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kentuck

(116,421 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 04:22 PM 23 hrs ago

Did someone sabotage Trump's speech last night?

Why did he release documents that contradicted his claims of election interference? Did he not realize what was being released? The documents showed that Russia, not China, was the primary source of attempted election interference, and they were attempting to help Trump?

White House staff was "happy" that he did not go as far as they thought he was going to go in his speech? How far did they think he was going to go?

Did they think he was going to attack the legitimacy of the two Senators from Georgia? That was the rumor before the speech. But he seemed to have that information removed from the teleprompter?

The speech he gave was not what most anticipated? Why was that?

Even FOX did not fawn over his remarks? That was very unusual.

John Solomon, one of his trusted advisers, made a comment after the speech that there was no votes changed by foreign sources in 2020, 2022, or 2024. His aides were attempting to drag him away from the reporter.

It seems that there are "insiders" that are not happy with Trump trying to use the Big Lie once again and have put obstacles in his path? FOX News seems to be aware of the "strategy".

In hindsight, there seems to be some folks attempting to save Trump from himself.

There seems to be something going on behind the scenes that the viewer was not privy to.

Just my opinion.

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Did someone sabotage Trump's speech last night? (Original Post) kentuck 23 hrs ago OP
That speech was classic Trump over-promising and under-delivering MikeyDi 23 hrs ago #1

MikeyDi

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1. That speech was classic Trump over-promising and under-delivering
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 04:33 PM
23 hrs ago

I was honestly hoping for true lunacy and got some warmed over China "espionage" that I already knew.

This is what I think happened. Trump got a wild hair up his ass earlier this week over....something. And it made him remember the 2020 election and the SAVE Act and he went on social media and promised a bombshell speech that I think he thought was going to result in.....I dunno....Ossoff being sent to a star chamber or something.

So then he turned to his staff and said "Write me a speech."

And his staff produced a popcorn fault.

So he screams at Susan Wiles and she upped his Lithium and somehow convinced him to go with this weird "China did it" speech.

That speech was classic low-energy Trump when he thinks h's going to McDonalds and is instead fed a bag of microwaved frozen veggies.

If his pattern holds true, he's going to hold a rally soon where he really goes off on the craziest election shit, but it will be at a rally and for some reason what he says in those things doesn't count.

We've been doing this shit for eleven years. I'm tired.

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