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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 28, 2016, 02:16 PM Oct 2016

Facing potential loss, Trump expands the list of conspirators plotting against him

Donald Trump’s claim that the 2016 presidential election is “rigged” against him has become a central part of his closing argument to voters in the final days of the campaign, as the Republican nominee insists that a growing range of “corrupt” public institutions are to blame for his sharply narrowing path the White House.

As he heads into a potential loss on Nov. 8, Trump has expanded the scale and scope of his accusations to include Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, the media, establishment leaders from both parties and unidentified “global financial powers.”

“When the people who control the political power in our society can rig investigations like [Clinton’s] investigation was rigged, can rig polls, you see the phony polls, and rig the media, they can wield absolute power over your life, your economy and your country and benefit big-time by it,” Trump told a crowd this week in St. Augustine, Fla. “They control what you hear and what you don’t hear, what is covered, how it’s covered, even if it’s covered at all.”

The “power structure” he describes, according to a review of his speeches this week, includes banking institutions, the judiciary, media conglomerates, voting security experts, Democratic tricksters, scientific polling and also perhaps military leaders. He has also accused Clinton of meeting “with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty to enrich these global ­financial powers, her ­special-interest friends and her donors.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facing-potential-loss-trump-expands-the-list-of-conspirators-plotting-against-him/2016/10/27/7177c1ba-9ba8-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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Facing potential loss, Trump expands the list of conspirators plotting against him (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2016 OP
"Plot the destruction of US sovereignty" Cracklin Charlie Oct 2016 #1
How come real estate moguls never marybourg Oct 2016 #2

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