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sheshe2

(83,785 posts) Sat Oct 28, 2017, 11:51 PM Oct 2017

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As Mueller closes in, Trump prepares his base for the worst

THE MORNING PLUM:
President Trump is again attacking the media this morning, and his broadsides carry a newly ominous edge: He is both faulting the media for allegedly downplaying the size and intensity of support from his base and accusing them of trying to deliberately weaken that support for him.

Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO, the Trump base is getting stronger!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017

This comes some 24 hours after Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein made big news by telling “Fox News Sunday” that if the special counsel finds evidence of crimes in the course of his probe into Russian sabotage of our election, it may be within the scope of his investigation to pursue them.

In these seemingly disparate developments, it is hard not to discern the potential for a volatile, combustible combination.

Because Trump is undermining our democratic norms and processes in so many ways, it is often easy to focus on each of them in isolation, rather than as part of the same larger story. But, taken together, they point to a possible climax in which Trump, cornered by revelations unearthed by Robert S. Mueller III’s probe and by ongoing media scrutiny, seeks to rally his supporters behind the idea that this outcome represents not the imposition of accountability by functioning institutional safeguards, but rather an effort to steal the election from him — and from them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/07/as-mueller-closes-in-trump-prepares-his-base-for-the-worst/?utm_term=.465b5c4ac1dd

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Everyday (Original Post) sheshe2 Oct 2017 OP

Let's not forget, had Hillary won the EC vote, Trump had said he wouldn't accept the results Mr. Ected Oct 2017 #1

Mr. Ected

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1. Let's not forget, had Hillary won the EC vote, Trump had said he wouldn't accept the results

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2017, 11:58 PM

Oct 2017

Whatever the outcome, chicanery was going to be Trump's response.

We are in the midst of a coup. The Republican Party was willingly co-opted by a Russian plant, and is exercising its governmental and press powers to suppress all dissent.

Most of the base hasn't a clue of what they're supporting. They're racists and bigots and fake Christians and the super wealthy, and all of them see something in Trump that echoes their sorry behavior. But under the veneer lies a lizard, a traitor, a turncoat, a confederate. He'd sell all of us out in an instant if it meant further aggrandizement and wealth for himself.

That's the horror wrought upon us by the ignorant and greedy. Their lot ought to banished to the furthest corners of existence.

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