Trump: Whiny Loser or Mad Genius?

[snoopdoggie]

I wonder how much money Trump made with all these last minute pardons and commutations. Well, at least his presidency is finally over. What a horrible 4 years that was! And he's going out not with a bang but with a whimper.

Ha. That was Pierre Trudeau's words about Quebec leaving the country.

 

[Magicmon]

Now bets on whether Mitch will turn on Trump and prevent him from ever entering politics again. This would also take a lot of the benefits he has too.

 

[Blue.eyes.white.dragon]

Yes Trump did eventually ask his insurrectionists to go home peacefully that same day well after the fact, but he never condemned the rioters that day at all, which is really remarkable and telling given everything that happened. Apparently Republican House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy had a screaming match with Trump while it was all happening to do something more during the crisis than Tweet. Some of the things Trump DID say that same day it all happened included the following:

These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been so badly & unfairly treated for so long…. remember this day forever.... I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side... It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us. From me, from you, from our country. We love you, you’re very special. We’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know you how feel.

It's easy to say after the fact these were obviously just a bunch of dead end revolutionary wannabe cosplay yahoos, but amongst the rabble of white supremacists and anti-Semites were militia members, weapons and guys dressed in paramilitary gear and carrying zip ties. Who is to say if the mob had come across Nancy Pelosi or even Mike Pence what would have happened to them?

Why are we down playing this. They were going to murder those politicians. They were terrorist end of story.

 

[Sybarite]

Why are we down playing this. They were going to murder those politicians. They were terrorist end of story.

No doubt it could have been a really bad scene if the mob chanting "hang Mike Pence" encountered him in person.

Apparently they came incredibly close to doing so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-rioters-capitol-attack/2021/01/15/ab62e434-567c-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html