Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate
Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate
Former President Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.
With just days to go before his first — and likely only — debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.
“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump wrote, again sowing doubt about the integrity of the election, even though cheating is incredibly rare.
“Please beware,” he went on, “that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
Straight out of the fascist playbook. Claiming the election is stolen before voting has even taken place.
Yet the GOP is the one with a fake elector scheme.
Also from Nazi playbook - accuse your opponents for exactly what you are doing
Claiming the election is stolen before voting has even taken place.
He's been doing that since 2015
When did Presidential power start to include the power to jail whoever you want? Why does anyone even imagine that might be an ok situation?
I lost any general respect for nearly half of my fellow citizens in 2016, it hasnt improved a lot since.
Just watched Vice again last night. Supposed to be a bit funny but it is chilling. The seeds for this degree of power started around Nixon / Regan but only now are we about to see the kind of power Cheney worked for. Now even he fears this power.
I lost respect for them when George W sent 4k American youths to their death for oil. Destroyed the Middle East. And killed countless middle easterners. His VP made hundreds of millions a of dollars while in office assisting in this destruction.
And they reelected him cause the other guy might have changed his opinion about things.
Why does anyone even imagine that might be an ok situation?
Humanity has wanted kings since the old testament. Christians don't even care for the new testament epistles' warnings of authoritarians. Similar themes predate the bible in other religious texts.
Humans have a comfort and scaling problem. Once the group gets too large immediate comfort becomes the highest priority. No one wants to think for themselves. They'd rather a king decide for them.
Today is no different. The US now decides between an shallow orange king or an intelligent blue queen. They both have the same goals and lead to the same end. It's only a question of pace and marketing.
I've long known that when this country slips into fascism, my name will be on a list. I won't be on the first list or the second list. But I'll be on one of them. And eventually, they'll come for me.
Orange bad is the one that wants to make it a reality right now.
If you don't have dependants then I encourage you to get your name on that first list. We'll die together, without regret, our dignity intact.
Fuck that. If the orange bad 2.0 happens I'm getting the fuck out. I started thinking about it during the pan, when it became evident how much I hate a third of our population. Then we got a reprieve and I decided to hang because I genuinely love where I live (Bay Area). But I'm ready to take off in the first couple months of 2025 if I need to. I'm not doing that shit again.
But I agree. Antagonize them endlessly.
Be prepared, but not in fear. Also, Kamala Harris will win but the weird orange felon will certainly try to call in his goon squad and the Extreme Court.
He's going to start calling for their deaths any time now.
“Please beware,” he went on, “that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
What people don’t quite grasp is that he means exactly what he says.
He considers, for example, being a lawyer to be “unscrupulous behavior”. As is donating to anyone but himself. Or voting for anyone but him.
More nazi shit. Cool, cool.
Oh dear. Is the sad, confused, and weird old man rambling again?
doesn't even know where he is
I am the Law
Trump Dredd
Going to Prison if you Insult the President is called FREEDOM and EXACTLY what the Founders Intended!
#1 Maduro fan in the US
Who taught him the phrase "legal exposure"?
One of the lawyers he didn't pay
Mein Drumpf
The debate (Tuesday night?) is going to be a REAL shitshow. Hope the moderators/network don't protect him too much but expecting at least one n-word and a few unprompted threats of retribution to both democrats and republicans.
The people who live blog fact checking will likely need an open bar right next to them to get though it.
What do you mean? You can’t prosecute if they are official acts
Never thought we’d need a constitutional amendment that spells out the president and all elected and non elected government workers are subject to all the laws of the United States in the exact same way civilians are. But here we are.
How do we get this passed, folks?
As a constitutional amendment? Not going to happen. See: Texas
This will probably only extend to the democratic voters who allegedly cheated. The republican cheaters are just part of the process
Well, the Republicans are only cheating because "the other side is cheating so they have to even the playing field". Despite no actual evidence of any wide spread voter fraud.
I love that in the search for proof of cheating, they have found more republicans cheating than democrats
That's what a good authoritarian leader does. Persecuting the opposition, of course.
Does voting against him count as cheating?
Well Florida is now sending police to check up on ballot signatories. So there is a record of people filling out the ballot, who knows if they register what you voted. But I'd say yes.
I know anonymous elections are incredibly important, but I'd happily voice my votes in this case to shut down this bullshit.
Petition signatories, but I'm sure they'll be happy to expand that to ballots.
How democratic of you, Donnie.
He is afraid.
It's a veiled threat to election workers and everyone involved in the election
Dementia causes verbal aggression.
He wasn't that bright even before the dementia.
So related topic, what's a good anti-Trump group to give money to? Of course there's the Kamala campaign and Republican Voters Against Trump, but I feel like both of these are repeating attacks that are already out there and common in the media. Corruption is a bipartisan issue, and despite epic levels of corruption in his administration somehow many voters seem to view Trump as some sort of incorruptible guy.
If there was a group that would point out his alleged selling of pardons (which is quite apparent given who he has pardoned), hiring of lobbyists to run just about everything, politicizing the justice department (e.g. killing an investigation into an alleged bribe he got from egypt), and use of taxpayer-funded resources to reward allies and donors, they'd get an admittedly small chunk of money from me. Any group doing that?
Consider donating to your local high-school's sharpshooting team. If there had been more spots open on one of these high-school clubs honing the skills, accuracy, and range of our nation's young people, this election would have been very different starting about 6 weeks ago.
It's like when he threatened Hillary Clinton to send her to jail