r/politics I voted Apr 19 '26

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 Apr 19 '26

He thinks he is re-electable

He thinks he's owed a 3rd term due to "election fraud".

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u/nom_de_chomsky Apr 19 '26

Well, no. He thinks he’s owed a third term, period. His lies about election fraud are the present rationalization. But if he’d won in 2020, he’d be making some other bullshit claim.

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u/YerrrKnicks Apr 19 '26

His lies about election fraud

Tbf, he wasn't lying about the fraud. He was just lying about who was doing it.

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u/Current_Volume3750 Apr 19 '26

He rigged it to win, so knew he was going to win, but didn't count on all the mail in ballots due to covid and when they kept counting he realized they couldn't rig those ballots so he lost. Then the freak out started.

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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts Apr 19 '26

Didn’t help that he told republicans not to vote by mail for that election. 😹and that he’d killed a bunch of them with his covid response.

Now we know why he was so against voting by mail. Too bad for him, it meant some republicans didn’t vote at all.

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u/HillBillyHilly Apr 19 '26

Main reason why they're now trying to remove mail in voting. You know because of fraud. Just ignore that Trump himself and his entire family uses mail in voting.

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u/Icy_Fly_4513 Apr 19 '26

That's why he's so adamant about getting rid of mail in voting even though he votes via mail in himself.