Election interference
Former President Donald Trump, who makes frequent false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen through rampant fraud, warned Saturday that he would attempt to imprison anyone who engages in “unscrupulous behavior” during the 2024 race results.
No he didn’t threaten to attempt to imprison, he said he would imprison. Trump never tempers what he says with an awareness of limitations on his power, he just issues the threatyest threats he can come up with.
The threat was issued in a post on Truth Social, his social media website, and repeated his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, accusing Democrats of “rampant Cheating and Skullduggery.”
“The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, 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,” he wrote.
See? Nothing about attempting there, just will be prosecuted. Pure strongman.
He continued, “Please beware 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.”
Will be will be will be, because he will be will be will be the dictator who will order it to happen.
Also note the idiotic “unfortunately” placed, as always, in the wrong place so that the meaning is rendered ambiguous. He always does that. Why is it unfortunate that such “levels” have never been seen before in “our Country”?
In the lead-up to the 2020 election, Trump began making baseless warnings of election interference that grew louder after he lost and culminated in a mob attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block certification of Biden’s election. He’s begun making similar statements ahead of the 2024 election.
Because he intends to steal it and he’s laying the groundwork. Subtle he’s not.
Also the “WHEN I WIN.” In his mind, he is so polular and loved among real Americans, the only way he can lose is through the “rampant Cheating and Skullduggery” of his opponents. Voting against him is un-American, and therefore any votes against him are being cast by people whose votes shouldn’t count at all.
I imagine that to Trump, voting for anyone else is enough to be guilty of cheating and skullduggery.
I don’t believe he actually knows or understands the word “skulduggery” (though it is misspelled, so it must’ve been uncorrected). Someone feeding him lines maybe?
I’m currently reading:
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism
by Bradley Onishi
The author was in Evangelical Christianity but left it. When he saw the video of the 2020 January 6 insurrection, he wondered “Would I have been there if I hadn’t left Evangelicalism?”
Much of the book is about the beliefs of the White Christian Nationalists that lead them to support Trump.
They seem to believe that only white Christians should govern & Trump is how to get & keep that.
So anyone who is not a white Christian should not vote.