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TomCADem

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Thu Oct 8, 2020, 10:34 AM Oct 2020

Vox: Trump just did his first TV interview since his coronavirus diagnosis. It did not go well. [View all]

At this point, Trump is not trying to win an election. Rather, he just wants to whip his supporters up to try to prevent people from voting and oppose a peaceful transfer of power. If people can conveniently vote without impediments, Biden/Harris will win. However, Trump knows this, which is why they are going to try to stop people from voting and hope that they can hold on to the Senate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-just-did-his-first-tv-interview-since-his-coronavirus-diagnosis-it-did-not-go-well/ar-BB19PHh8?li=BB141NW3

One day after President Donald Trump posted a video on his Twitter account that raised more questions about his health than it answered, he called into Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show for his first live interview since he announced his positive test for the coronavirus nearly a week ago.

Trump sounded hoarse, but ultimately the interview will likely raise more questions about his mental than physical health. That’s because over the course of an hour, Trump made comments that were nonsensical — even by his standards — about a variety of topics, including the coronavirus and how he possibly got it, and his desire that his political rivals be prosecuted for unspecified crimes just weeks out from the election.

The interview began with Trump announcing, “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate” and that he will pull out of next week’s scheduled second debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which is to be held remotely because of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.

Trump clearly wanted people to believe that his reasons for doing so are about his objections to the format, but the rest of his public therapy session with Bartiromo suggested his team might also have concerns about the debate turning out to be even more of a debacle than the widely panned performance at the first debate last week.
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