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Shermann

(7,399 posts)
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 12:35 PM Sep 2020

Trump's Biggest Fear

It's obvious what it is. It's losing in a landslide with a clear winner being declared on or shortly after Election Day.

He hasn't stopped campaigning in four years. He got himself impeached on account of it. He may not be able to ward off the inevitable election loss, but it appears to be within his power to muddy the waters of the results.

So this is all one big hedge. If he loses, he just stirs up all this manufactured controversy over absentee voting and the like. He can stay in the MSM limelight and play the role of the people's underdog champion against the corrupt Deep State. Maybe he takes his movement underground, maybe he walks away with one finger in the air, maybe he refuses to leave. He switches from sore winner to sore loser, it all fits his modus operandi.

If he somehow wins, that will be the last we hear of the "rigged election". We'll get four more years of victory laps and high-fives to self.

But a clear victory by Biden that quickly extinguishes the worst ideology this country has seen in recent memory, that he can't abide.

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Trump's Biggest Fear (Original Post) Shermann Sep 2020 OP
Nobody likes a sore loser. C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #1
I think his bigger fear is ... GeorgeGist Sep 2020 #2
That is what is coming. malaise Sep 2020 #3
Even if he loses bigly ... IggleDuer Sep 2020 #4
K & R THIS ⬆️ Budi Sep 2020 #5
If he was to win, aka-chmeee Sep 2020 #6
He will claim he has a mandate to continue as he wants. lunatica Sep 2020 #12
Jail time! Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #7
I don't think he fears the justice system Shermann Sep 2020 #9
He is freaked out Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #10
he and his family should fear Riker's Island beachbumbob Sep 2020 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2020 #11

malaise

(268,698 posts)
3. That is what is coming.
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 12:41 PM
Sep 2020

Dems need to remind everyone that there are criminal consequences for stealing elections.
Don't see too many goons willing to go to prison for the killa Con aka shitshowman.

IggleDuer

(964 posts)
4. Even if he loses bigly ...
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 12:42 PM
Sep 2020

... he will say it was impossible to lose, since he knows that everybody loves him.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
5. K & R THIS ⬆️
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 12:46 PM
Sep 2020

When the results are all in & he loses by an historic landslide, every one of his narcisistic & sociopathic triggers will be on rapid fire. He will have to be sedated just to make it thru the following weeks.

We'll witness the serious mental break of a madman.

aka-chmeee

(1,132 posts)
6. If he was to win,
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 12:50 PM
Sep 2020

It would provide evidence that he was right for the first time in his term as president and the election was indeed rigged.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. He will claim he has a mandate to continue as he wants.
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 02:11 PM
Sep 2020

Although a win for Trump pretty much ends our Constitutional Democracy. He’ll be free to do whatever he wants.

Shermann

(7,399 posts)
9. I don't think he fears the justice system
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 01:38 PM
Sep 2020

He won in the "courts" once, why would he have any reason to think he couldn't prevail again?

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. He is freaked out
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 01:56 PM
Sep 2020

about New York coming for his Properties and you know if a Grand Jury has anything to say,bye bye Donnie.

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