Trump: Massive Election Fraud Allows Termination of Constitution

The man is a dangerous nut.

WaPo (“White House rebukes Trump’s suggestion to suspend Constitution over 2020 election“):

The White House issued a stern rebuke on Saturday after former president Donald Trump suggested suspending the Constitution in his ongoing crusade to discredit the results of the 2020 election.

“Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement, calling the Constitution a “sacrosanct document.”

“You cannot only love America when you win,” he added.

Trump’s message on the Truth Social platform reiterated the baseless claims he has made since 2020 that the election was stolen. But he went further by suggesting that the country abandon one of its founding documents.

“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote.

The post came a day after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, claimed he would expose how Twitter engaged in “free speech suppression” in the run-up to the 2020 election. But his “Twitter Files” did not show that the tech giant bent to the will of Democrats.

“UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD REQUIRES UNPRECEDENTED CURE!” Trump followed up in another post on Saturday afternoon on Truth Social.

Trump, who last month announced he would run again for president, helped launch Truth Social after he was banned from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Musk has said he would allow Trump back on Twitter but the former president has not rejoined the platform.

Following up on this report is literally the first time I’ve been on Truth Social, the web version of which (I assume there is an app) looks remarkably like Twitter. Here, in paragraph form, are the relevant posts, in chronological order:

ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!!

Does anybody notice that the LameStream Media is REFUSING to report about, even a simple mention, the biggest Election Integrity and Interference Scandal in our Country’s History. Watch closely, you will see barely a mention. We have a CORRUPT MEDIA the likes of which has never been seen before, but fear not, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

I am glad that everyone is now seeing the light on what I have been saying loud and clear for the last two years, that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged and stolen by a combination of Democrats, Big Tech, “law enforcement,” and other bad actors. Sadly, we have become a corrupt Country, perhaps one of the most corrupt anywhere in the world. We MUST right this horrible wrong, and take our Country back!

Wow! That’s a really big story about Twitter and various forms of government Fraud including, specifically, Election Fraud. The same level of Fraud took place with the other Big Tech companies, if not even worse (if that’s possible?). We are living in a VERY CORRUPT COUNTRY &, AS THEY ARE SAYING ALL OVER THE INTERNET, “NOTHING WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT & FBI ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT.” But they’ll keep investigating “boxes” that were legally & openly taken from the W.H.

So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!

Each paragraph above is a separate whatever the platform calls its tweet-equivalent.

As a bonus, he put this out about an hour ago:

The D.A.s small and uneventful “Fringe Benefits” case (as opposed to Rape, Murder, or any one of many forms of Violent Crime which is taking place now in New York City at Record Levels), is a case the likes of which has never been charged or tried in such manner before (it is usually a small civil case, if even a case at all. Witch Hunt!). At Summation, the prosecutor made statements that weren’t true or factual in order to help his bad & nonexistent facts, and was called out by the Judge. SCAM!

Because he has so much influence with such a large following, the man is dangerous. He’s also, rather clearly, flat out nuts.

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Comments

  1. Michael Reynolds says:

    He’s scared, not nuts. The legal walls are closing in. He can’t even trust his own appointed judges and Justices. His poll numbers are dropping. His party is trying desperately to shove him under the bus. DeSantis threatens. Fox has turned against him. And for about the 900th time, the latest conspiracy mystery box turned out to be empty.

    Almost as bad: inflation is dropping, wages and jobs are rising, the market remains pretty strong, and under Joe Biden’s leadership we are once again the arsenal of democracy, degrading and weakening our enemies without firing a shot.

    Trump has always been a weak man, a psychopath whose symptoms mimic macho masculinity for his brainless Christian Nationalist and Incel culties. He knows he can’t win, because if he could win Ivanka would be with him, the little opportunist, and she’s not. And Trump knows if he cannot regain the White House his business will be dismantled and sold off for parts, and he may well go to prison. He can’t take the pressure and he’s cracking.

