"Former President Donald Trump backpedaled from praising a group of "highly respected" GOP auditors in Arizona after their audit of the state's election results confirmed that Joe Biden won the general election. Trump also released a misleading statement on Friday morning that said the audit found "significant and undeniable evidence of FRAUD!""
This multi-bankrupt orange bloated trust fund weirdo who had zero taste and no class was judging people groveling for a job. He clearly didnt know anything about actual business, just spoke in vagaries and had a total lack of shame or self awareness.
He was a joke, but his confidence was as absolute as it was unearned. Since you can't understand it, you stare at it hoping you do.
I'm grew up in the media market he so desperately wanted to be the center of. It was SO obvious and SUCH a joke. He was a clown.
Who could have thought his transparent and silly attempts to hijack page 6 to stroke his own ego would ALSO work for national news outlets? And that people saw the disaster unfold and thought THATS MY GUY.
Fucking wild.
Trump has been saying for months that the AZ audit would prove he won. then the media gets a draft of the final AZ report hours before it's to be released saying that AZ lost even more bigly
so now trump is complaining that the media is calling the results prematurely.... although that's what he's been doing for months.
TRUMP PRETENDS ARIZONA ELECTION AUDIT FINDINGS DIDN’T COMPLETELY EMBARRASS HIM
"Donald Trump made clear over the weekend that he still wants to force Republicans to pay a political cost for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results. “The people of Georgia must replace the RINOs [Republicans In Name Only] and weak Republicans who made it all possible,” Trump said at a rally in Georgia on Saturday, referring to his election loss. Trump called Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the Republican who refused to help him “find” enough votes, “incompetent and strange.” He also turned Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who he declared “a complete and total disaster on election integrity,” into a rally joke. The former president suggested he would have preferred Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ran in 2018, over the incumbent Republican. “Stacey, would you like to take his place?” said Trump, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It’s OK with me.”"
It’s not about shame or self reflection or empathy or anything a normal human being would factor in.
He is just continuing to push the narrative that repubs need to hear to overthrow democracy. It’s a long game and ppl keep missing it.
He is upset that he didn't get his way. He was raised in an environment that encouraged his antics and behavior. And being told "no" or "you are wrong" for the basically first time in his life (I count all the election shenanigans as one thing, so it might not be the "first time" if you consider different instance separately) and the fact that he isn't able to have enough money thrown at the problem to get his way is just so new to him. He simply doesn't know what to do because these tactics that have succeeded for him all his life are failing, and he has no sense of trying something new or thinking "ok, I didn't get what I want and I am not going to, so what do I do next?"
He’s not pretending. To the faithful, the “audit” findings didn’t embarrass him.
If you read the report, the Cyber Ninjas basically said “gosh, there are a lot of things we don’t really understand. Could be fraud, but maybe not! Someone should really look into that.”
Trump’s faithful supporters heard “could be fraud” and ran with it. They’re on Twitter blathering about deleted files (which weren’t deleted; they were archived and CN never subpoenaed the archives), bizarre scan images (which look bizarre because of how the files are stored, not because of something nefarious), duplicate ballots (not duplicate) and a dozen other things. Cyber Ninjas displayed a criminal lack of understanding of our elections system and the Trump faithful do not care because they also do not understand the elections system, and anything they don’t immediately understand MUST be fraud.
Don’t believe me? Go look at the Twitter accounts for Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ), Kari Lake (@KariLake), Karen Fann (@FannKFann) or Mark Finchem (@RealMarkFinchem).
These people are elected officials or are running for elected office. They are all amplifying lies about the findings of the audit. They might be stupid enough to believe that there was fraud, but I think it’s more insidious: they know that what they’re saying is based on a lie, but they don’t care because the lie personally benefits them and they won’t experience ANY repercussions whatsoever.
Exactly zero people were convinced that the election was safe and secure. We’re just more divided about the security of the election than before.
And Arizona was just the first. These audits are going to become more commonplace after every election until the ones running them and/or advocating for them are held accountable for their lies.
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