Trump said he could kill and win - Covid and cheating may prove it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/11/donald-trump-fifth-avenue-shoot-covid-election
Trump said he could kill and win Covid and cheating may prove it
He said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose votes. Now 210,000 are dead and hes scheming to keep power
Sun 11 Oct 2020 06.00 BST
Icould stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldnt lose voters, Donald Trump boasted in 2016. He thought his almost unlimited bravado, bombast and dominance of any situation allowed him to get away with figurative murder.
Since then, the presidents Fifth Avenue principle has been repeatedly tested most notably by the Access Hollywood tape, Robert Muellers findings that Trump obstructed justice and his campaign aides cooperated with Russia, overt racism, quid pro quo to the president of Ukraine, and impeachment yet some 40% of American voters have stuck by him notwithstanding.
Thats all hes needed. And for reasons Ill explain in a moment, hes counting on them to preserve his presidency after 3 November.
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But the most egregious test of Trumps Fifth Avenue principle is still to come. He is counting on his supporters to keep him in power even after he loses the popular vote.
Hes ready to claim that mail-in ballots, made necessary by the pandemic, are rife with fraud like youve never seen, as he alleged during his debate with Biden although its been shown that Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning than commit voter fraud.
With such allegations hell probably dispute election results in any Republican-led state which he loses by a small margin, such as Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin.
Then hell rely on the House of Representatives to put him over the top.
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