It was noted many years ago that Donald Trump is just like a rat in a grain silo, what he doesn’t eat, he fouls. Unfortunately, the grain silo that this gargantuan spray-tanned rodent has wandered into is none other than one labeled Free and Fair Elections, which has kept democracy well fed and in business for low these two and a half centuries.
Trump is fine with blowing it all up, just fine. That’s his mentality. If he loses a game, he doesn’t go on to play another one on another day. No, he flips the board over and sets fire to the table.
Trump’s reaction to the loss suffered by David Perdue is not a quiet one.
Trump blasts out article that claims Kemp’s 50 point victory in the Georgia GOP gubernatorial primary was due to voter fraud. 400,000 Mules? pic.twitter.com/2udbJiGxgX
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 31, 2022
At least 400,000 mules! Maybe a million!
Now here’s what it gets truly droll. You can’t see it from this image, but if you expand it, you’ll see that Trump cites to an article by none other than “political analyst” for Lindell TV, Emerald Robinson, she who was too extreme for Newsmax. You have to be pretty far out there to not make Newsmax’s bar of journalistic standards.
Robinson has a blog on SubStack. And the “logic” contained therein is exactly what would appeal to Trump.
Let’s begin with a basic truth that most of the corporate media continually ignore or obscure: President Trump’s endorsement is the single most powerful force in the universe of American politics. There’s never been anything quite like it. Trump-endorsed candidates overwhelmingly prevailed in the latest GOP primaries by a margin of 24-4. In fact, President Trump is running the table on the GOP establishment in the 2022 races. His record stands at 92-7 at the moment.
Robinson then quotes a Georgia poll of 736 likely Republican voters done in April, which predicted high marks for Jody Hice in particular. And this is taken as evidence of fraud.
She then goes on to say
On Primary Day in Georgia, Kemp gets 74% and Perdue gets 22%. Nobody in any election in America gets 74% of the votes. Ever. It doesn’t happen.
Obvious fraud.
Tell that to Walter Mondale or George McGovern. Just the memories of those campaign cause Democrats to awaken in the dead of night in cold sweats.
Meanwhile, make no mistake, interference with elections, i.e., fraud, is being discussed in the Peach State or Peach Tree Dish place, or whatever they call themselves nowadays.
Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn GA's 2020 election results has subpoenaed state AG Chris Carr, per @JMOCNN & @SaraMurray.
In Dec. 2020, Trump encouraged Carr not to rally R's against lawsuit filed w/ SCOTUS to toss votes from GA & other states.
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) May 31, 2022
The Carr subpoena was one of several issued to GA officials as part of the criminal probe.
CNN previously reported that half a dozen current & former officials in the GA Secretary of State’s office – including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – have also been subpoenaed.
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) May 31, 2022
Voting fraud is indeed on the slate of items to be discussed in Georgia nowadays, only just not the way Trump and his cult high priestess Robinson see it.
What a fucking tool.
He can’t imagine “his” people losing because voters don’t want them in office.
So of course that’d mean Herschel lost as well…..Hard to believe anyone is stupider than Bobo, Marjie Kooky Pants, or that “Kandiss” broad but there you have it.
Well, “logic” has never really been a, shall we say, strong point with that crowd. You can’t have one statewide election (Governor) be rigged when another statewide election (US Senator) goes your way. THAT is how “logic” works. But Trump and his crowd don’t seem to understand that.
IF Trump’s guys BOTH lost their statewide races–and by, I might note, similar margins–THEN he might have a case to cry “Fraud” (it still doesn’t actually mean “fraud”) but that’s really not how elections work.
And it was funny that Robinson would say that “nobody in any election get 74% of the votes” especially as Kemp actually won his 2018 run-off with 69.5% of the vote. (Oh. It should be noted that Trump supported Kemp during the run-off which must’ve really bolstered his numbers since he only got 25.5% in the first round.) Another fun factoid for Robinson’s consideration: Stacey Abrams, in her 2018 Democratic primary race, won with 76.4% of the vote.
Republiqanon logic:
On election fraud: “Them Dems didn’t vote the way we told hem to”.
On conspiracy to steal: “Them Dems went and picked election candidates and they had the nerve to actually vote for the people they wanted and not our choice”
SMFH.
Just have your heart attack,Fat Donnie. Please