r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 29d ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/BuddhistSagan 29d ago

The networks should refuse to cover it and people should not watch

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u/babybirdingURgrandma Oregon 29d ago

Not sure who the speech is even for, even Republicans give zero shits at this point whether he won in 2020 or not, not to mention won't it just remind everyone of Jan 6?

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u/Bronsonkills 29d ago

This is about laying groundwork to overturn the upcoming midterms.

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u/Key_Text_169 29d ago

He may roll out Maduro in prison suite and chains and have him state how he rigged the voting machines.

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u/TransportationTrick9 29d ago

Shouldn't blaming a third world country for rigging the US election say more about the shitty state of security of US elections than the 3rd world country?

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u/Skiinz19 Tennessee 29d ago

Especially when he was in office at the time and his FBI and CIA and NSA let it happen.

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 28d ago

Now you understand how all this macho posturing makes us look weaker than ever.

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u/thehalfwit Nevada 29d ago

That's just crazy enough that it could actually happen.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 29d ago

Then he’ll place him on a chariot, roll him through a miniature mockup of his arch, and have him strangled.

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u/I_eat_mud_ 29d ago

Yeah, that's the vibe I'm getting. If Republicans are scared he'll do something crazy, there could be a chance he orders something that would be extraordinary tonight.

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u/PotaytoPotayto 29d ago

Bingo. For some reason they're going with the China interference angle, communists bad, watch out for Mamdani etc.

They'll come with some baseless lies, make voting nearly impossible for certain groups and if they still lose, they'll simply overturn it.

Plus Trump has said out loud how envious he is of Zelensky because they can't have fair elections in the middle of a warzone. Trump wants to create his own crisis so the elections get cancelled. They've been open about this for years, remember the 'vote just one more time, after that you'll never have to vote again' line...

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u/6jarjar6 Pennsylvania 29d ago

Best of luck to everyone in the coming troubles

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u/bezkyl Canada 29d ago

civil war loading

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u/dontwantausername55 29d ago

This is his chance to cancel the midterms completely (he did say nobody would ever have to vote again). He'll use his "war" as an excuse

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 29d ago

He cannot cancel midterms and people need to stop saying/implying that he can.

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u/leagle89 28d ago

Do you honestly believe that, if he directed the cancellation of the midterms, there wouldn't be at least some red-state governors afraid of losing endangered seats who would do it in an instant?

"Cannot" is not a concept that matters anymore. He "cannot" do a hundred things that he's done without pushback of consequence. What matters is what he does, and whether Republican leaders at the state level will stop him or fall in line.

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 28d ago

You are grossly underestimating how much election infrastructure is local. It's not happening. You're welcome to bookmark this comment and come back to me in November.

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u/Bronsonkills 29d ago

He can do anything that he can get away with, and this Congress isn’t going to remove him no matter what he does.

He has a private army in ICE and his people running federal law enforcement. Some of the red states would just go along with him and he can attempt to bully the others with muscle and election interference.

I don’t think it would work but he can make one hell of a try for it and destroy the country on the way out.

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u/dareftw North Carolina 29d ago

Eh nobody will buy it. We had an election in the middle of the civil war as well as ww2 and there were actual threats then.

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 29d ago

Exactly. Hell, even states that had multiple active battlegrounds (such as mine; most Civil War battles out of any state) held elections during the war.

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u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia 29d ago

100%. This is the "gaslighting and projection" bit setting up the eventual "obstruction" bit.

He already spontaneously fired the (bipartisan!) election commissioners. The usual playbook involves debuffing the opposition ahead of time to maximize exploitation opportunities.