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He tried to lead an insurrection four years ago. Has stated that if elected, you won't have to vote again. Has called for removal of broadcast licenses for the press. Has said he'd be pleased if the press were murdered.
innocentoldguy | parent | next
The Trump-hating FBI disagrees with you.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-e...

bagels | root | parent | next
That is a narrow finding.
manquer | root | parent | next
> Trump-hating FBI disagrees

I think citation needed here that FBI or any law enforcement agency for that matter is anti-trump.

If anything given their deep racial history not that long ago, I would characterize them as very pro trump.

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drusepth | root | parent
What makes you think the FBI hates Trump?
kernal | parent | next
>He tried to lead an insurrection four years ago. Has stated that if elected, you won't have to vote again. Has called for removal of broadcast licenses for the press. Has said he'd be pleased if the press were murdered.

The rhetoric and lies you've repeatedly said about Trump is exactly the reason your party was so soundly rejected in the landslide electoral college, the popular vote, the senate, and the house. Your lies and hoaxes don't work anymore.

bagels | root | parent
It's not my party, I just think Trump is uniquely unqualified for office.
huhkerrf | parent | next
I hate when people make me defend Trump.

The "you won't have to vote again" was clearly him saying that he didn't care if the people vote again, because it won't benefit him.

He didn't say that he'd be pleased if the press was murdered, in those words. Though I agree that what he said was awful.

This is the thing about Trump. He says things that are dumb or incendiary, then his opponents make it sound 100x. Then people who aren't terminally online see it and think, "is that all there is?" and it makes them think that he's not that bad, ignoring the actual bad things he's saying.

cpursley | parent
This is exactly what Elon was talking about how so many people still believe the multitude of hoaxes which have been thoroughly and objectively disproved. It’s as if people were OK with just going with the original drive-by media headline and never looking into the details or following up.
bagels | root | parent | next
None of these are hoaxes. Did you look in to the fake elector plot, which people have pled guilty to?

I think a lot of people give Trump benefit of doubt when he says these things, but he literally said them.

Paradigma11 | root | parent
So explain to me how it would have played out if Pence would have gone along with the fake elector plot?

Aside from Trump not many people deny Biden won 2020. How would Biden have become president?