Trump says, “I always tried to play it down because we weren’t sure how dangerous it was and we didn’t want people to panic but we now know it’s too dangerous and we had to shut it down.”
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Media: TRUMP ADMITS HE LIED TO AMERICA!!!
Total nonsense.
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It is possible that a tape exists that makes clear that Biden was fully aware of what Hunter was doing and reveals that at a minimum Joe was aligned with him.
In that scenario, it is possible that the powers behind the scenes are effectively already conceding the Presidency.
If that tape truly exists, it is my speculation that Trump knew it existed way back in 2020. But at that time, after the impeachment and in the middle of Covid, there wasn’t any real way to effectively prosecute the case. At that time, it would have been perceived as Trump abusing his power to hurt Joe. Now it’s not a story about Trump abusing power because Trump isn’t at the helm. Instead it is properly received and understood as a story about Biden’s corruption.
If you go back over the last six months this feels like a slow and purposeful role out. So many things link to other things and you either have to believe Republicans keep getting lucky with one thing after another or this was all known in advance.
Does anyone believe that as you tear down the administrative state and reform the FBI/DOJ with the media pitching a daily fit that the 50% of the country that supports Democrats are going to seek to unite with you?
We need to fight.
We need a fighter.
Ron keeps promoting his accomplishments in Florida but any honest description of those accomplishments has to acknowledge that in Florida you have all of the political and legislative forces aligned with him, not against him.
And he has a mostly compliant media infrastructure.
Since Bill Barr has been in the media so much lately, I think this is a good time for me to write my wrap up on my Spygate speculation.
I’ll say this right up front, I stand by everything I wrote.
Not just the predictions but also the analysis.
Let’s go through it. /1
Early on, after Trump fired Comey and when everyone was screaming how Mueller would destroy Trump, I speculated that Trump actually was hoping to receive what I termed a “clean bill of health”. Meaning he saw value in a person like Mueller proclaiming there was no collusion. /2
To this day Trump uses “No collusion!” in his narrative around all of the hoaxes. In fact it’s one of the most powerful weapons he has in undermining the current prosecutions by showing how from the start, all of the attacks have been baseless. /3
I found this article from @NYMag titled “Trump Could Win Another Lesser-of-Two-Evils Election”. I think it’s important to understand the dynamics driving the current tight race that can and I believe will result in a clear electoral Trump victory. /1
The reality is that Trump overperformed amongst the crowd who “hate ‘em both” not just in 2016 but also in 2020, winning them by 17%. The problem? Their share of the electorate dropped from 18% to 3%. In 2020 voters mostly just hated Trump. /2
As I keep saying, 2024 isn’t 2020. In fact the percentage of the electorate that hates both candidates could be at an all time high in 2024, as high as 21% according to the June CNN poll.
The Grandpa Joe schtick is wearing off and people are seeing through the mirage. /3
The reality was that courts refused to actually hear cases for technical reasons based on standing and timing. None of them assessed the actual merits.
Trump’s desire to send the question back to the legislatures FOR THEM TO DETERMINE, was both reasonable and legally possible./1
The Special Counsel is attempting to turn a President’s right to lobby Congress into a crime.
Trump never forced Pence or any Congressperson or Senator to do anything.
He lobbied them. A completely legal endeavor. /2
Imagine going back into each interaction a company has with Congress to determine if any of the claims were considered false at the time they were used to lobby for beneficial outcomes and indicting.
That’s not our system. We leave the evaluation to the legislature. /3