Fun
Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

You Can't Make This Up! (Or Can You...?)

Trump, who himself could face jail time after being found guilty of 34 felony counts on Thursday, brushed off a recounting of his campaign trail attacks against Clinton during a “Fox & Friends” interview.

“You famously said, regarding Hillary Clinton, ‘Lock her up.’ You declined to do that as president,” Fox News’s Will Cain said to the former president.

“I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people said ‘lock her up, lock her up,’” Trump continued. “Then, we won. And I say — and I said pretty openly, I said, all right, come on, just relax, let’s go, we’ve got to make our country great.”
Northwest · M
During campaign rallies in 2016, Trump sometimes paused his remarks as his supporters engaged in chants of “lock her up,” giving the chants time to continue. On other occasions, he explicitly repeated those words himself.

“For what she’s done, they should lock her up,” Trump said after the crowd chanted “lock her up” at an October 2016 rally in North Carolina.

“‘Lock her up’ is right,” he said at an October 2016 rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump also explicitly called for Clinton’s imprisonment using different phrasing.

“Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” he said in a June 2016 speech in California. “She has to go to jail,” he repeated in an October 2016 speech in Florida. And at a presidential debate in October 2016, after Clinton said, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail.”

All of it was designed to bolster his claim, and I quote: that a candidate under federal investigation "has no right to be running" and that it would be "virtually impossible" for a president under indictment to govern.

And the soft pitch Fox "interview" also glosses over the fact that he did not decline to prosecute her, it's that they failed to come up with a single indictable incident.
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
@Northwest Why do we even bother? Nothing he ever says has a grain of truth to it.
Vin53 · M
He's literally unable to be truthful. Ever.
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
They don’t care. @Vin53
Trump explaining why candidates under felony investigation shouldn't be running:

“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump said at the rally. “It would grind government to a halt.”
“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” he said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.”
“She has no right to be running, you know that,”
-- Donald Trump, Nov 3 2016, North Carolina rally

QuietChaos · 56-60, M
Strong words! @ElwoodBlues
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
... and then he made it a laughingstock around the world.
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
Only Putin was laughing. @MarkPaul
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@QuietChaos ... and Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, and many, many others.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Both candidates are the worst example anything remotely political at the moment.

One can't remember his past and the other can't fluently converse in the present.

Expect nothing good to come from this election
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
Well, let’s see how it all shakes down. I mean out. @Picklebobble2
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@QuietChaos I mean seriously.
What's the best America can hope for given everything that's going on both at home or in the wider world ?
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
@Picklebobble2 Oh, I don’t know, Biden is reelected because it occurs to enough deeper thinkers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that maybe Trump isn’t honest or in any way a public servant?

Then the economy continues to flourish and we see the US pull itself further away from the international embarrassment of 2016? Country folk get to keep their guns (not convicted felons of course, but the regular good ol’ boys), Christians get to keep Christmas, and eventually enough citizens get on board with addressing climate?

Then, as Trump continues to carry on like a big, fat tool, some folks say to themselves, “There’s got to be more to life than reality TV and inane chanting,” and devote themselves to reading shit a little deeper than the National Enquirer. Some learn that Trump has been lying to them and, in fact, stealing from them all along and even realize that ghouls like Bobert and Hawley and Jordan shouldn’t be in any position of responsibility?

Is that asking too much? A better read, critical thinking, more compassionate populace?

(For now I’d just settle for Trump on the iceberg.)
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
Well she did pay for the phony russia gate and she willfully mishandled classified dox
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
Lighten up, MP. Patriot’s got challenges we can’t begin to understand. @MarkPaul
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@QuietChaos Oh... you mean he's corrupt?
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
Patriot? No idea.

Trump? Well, how much time have you got?
@MarkPaul
Legal Eagle just dropped a video on why exactly Trump was found guilty and the opening line is just perfect: "Yes, Trump finally won a popular vote." 😂

[media=https://youtu.be/KnapsSRptqg]
This message was deleted by the author of the main post.
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
She's still guilty. Nobody faces consequences for US aggression.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5119492/user-clip-trump-saying-lock-up
@LordShadowfire And a different occasion, Trump saying "Lock 'em all up"

[media=https://youtu.be/1Z70ReLhMgU]
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
QuietChaos · 56-60, M
They don't care. They don't know and they don't care.
@anythingoes477
This comment is hidden. Show Comment

 
Post Comment