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Published 1 min ago on May 3, 2020
By Tom Boggioni
Appearing on MSNBCs AM JOY, a former supporter of Donald Trump looked back on the 2016 election and explained how he came to vote for the president laying a large part of the blame on Fox News personalities who pumped up the then-businessmans accomplishments while avoiding his numerous failures.
Speaking with host Joy Reid, Army veteran David Weissman said he learned much more about the president after the election than he did prior to voting but first he attempted to explain why rabid supporters of the president have taken to the streets to protest the pandemic lockdown.
A lot of this fear I mentioned about, a lot comes from propaganda from conservative networks downplaying the virus, Weissman offered. They dont think the virus isnt as serious as it really is and a lot of people do not believe in the numbers of the fatalities from the virus we have Trump even called it a hoax, he called it a hoax for a long time. He waited until 70 days to finally act on it. You see people like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, they were calling it a hoax. Thats why you have so many thinking that this is not as serious as it really is, why they have no problem going into public and protesting.
Asked how he came to vote for Trump and then turn on him, he explained, Well, I had a very interesting dialogue that pretty much changed my worldview with [comedian] Sara Silverman on Twitter. I learned a lot about values that liberals believe in, Democrats, even politicians like Obama and Hillary Clinton.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/ex-trump-fan-reveals-on-msnbc-how-he-was-duped-into-voting-for-the-president-in-2016/
Caliman73
(11,742 posts)When all of your news comes from one source and that source tells you that everything else is false or heavily skewed, your entire world view is going to be dependent on that source unless you can escape and open your mind to the shared reality.
rurallib
(62,433 posts)could not understand what he said changed him.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)that they did not want trump to be elected, but they voted for him because (1) he wasn't going to win anyway, and (2) they had become convinced in the final days of the campaign that Hillary was going to be indicted before she could take office.
He said these were both otherwise normal people who sincerely regretted their actions.
Now, somebody remind me again of now Comey was working to defeat trump?
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Good for him....maybe he was in the dark about background stuff on trump but he still had to look past the the "grab them" tape and comments made by candidate trump before casting that vote for trump...
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)It sounds like she patiently educated him, without beating him down with an argument. One step at a time. Good job, Sarah.
Karadeniz
(22,559 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,714 posts)He was not duped, he chose to not do due diligence.
From the escalator to the election there was more than enough reason to "check out" what liberals, conservatives, women and the world were truly saying of Trump.
Other than from willful ignorance, for a person to not have rejected Trump, would have required being in a coma, a cave, samadhi or self-selected isolation from facts, logic, ethics and morality.
Too many willfully chose to be dupes and we do not have the time to follow the Silverman path.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)EndlessWire
(6,555 posts)many who will admit they voted for Donnie Two Scoops.
I don't care how stupid they are anymore. They own this.
At least they can help correct the mistake of voting for this cretin by telling everyone about how stupid they were.
JI7
(89,260 posts)refusing to release his tax returns and show any proof of actually being a successful businessman ? how about his many bankruptcies.