    Eventually he’ll call directly for an armed uprising. He’ll call for killing federal agents and RINOs. Donald Trump is a psychopath, utterly devoid of any human decency, he will not go gently, he’ll call for the obliteration of everyone and everything, before admitting that he is, in the end, a failure.

    But the good thing is: we are getting closer to the end of Trump and MAGA. What’s left now are the final, squalid events where we figuratively drag Trump out of his Saddam hole.

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  2. Sleeping Dog says:

    Trump has descended to the ranting, crazy uncle stage of life, all exacerbated, as @Michael Reynolds: points out, by the knowledge that he faces conviction, if not jail and financial ruin. The auction of Mar-a-Lago will shatter the schadenfreude meters and all but the most servile cultists will turn on him.

    Yes he’s dangerous and when he calls for violence, the ones to blame are the R senators, led by Moscow Mitch, who refused to convict him during the second impeachment. If there is a silver lining, beyond the entertainment he’s providing, it is that with each rant, he reduces the likelihood of him ever becoming prez again.

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  3. CSK says:

    @Michael Reynolds:
    That was the concern I was expressing yesterday: that Trump would call for an armed insurrection to restore him to the presidency.

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  4. gVOR08 says:

    I just checked the FOX “News” site and failed to find any mention of this. Trump’s toast.

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  5. Kathy says:

    I really don’t want to hear anything more about this individual, unless it’s the list of charges accompanying his indictment.

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  6. grumpy realist says:

    @gVOR08: I’d say that Fox is keeping quiet about Trump because they’re hoping everyone will wave this away as “oh, that’s just Trump; he doesn’t really mean it” if it’s brought to their attention.

    I suspect that this will be the response of most Republican politicians. They’ll continue to hand-wave away anything that Trump says because they want the support of his lunatics.

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  7. CSK says:
  8. OzarkHillbilly says:

    I don’t worry about trump or anything he says, he’s deranged and should be put in an asylum. The dangerous people are all the Republicans who won’t denounce him and his words. They swore an oath to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. If they can’t stand up on the floor of the House and the Senate and say as much they need to be removed from office.

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  9. Michael Reynolds says:

    @CSK:
    It’s the inevitable final act of this comedy.

  10. Modulo Myself says:

    @gVOR08:

    They want Trump to go away without changing anything else about what they do. Tucker can talk about how the dumb laptop story is the greatest assault on the First Amendment of all time, but Trump can go away, somehow, hopefully. I think Trump will challenge their weaknesses. He knows they can’t pull the trigger on the rest of MAGA.

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  11. EddieInCA says:

    Some very worried GOP operatives are very concerned right now because they’ve finally realized what many of us have said since 2016. If Trump doesn’t win, he’ll try to burn it all down. Fortunately for the Dems, “No Drama Biden” is staying silent on any personal attacks against Trump, and allowing Trump to be Trump, and focusing on the “American People”.

    Alot of GOP operatives and elected officials have finally had their “Oh Fvvk!!” moment. It took them awhile, but they’re there now. And there is nothing they can do about it.

    Trump’s going to be the best Dem asset going into 2024. Who’s going to take him down in the primaries? DeSantis? No. He’s only in his 40s. He can wait? Pompeo? Please. Pence? Be serious? Cruz? Nope. Larry Hogan? He wouldn’t even win his own state. Nope.

    The only thing that could hurt Trump is an indictment or conviction, and even then, it would be have to be on something he couldn’t spin to his base as a “fringe benefits case”, or “document storage dispute.”

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  12. EddieInCA says:

    On Oct 6th this year, the GOP House Judiciary Committee’s official Twitter account tweeted out: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”

    That tweet didn’t age well.

