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On 6/12/2020 at 6:11 AM, TopDeadSenter said:

Democrats, who refused to honor their loss of the 2016 election, worry the Republicans will not honor the result of the 2020 election? Seriously, can this get any more farcical?

I'd guess he's just referring to the known fact that he already tried to cheat with Ukraine to get them to make up a scandal about Biden that didn't exist to help himself. And according to lifelong Republican and former staffer John Bolton that is just the tip of the iceberg that he is aware of multiple other cases where Trump tried to do the same thing with other countries.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/john-bolton-book-trump-315086
 

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Bolton writes that the House should have broadened its impeachment inquiry to other areas of his foreign policy, contending that he can document — and identify witnesses to — "Ukraine-like transgressions ... across the full range of his foreign policy," according to a description by Simon & Schuster released Friday. 

So it isn't really a question that Trump will try to cheat. He's been trying already. 

His speech told you everything you need to know about him. After refusing to give public statements and hiding in a bunker he gasses peaceful protestors, has rubber bullets shot into the crowd, then gives a speech where he promises to "dominate" the streets. Then he walks to a church for a photo op. This guy is not a leader. He's a wannabe authoritarian.

It seemed pretty obvious to me that he was lying when he said it. And given his doctor never said in his statement that Trump took them or he prescribed them explicitly I think that's a pretty clear indication that he was trying to back up Trump without lying himself. Just another tall tale from Trump.

On 5/1/2020 at 7:48 AM, unamazedloso said:

from the comments people seem more prone to bitch about trump likenits some personal vendetta these people have than take the commie chinese threat seriously. Have these people been living under a shell? Wake up!! Atleast Trumps trying to come up with ways in which the world can stop funding their own demise. 

China is a bad player. You won't get an argument from me against that. The problem here is that the tariffs don't hurt China. They hurt Americans. They are paid for by America. And then to save the American industries affected by these self-inflicted wounds we pump billions into them to prop them back up. They are ineffective. Always have been.

How the heck do they get to a 73k death estimate when there's already at 61.7k and still killing 14k a week.

11 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Yeah we all know there's no tragedy too big for a Democrat to exploit. 

They aren't the ones taking a 2 hour a day prime time spot and using it as a campaign rally on national TV every night... 

According to a Washington Post article from two days ago (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/13-hours-of-trump-the-president-fills-briefings-with-attacks-and-boasts-but-little-empathy/2020/04/25/7eec5ab0-8590-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html )

Trump had spent 13 hours in those briefings... More than two of those hours were spent attacking others. More than 45 minutes were spent praising himself and his administration... and a mere 4 1/2 minutes spent expressing condolences to corona virus victims... But yeah it's the democrats exploiting the tragedy... 

5 hours ago, Zillod said:

Leftist pearl clutchers everything anti trump, but if they were in ICU .. Gimme the hydroxychloraquine!  Always total hypocrites

Talk about a straw man... For one, I think most people if they are really sick and in ICU are going to take the doctor's advice on what to do. Here's the problem, very few doctor's would have recommended this drug. That isn't to say they thought it was bad, but it certainly needed testing. What Trump does is dangerous in that he goes out and tells people otherwise based on a hunch... and then he wouldn't even allow Fauci to answer a question about it from the media a couple of weeks ago he butted in. His whole, "what do you have to lose?" While touting this drug repeatedly seemed highly suspicious. 

I'm sure everyone would like there to be a valid cure at this point. And there are many candidates for that on the market, all which need testing. The problem here is that all of them need the trials to see if they are safe, and if they have positive results. Trump just picked one drug (which is what makes it so suspicious) and latched onto it as the cure and started suggesting that people should take it. And the even larger problem of this is that the drug he picked can be dangerous. 

12 hours ago, Matzzon said:

That´s mostly how it goes when a hotelier takes out the sword and dub himself as a virologist.

Unfortunately his minions will either believe or pretend to believe everything he says and tout it as truth. It's what makes him so dangerous. He's clueless about most topics, but still strongly opinionated with an often radical viewpoint on everything. 

Trump attacks and attempts to remove all oversight of himself... While openly and actively encouraging investigation to all of his rivals... Which often end in the people appointed to investigate them by his own administration finding no wrongdoing. No matter what you think of Trump and his ideals, everyone should be subject to oversight. His administration should hand over documents when they are requested to provide them. As is Trump has stalled, attacked, fired, and lied when subjected to any type of oversight. And that is not okay. It wouldn't be okay if it were being done on the opposite side either.

@JDGRUEN: On March 9th, the same day that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson tested positive for it, and the same day the NBA suspended their season Trump was still downplaying it and comparing it to the flu. And putting Mike Pence in charge of it was more of a way of removing the responsibility from himself and trying to look like he was doing something than anything else. Pence is not a health care specialist, he has no medical background. 

The reality is that Trump's efforts to downplay the virus extended to Fox News, and extended to his base. To the point that they were on social media ridiculing it, and repeating the same claims. It wasn't until it really started hitting the fan and Tucker Carlson of all people started calling out guys like Hannity that they started to take it seriously. That starts at the top. From Trump's need to downplay the virus while now trying to pretend that he always took it seriously.