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Zorro

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Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:29 AM Aug 2025

Fuming Trump Lashes Out at Republican Ditching the GOP in Late-Night Tantrum

The one-time Republican lieutenant governor announced he’s become a Democrat.

President Donald Trump ripped into a Georgia lawmaker who changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, calling him a “total loser” in a late-night social media tirade.

After serving as Georgia’s lieutenant governor from 2019 to 2023 as a Republican, Geoff Duncan announced this week that he is switching parties and is now a Democrat.

“Failed former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, of Georgia, is a total loser. Was never able to get anything done, all he ever did was complain,” Trump wrote at about 1 a.m. Friday in a Truth Social post. “We didn’t want him in the Republican Party any longer, so I’m told he became a Democrat. Good riddance Geoff. You don’t even have a chance!!!”

The former Georgia state representative has been a sharp critic of the president since 2020, when Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican leaders to overturn former President Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

“Donald Trump has been running a Ponzi scheme of propaganda for the better part of a decade and it’s finally catching up to him,” Duncan told the Daily Beast in a statement. “Like most Ponzi schemes, they collapse under their own weight and this situation will be no different.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-lashes-out-at-republican-ditching-the-gop-in-late-night-tantrum/
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Fuming Trump Lashes Out at Republican Ditching the GOP in Late-Night Tantrum (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2025 OP
Quoting Han Solo (you didnt expect that on a Friday did you) RT Atlanta Aug 2025 #1
"A ponzi scheme of propaganda" rampartd Aug 2025 #2
When when when? lame54 Aug 2025 #3

RT Atlanta

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1. Quoting Han Solo (you didnt expect that on a Friday did you)
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 2025

"I must've hit pretty close to the mark to get 'em all riled up like that." [re Duncan's shift from the dark side to the good guys' team]

Glad donnie was up at 1am with the night sweats and this party switch was on his mind and not something more pressing........

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