    Yesterday, they finally deleted it. All it took was Kanye promoting Hitler and Trump calling for abolishing parts of the Consitution.

    https://twitter.com/RyanDeto/status/1598386219435655173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1598386219435655173%7Ctwgr%5Ea7e62f230f742d4fb53443300fb73f67656b1ddf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Ftwitter2Fstatus2F1598386219435655173id%3Dmntl-sc-block_1-0-6-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D6834935

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  13. Lounsbury says:

    @Michael Reynolds: If the Georgia Senate seat is won by Warnock (and one does hope this is the case), it is a very solid hypothesis that more knives come out for Trump. God willing as one says. The more own-side cuts, the weaker he grows (the error of the Republican senators in not taking the chance to gut him politically after 6Sep with 2nd impeachment remains a baffling weak-minded call, as it was the perfect opening for the knife in the side, in good Roman fashion)

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  14. Michael Reynolds says:

    @EddieInCA:
    One other thing can hurt Trump: actual political violence by his people. The GOP is not entirely in favor of domestic terrorism. Only about half want to see bombings and assassinations. If Trump actively calls for violence, and crucially if violence ensues, he’s cooked. Or I should say even more cooked, he’ll go from medium rare to well-done.

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  15. Scott F. says:

    @Michael Reynolds:

    Eventually he’ll call directly for an armed uprising. He’ll call for killing federal agents and RINOs.

    The feral animal is most dangerous when its trapped, so I think you may be right.

    But, the “end of Trump and MAGA” will hinge on just how expansively the RINO label ends up being applied. Death threats are all well and good when they are being directed at Others like the apostates Cheney and Kinzinger. But, once the only way to stay in good standing with their base is to go along with renouncing the Constitution, the calculus changes for all the Republicans being oh-so-quiet this morning.

  16. Lounsbury says:

    @EddieInCA: It is perhaps better to say that they are finally realising not so much the “burn it all down” but their attempts to ‘manage’ and exploit the rabid animal being ridden are failures (predictable failures of course).

    Trump’s going to be the best Dem asset going into 2024.

    That seems likely so long as the economy is in a reasonable state, inflation is tamed to something in the 4-6% range, although preferably 3-5%. Then Trump as a wounded rabid dog may be a beautiful asset to have. Perhaps if Twitter is still servicing its debt and operating, on Twitter where the Journos will still be addictively hanging on for all its grossly distortive fun-house mirror tendencies.

    Less sanguine if a stagflationary environment continues (although it seems to me the US monetary and fiscal authorities has taken reasonable action here to avoid, for all the howling of inflation denialism on the white collar far Left).

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  17. Paine says:

    You know… give the flaws in the Constitution and how it is broken in favor of the Republicans I really wish dems would stop talking like this:

    “Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement, calling the Constitution a “sacrosanct document.”

    “You cannot only love America when you win,” he added.

    Given demographic drift in the future the dems are going to have to start “attacking the Constitution” or meekly accept minority party status in a country where their voters are a majority.

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  18. Modulo Myself says:

    @Michael Reynolds:

    Maybe violence will be the end of Trump. But if sitting down with holocaust deniers isn’t the deal-breaker, I don’t think we can count on violence doing the trick. The Republican party has enough people at all levels who are violence-curious in the same way that they’re race science-curious or antisemitism curious. I don’t think there are many (or any) ambitious young Democrats who work in DC who have alt social media accounts where they cosplay as Antifa. But there are a lot of young Republicans in the same positions who have alt accounts into hearing about how the Jews run everything. Violence is just going to be another thing to make fun of the cringe left about.

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  19. Just nutha ignint cracker says:

    @OzarkHillbilly: I neither worry about Trump, nor do I expect Republicans to deny who they are. They’ll release the Oath Keepers guy from prison and start passing out guns on the day they know they can pull off an insurrection. As long as they can’t win at gunpoint, the nation is secure.

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  20. Kylopod says:

    @EddieInCA: I don’t think deleting that tweet was because of Trump’s abolish-the-constitution statement. It was purely because of Yitler, nothing more.

