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dweller

(29,146 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:33 PM 4 hrs ago

Donald Trump knows the end is near

HEATHER DELANEY REESE
JUL 17, 2026

At 9:01 p.m., Donald J. Trump stood in the East Room of the White House and delivered one of the most dangerous speeches ever given by an American president. It was not because of a foreign attack or because the country faced some new national emergency. It was because Donald Trump is still obsessed with the election he lost in 2020, and he is already laying the groundwork to rig the next one, less than four months from now. For 25 minutes, he gripped the presidential seal and used the full authority of the presidency to tell Americans that their elections cannot be trusted, that the intelligence community has been lying to them for years, that China secretly compromised the system, that the media is part of the conspiracy, and that anyone who opposes his election bill “wants to cheat.” This was not a speech about election security. It was a speech about convincing millions of Americans that they should distrust the results of the next election so that he can cling to power when Republicans lose.

As troubling as the speech had already become, it somehow kept getting stranger the more he talked. At one point he claimed investigators had discovered classified “burn bags” from the Obama administration and then said they had been “given by President Barack Hussein and Obama to be burned.” He followed that by explaining that these bags, which supposedly contained proof of the biggest election conspiracy in American history, had only survived because, in his words, “Maybe we got lucky.” He offered no evidence.
snip

( I said last nite in a post here , I would really like to read a transcript of this speech because it was full of illogically construed sentences , and Reese provided this )

“ And then there was the garbled, incoherent language that kept breaking through the teleprompter performance. At one point he said, “This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes and really exposes like levels never thought possible the hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference.” That is not a sentence. He was trying to describe China’s opposition to his reelection, he said, “They did naught [sic] not want and they just didn’t want it. They fought like hell not to have it. Donald Trump to win and for good reason.” He referred to himself in the third person mid-thought and the thought collapsed entirely. This was a man struggling to read words off a screen that someone else had written for him, and failing at it on national television. “

(I predict the Pisswig will fire his new teleprompter operator operator )

much more at link
https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/donald-trump-knows-the-end-is-near



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Donald Trump knows the end is near (Original Post) dweller 4 hrs ago OP
If China interfered in the election it was for trump to get in. Turbineguy 4 hrs ago #1
It was his "Emperor has no clothes" moment Fiendish Thingy 4 hrs ago #2
FOX & CBS don't matter. Aristus 4 hrs ago #5
They are already abandoning him Fiendish Thingy 4 hrs ago #6
I was referring to the die-hard cultists. Aristus 3 hrs ago #12
Indeed Fiendish Thingy 2 hrs ago #13
This whittles things down to a razor's edge! some_of_us_are_sane 3 hrs ago #9
My pleasure... Aristus 2 hrs ago #14
Maybe his guys in Hawaii orthoclad 4 hrs ago #3
Not near enough. Ocelot II 4 hrs ago #4
Kick dalton99a 3 hrs ago #7
Yes I'm made the same point in my posts as well FakeNoose 2 hrs ago #17
He should fire the sound engineer too. Maru Kitteh 3 hrs ago #8
Age has caught up to him Kaleva 3 hrs ago #11
People should never forget that Trump was in charge when the election was allegedly stolen Kaleva 3 hrs ago #10
NFS! Pinback 2 hrs ago #16
One of many dangerous incoherent utterances he has given. Since day 1. nt wiggs 2 hrs ago #15

Turbineguy

(40,343 posts)
1. If China interfered in the election it was for trump to get in.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:39 PM
4 hrs ago

The Chinese have 5000 years of experience in palace intrigue. The idiots that trump has working for him would never uncover their tracks.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,898 posts)
2. It was his "Emperor has no clothes" moment
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:46 PM
4 hrs ago

Finally.

Nobody , not even the sympathetic media at FOX and CBS, believed him or aided in amplifying his lies.

He stood there naked, and ALONE.

