'With Republican Support, Trump Has Gone Rogue,' A Renegade President

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'With Republican Support, Trump Has Gone Rogue. He wouldn’t be able to undermine our elections without GOP complicity.' By Nancy LeTourneau, Aug. 17, 2020, Political Animal, Washington Monthly.



- President Trump, joined by White House senior staff members, delivers a statement announcing the agreement of full normalization of relations between Israel & the United Arab Emirates, Aug. 13, 2020, Oval Office of the WH.-


Donald Trump called in to Fox and Friends on Monday morning to once again spread the conspiracy theory about mail-in voting being fraudulent.

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Here’s what he said: “I go by the election,” Trump said when the hosts of “Fox and Friends” asked for his response to concerns that he won’t allow a peaceful transition of power in the event of a Biden victory. Then the President added: “Now with that being said, I have to tell you that if you go with this universal mail-in, where you send millions of votes–in California tens of millions of ballots being sent to everybody and their dogs, okay? Dogs are getting them, okay? People that have been dead for 25 years are getting them–you have to see what’s happening. Then you’re never going to have a fair election.” “I’ll say this: You’re never going to have a fair election,” he repeated.

See Tweets: Of course, all of the president’s claims about California are a lie, which is demonstrated by the fact that the Republican Party of North Carolina is sending out applications for mail-in ballots with Trump’s picture on them next to a headline that reads: “Are you going to let Democrats silence you?”; Aug 13 Trump this morning why he won’t fund US Postal Service. “Now they need that money in order to make the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots ... But if they don’t get those two items that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting.”; Top WH Econ Adviser Larry Kudlow weighs in on stimulus negotiations, says "voting rights … that's not our game.”

The president made it clear that he would deny funding in order to block mail-in voting, while Kudlow referred to voting rights as a “liberal left agenda,” saying “that’s not our game.” As if it wasn’t already clear, by suggesting that voting rights are a liberal agenda, Republicans have now managed to make themselves the party that is against protecting the right to vote. The one thing we can be certain of is that all of this points to the fact that Donald Trump knows he’s losing, which represents obliteration to him. So as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the plan seems to be to claim victory on election night when in-person ballots will be tallied and then claim fraud as mail-in ballots are counted. Since the latter claim will have no actual data to prove fraud, the reality-based community will know that it’s a lie while his supporters will claim the election was rigged.

In other words, massive chaos will erupt over the outcome of the election.

That is precisely what Trump is hoping for, not necessarily because he wants to win, but to provide his delusions with cover when he loses. You might remember that this president still hasn’t admitted that he lost the popular vote in 2016—claiming that millions of people voted illegally. He went through the process of setting up a commission to document that, but it failed miserably and shut down pretty quickly. But Trump still brings the subject up when his delusions need cover. It is important to keep in mind that this president’s most loyal supporters are only a secondary target for these kinds of claims. First and foremost they are designed to assuage his own narcissistic ego and protect himself from the kind of annihilation that he assumes comes from losing...

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1. He really doesn't have a lot of recourse. If elections are close he can ask for a recount

Other than that how’s that going to move forward?

FYI: Biden has amassed a team of 600 attorneys to deal with dotard if he pulls any shinnanigans