Trump: When I win, the people who tried to defeat me are going to prison
He’s openly calling for rigging the election via voter intimidation, in a truly classic example of Every Accusation is a Confession:
@realDonaldTrump
CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.
To continue to treat this as a normal election, the media have to either ignore this altogether, which generally remains Option #1, or to report Trump’s statements as if they’re not to be taken literally, or seriously for that matter.
BTW Trump, or whatever Goebbels stand-in he employs for the purpose, has posted on his Truth Social account 31 times today already.
I don’t know how much of a difference it would have made if the DOJ had actually gone after Trump and his co-conspirators immediately after they tried to overthrow the government, but it didn’t, and here we are. One consequence of that decision is that Trump doesn’t feel the slightest compunction about trying it again, before, during, and after this election. And let’s not ever forget the Sinister Six’s role in all this as well.