Aristus

(72,859 posts)
5. FOX & CBS don't matter.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 02:07 PM
4 hrs ago

All that matters are the screaming, meth-head, shit-flinging right-wing wastes of human protoplasm that support him. They will never give him up. He is the substandard, undereducated, vulgar, uncultured, bull in a china shop barbarian they have been waiting for for decades. They are shitty people, and live shitty lives surrounded by other shitty people; but as long as he is in power, they are over-the-moon happy about it.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,898 posts)
6. They are already abandoning him
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 02:15 PM
4 hrs ago

Of course, there will always be die hard cultists who will follow him all the way down to a crashing inferno.

Meanwhile, Dems are winning actual elections where their victories were mathematically impossible without crossover support from republican voters.

Stop and think about that for a moment.

Republican officials know this fact, and so does Trump.

orthoclad

(5,441 posts)
3. Maybe his guys in Hawaii
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:56 PM
4 hrs ago

investigating Obama finally gave him some material.

The ruling class knows he's collapsing. That's why media, even Fox and CBS, minimized his speech. Who are they priming to take over?

dalton99a

(96,713 posts)
7. Kick
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 02:22 PM
3 hrs ago
Then he said something that deserves far more attention than it received. “Great damage has been done to our country. Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen and the trust of the American people was lost.” But the election he is talking about is 2020. Donald Trump was the President of the United States. The federal government was under his control. His attorney general, his FBI director, his intelligence agencies, and his Department of Homeland Security all served under him. If the election had truly been “rigged and stolen,” it would have happened on his watch. But it wasn’t. Dozens of courts rejected his claims. His own administration found no evidence of fraud that could have changed the outcome. The American people voted against him, and he lost. That’s the reality he is still trying to rewrite.

But this time he did not just complain to the American people. He announced a plan, and he based it all around supposed evidence. But let’s look at what he actually released tonight, because the documents do not say what he told America they say.

Trump claimed that China carried out “the largest compromise of election data in history,” acquiring 220 million voter files from 18 states. He called it “an unprecedented election security nightmare.” But voter registration data is publicly available in most states. Trump did not explain how China acquired this data “illicitly” because he could not. Nothing in the declassified documents released tonight indicates that China altered a single vote, accessed a single voting machine, or changed the outcome of any election.

And the claim that China actively worked to prevent Trump from winning is not the consensus view of the intelligence community. The 2021 intelligence assessment, produced under the leadership of John Ratcliffe himself when he served as Director of National Intelligence, concluded with “high confidence” that China did not attempt to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. One intelligence official held a “minority view” with only “moderate confidence” that China sought to denigrate Trump. That minority view is what Trump presented to the country tonight as though it were established fact. It is not. And the same assessment’s core finding, which Ratcliffe himself did not dispute at the time, stated plainly: “We have no indication that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 election, including voter registrations, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.” That conclusion has not changed. What changed is that Donald Trump needed it to change, four months before a midterm election his party is expected to lose.

FakeNoose

(43,521 posts)
17. Yes I'm made the same point in my posts as well
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 04:17 PM
2 hrs ago

He complains and rails on the 2020 election ... And yet, that election was HIS RESPONSIBILITY. He was the president in 2020 wasn't he? Why wasn't the election safe? What was done incorrectly?

Please tell us all about how you f*cked it up, Mr. President.

Then tell us about how you KNEW you were going to lose, at least 6 months before the election. All the polls told you that you were going to lose, and it gave you plenty of time to plan your coup in advance.

You committed election fraud in Georgia, and they are going to take you to court. They have the witnesses and the proof, and you will be convicted in a state court. The Supreme Court will be no help to you at all. You will be thrown in prison.

Maru Kitteh

(32,183 posts)
8. He should fire the sound engineer too.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 02:26 PM
3 hrs ago

Also his dietitian, and whoever handles his night time medication. He sounded very old, flemmy, and disoriented.

Grandpa Flem.


Kaleva

(40,535 posts)
10. People should never forget that Trump was in charge when the election was allegedly stolen
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 02:44 PM
3 hrs ago

Pinback

(13,791 posts)
16. NFS!
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 04:16 PM
2 hrs ago

(No f***in’ shite). Has one reporter asked him about that? If so, I haven’t heard it. They’d probably be banned from the White House after that, but that would be a great one to ride out on.

And so the election was not stolen in 2016 or 2024, but it was stolen in 2020 and is about to be stolen in 2026? Those Chinese, inscrutable as ever!

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