“This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup.” Trump is doing what Trump does, which is setting the stage for another extended “Stop The Steal” claim. Via the Washington Post:
Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in this year’s election are reminiscent of the tactics he used in the 2020 campaign and indicate how he could again seek to delegitimize the results if he loses, setting the stage for another combustible fight over the presidency, election and national security experts said.
“This is Donald Trump’s playbook: ‘There’s a deep state, they’re all out to get me,’” said Elizabeth Neumann, who served as a senior Department of Homeland Security official during the Trump administration and is now among his conservative critics. “Even here — as he’s going to have to face a stronger, harder candidate to defeat — his default is, ‘Well, this couldn’t possibly be legal. This is a coup. This is wrong,’ even though there are no facts to back that up.”
[…] Trump has long insisted that his political failures are the result of some malevolent force trying to keep him out of power, and he has weakened faith in the U.S. election system despite widespread evidence that the results can be trusted. When asked to comment for this article, Trump’s campaign responded with a statement attacking Harris and again characterizing her nomination as part of a “coup.”
Jim Acosta — “Enough with this stop the steal nonsense. If you win, great. If you lose, please move on. No more whining, no more sore losers, no more lies. Just stop the squeal.”pic.twitter.com/qDeGEL2eXi
— MuslimMarine (@mansoortshams) November 8, 2021
The GOP is trying to steal the 2024 election through voter purges and voter suppression—and legacy media is asleep at the wheel.
Here’s how the GOP is doing it, and what we need to do to stop fascism in America.https://t.co/EuB84TExW9
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) August 15, 2024
When you “stop the steal” that wasn’t happening and then try to “steal it back” in real time when nothing was stolen, it means that YOU WERE THE ONES STEALING THE ELECTION ALL ALONG.
#GOPCoup pic.twitter.com/hUq66cltEl— Saint Brian The Godless (@AWorldOutOfMind) January 12, 2022
Just a reminder: Roger Stone bought the URL www.stopthesteal.com back in 2016 and made his plans.
