Feb 2021

I learned pretty early on that anybody that has to tell you how tough they are is most likely blowing a lot of smoke. They might be a mean sprited SOB, but usually they just don't have the physical or emotional ability to deliver. Pendejo45 always struck me that way, and I have yet to have my mind changed about him. He's absolutely expressing his hopes and fantasies when he talks about his badass supporters.

Yeah, I have little doubt that a portion of law enforcement and career military types do support him, but take into consideration who (what personality type) is commonly attracted to those types jobs.





Laura

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