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In reply to the discussion: Don Winslow: Dear media, Trump wanting the magnetometers removed is the lead. Not the ketchup. [View all]Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)27. Well glad you said that. I was having trouble trying to understand why he's so desperately wanted
To go down there. First thing that came to my mind was that it actually helped him, because why would you want to go down there if he knew there was danger? Then I thought well maybe his plan was to go down there and stop the crowd in which he would have looked like an angel.
I definitely points back to his deep need to be idolized. And what you are suggesting makes sense too.
By the way, how did he know that the crowd wouldn't hurt him.
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Don Winslow: Dear media, Trump wanting the magnetometers removed is the lead. Not the ketchup. [View all]
highplainsdem
Jun 2022
OP
He loves his cult, in part, for the way they share his delusional, inflated view of himself.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2022
#62
Also, I think the fact that he tried to strangle his security guy is worse than lunging at the whee
yardwork
Jun 2022
#40
Oh ya... Like a baby in a high chair. Off topic but have to say just saw Jamie Raskin
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2022
#31
Trump wanted more violence and bloodshed so he could declare martial law and then suspend ...
Botany
Jun 2022
#7
Hey if the republicans want to run showing their support of Trump this fall let 'em.
Botany
Jun 2022
#11
I'm SO GLAD that, for lack of a better term, "our side" decided to sit that one out.
catbyte
Jun 2022
#19
Well glad you said that. I was having trouble trying to understand why he's so desperately wanted
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2022
#27
Biden would have hit him with Article 25 and been President until Obama came back to reality. nt
TigressDem
Jun 2022
#56
And he hoped for more violence and death. Lock him up. We can't have a repeat.
Evolve Dammit
Jun 2022
#28
Lock him up. In stocks so we can throw tomatoes and PIES at him.... his phobia!!!
TigressDem
Jun 2022
#57
While I like that idea a lot I'm thinking his more primal fear: shark tank.
Evolve Dammit
Jun 2022
#79
Trump wanted to march in with his armed goons and take the Capitol with force of arms.
Ford_Prefect
Jun 2022
#53