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  21. EddieInCA says:

    @Kylopod:

    I don’t disagree. But the Constitution comment is the “Oh Fvck” moment.

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  22. CSK says:

    @EddieInCA:

    ‘…”No Drama Biden” is staying silent on any personal attacks on Trump…’

    Just an observation, but DeSantis seems to be doing the same thing as Biden.

    A WH spokesperson, however, did say that Trump should be “universally condemned” for attacking the Constitution.

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  23. gVOR08 says:

    @Michael Reynolds: I see maybe a little different scenario. You note he’s scared, it’s all closing in on him. He may well get desperate enough to want to call for violence again, in his usual indirect, evasive way. The Oath Keepers and Proud Boy types are likely not feeling like getting suckered again and are looking for a new fuhrer. If TFG calls for violence, nothing much is likely to happen. And he’s not likely to because he knows it. I’m expecting him to go out more with a whimper than a bang.

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  24. @EddieInCA: I am to the point that I am not so sure if such a moment can ever come–at least not until it is clear he can’t win the nomination.

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  25. James Joyner says:

    @Paine: As I noted in a post yesterday, calling for reform of the Constitution and calling to ignoring it are massively different things. I think it’s absurd that we’re governed by a document written in 1787 for a country of 4 million. But every government employee had taken an oath to support and defend it.

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  26. @James Joyner: Let me second this. While I support significant constitutional reform, that is a wholly different thing than a former president declaring the document should be suspended so that he can be installed in power.

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  27. Kathy says:

    I was very worried about violence, far beyond what we saw on January 6, while Benito was ensconced in the White House. At that time, he could have called out troops, invoked the insurrection act, and done other things.

    Now, he can’t.

    There are also differences between January 6 and now. For one thing, we know now what the deplorables are willing to do. for another, there’s no one single target the Cheeto can aim them at. And he remains an lazy and incompetent brute who knows far, far less than he thinks he does. He is still his own worst enemy.

    My big worry is he won’t be indicted and/or convicted by 2024*, and he might win the general election again.

    *That’s an absolute certainty. he may be indicted by then. But he won’t be tried and convicted until Biden’s second term, or at all if Florida Man or some other Republiqan takes the presidency in 2025.

  28. Flat Earth Luddite says:

    @James Joyner:
    @Steven L. Taylor:

    I wish you were right, but I don’t think the House GQP members got that memo. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-call-to-suspend-constitution-not-a-2024-deal-breaker-house-republican-says/ar-AA14TmhW?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=21dc4479cefd42e59192f87de982decb

    @Flat Earth Luddite: *

    *the JFC reference was one of my grandmother’s most scathing curses (in English), referring in absolute disgust to a politician – in my early days, usually Nixon or Goldwater.

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  29. Rick Abrams says:

    I wrote on December 5, 2016 (6 years ago) in CityWatch that Trump was mentally ill and I wrote several follow up articles about his being a narcissistic Histrionic with paranoid features. Of course, the GOP ignored me, but I was writing primarily about the DEM’s refusal to admit that Trump was literally a madman. Nancy Pelosi found it beneficial to her career for a lunatic to be rampaging through the GOP. Even after he launched a violent, armed assault on the Capitol to murder the vice-president, Pelosi protected Trump by refusing to allow the House Managers call any witnesses during the Senate trial. (see book Unchecked) Suppose the Los Angeles District Attorney had called no witnesses during his prosecution of Charles Manson. Pelosi’s behavior was even more ludicrous and dangerous to the entire nation since Trump was President.

    Here’s the tragic irony of Trump’s desire to terminate the US Constitution. That is exactly what Pelosi did when she sabotaged two Senate impeachment trials so that a literal madman would remain President and politically viable in order to benefit her career. Pelosi trashed the constitutional process which had been specifically designed to protect the nation from someone like Trump. Pelosi actually did what Trump proposes, but no one has the balls to say jack about Pelosi.