Trump decided months before the election to declare victory if he lost, says former campaign manager

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The bipartisan select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack against the U.S. Capitol held what was likely to be its last public hearing on Thursday.

During Thursday’s hearing, the committee summarized many of its findings, including video of testimony provided to the bipartisan committee by several Republicans and former White House personnel, going on to air new video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other members of congressional leadership trying to summon a military and law-enforcement response as pro-Trump rioters entered the Capitol complex.

One person whose testimony the committee shared portions of early in Thursday’s proceeding was former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.

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“President Trump planned as early as July that he would say he won the election, even if he lost,” California Democrat Zoe Lofgren said during the hearing, citing testimony from Parscale.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-decided-months-before-the-election-to-declare-victory-if-he-lost-says-his-former-campaign-manager-11665686606

[Mike_in_LA]

1. I remember this coming up publicly in August 2020.

That's about the time when he was doing the "We'll see" responses to the media when they would ask him if he would acknowledge and concede if he lost. And even before that, there were plenty of trial balloons, which is what caused the media to begin questioning him directly in the first place.

This was ALWAYS the plan.

[EarlG]

2. Trump was saying as early as 2016 that he wouldn't accept election results

October 19, 2016:

Trump Won't Say He'll Accept Election Results: 'I Will Keep You In Suspense'

Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to say that he would accept the results of the election, saying he will keep the country “in suspense” in what would be an unprecedented step that threatens the legitimacy of the U.S. electoral system.

“I will look at it at the time. I'm not looking at anything now,” he said when asked point blank if he would absolutely accept the results on Election Day, which is less than three weeks away.

For weeks now, Trump has suggested the election could be “rigged” against him without providing evidence to back up the claim. His vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, and daughter Ivanka Trump have in recent days said they would accept the results. But the Republican nominee seemed to undercut all that with his answer during the third presidential debate, saying he will keep voters “in suspense.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-won-t-say-he-ll-accept-election-results-i-n669801

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Good Grief! He still thinks he's on a TV show and wants viewers to "stay tuned..."

[GenXer47]

3. Brad Parscale getting tackled

...is still one of my favorite moments of the past 6 years:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/09/28/brad-parscale-tackled-police-video.html

[GreenWave]

4. Despite purging latino and afro-american sounding names by the hundreds of thousands

in some regions, the mofu still lost.

He lost over 60 court cases.

It is way past due to issue the gag order.