Rachel's new theory: Trump didn't want to win the 2020 election legitimately

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He wanted to lose at the polls so he could execute a coup afterward and destroy our democracy. She said it on one of the J6 discussions.

No link, one would be appreciated if someone sees a video or transcript.

[pwb]

1. Trump lost big time and is vengeful.

His money couldn't save him for once. He wanted to win. ??????

[Walleye]

2. I think watching the insurrection gave Trump a higher high than he has ever had

So now he will spend the rest of his life trying to get that high again. Seeing all that violence committed for his sake, it was the best day of his life

[bahboo]

3. sounds like a Bannon idea....

[milestogo]

4. Sounds like a Putin idea

[SergeStorms]

7. Bingo.

nt

[Irish_Dem]

5. The GOP wants permanent power so this theory is quite plausible.

[Mme. Defarge]

6. Hard to believe that he would EVER wanted to be seen

as a loser.

[tanyev]

8. Makes sense, but he would have worked on destroying democracy

even with a legitimate win.

[Solomon]

14. Exactly. That's why this theory doesn't work for me.

I think he planned on staying past his SECOND term.

[usonian]

9. TFG has never had an original idea except "GIMME"

Posters are right. Bannon and company are his "brain" trust.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. He Wanted To Win

The coup was plan B. A contingency plan.
They thought they rigged the election so another PV loss but EV win was in the bag.
Plan B was in the "unlikely" event they lost.
TFG & the enablers really didn't understand how many people viscerally disliked TFG.
So, voter turnout blew away Plan A.
I don't think anybody in that crowd was strategic enough to have the coup as Plan A.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Given that he's never "won" anything in his life legitimately...

I'm not surprised that he was fully on board with cheating and stealing the election in any way possible. It's what he does: lie, cheat, and steal and then whine about being suppressed and treated "unfairly."

Just trump being trump.

[Novara]

12. Well, he cheated in 2016 ...

... and expected it to work this time too. But he didn't count on millions of un-hackable paper ballots.

2020 was likely the most legitimate election we've had in decades.

[Tom Rinaldo]

13. My memory differs a little

I think she at least implied that he was afraid in advance that he would lose the election based on legitimate votes and therefor came up with an alternate strategy to thoroughly discredit the election before vote counting even began. It's not that he didn't want to win a legitimate election, he just knew that he likely would lose one. Anyone looking at polls could see that his reelection bid was in trouble. So he began to make claims early and often that the process was rigged against him, including his effort to discredit mail in voting, in advance. as ripe for fraud.

[Solomon]

15. But this is what we were saying all along as he was doing it.

There's nothing new about this so called "theory".