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Trump Coronarally Becomes Humiliating Implosion
Donald Trump held a corona-rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina yesterday. The President criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for going to a hair salon in California against coronavirus restrictions, despite the fact he’s holding large campaign rallies now without social distancing, testing, or masks. Trump went on to say that he is the most unfairly treated president since Abraham Lincoln, showing off his insecurities and victim complex yet again. Trump also pretended as though he fulfilled his campaign promise of building a wall and predicted people will marvel at it a thousand years from now.
Trump also cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. He said that given the size of crowds he’s able to draw, if he loses, it must be rigged. Of course, crowd sizes don’t matter at all and can be illusive. The real test will be how Trump does on Election Day and he knows he has to try to suppress the vote in order to win.
Cohen: Trump Will Resign So Pence Can Pardon Him
Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen predicts that if Trump loses the election in November, he will resign during the lame duck period so that Mike Pence can take over and pardon him for his crimes. Cohen says this Nixon-like scenario was likely discussed between Trump and Roger Stone as a way to avoid any potential prison time. Certainly, Trump has committed crimes during his presidency and before that deserve the attention of prosecutors. Whether they would actually charge him with anything is a different story.
This ties into the bigger picture idea that regardless of who wins the election, the following weeks and months could be a very dark period in our nation’s history. People will take to the streets if they sense the election was rigged or if all of the votes weren’t counted. Trump could very well deny that he lost and try to stay in power. What we’ve seen from this president is that he will stop at nothing to further his own interests. If that means resigning early so that Pence can preemptively pardon him, Trump would be willing to do that.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump Actually NAILS Military-Industrial Complex
Donald Trump somehow came across an excellent point on Monday. The President appeared to recognize the problem with the military industrial complex. That is, that defense contractors who make the “big beautiful weapons” that Trump loves, always want more war so they can sell more of their products to the government. The problem is, even though Trump was able to identify this as a problem, he has exacerbated it. Trump has blown up the military budget and bragged about it repeatedly. He is working as a tool for the military industrial complex and has his whole presidency. It’s good Trump supposedly now recognizes it as a problem, but it’s just lip service.
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--Random Europeans and others around the world received Trump coronavirus stimulus checks that they did not qualify for
--This week's edition of Hatriot Mail
--Donald Trump is losing Ohio in a new right-leaning poll from Rasmussen
--Voicemail caller asks whether voting matters this election if you are voting in a very blue or very red state
--On the Bonus Show: Sturgis rally may have caused 250,000 coronavirus cases, FedEx deliveries also delayed recently, Tesla falls 21% in worst single-day loss ever, much more...
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Ashley Wilkesjust now
I find it appalling that you actually believe that our lunatic-in-chief suddenly had an epiphany that the military industrial complex’s primary agenda is to create and perpetuate wars. Donald Trump the Gaslighter. Let us count the ways. CENK and Ana we’re laughing at that claim and explained why it is so ridiculous. It was nice to have them confirm that it was just another assault on everyone’s sensibilities except for the 60 million morons who support him.