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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (4069)	8/4/2016 2:21:48 PM
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Challenges, recounts and outrage: Trump is already laying groundwork to fight “stolen” election Preparing to lose and mine as much attention as possible from it. He won't go away after he loses. Posted on August 4, 2016 by everybodylovestrump Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Eric Thayer) One of the informal norms of American presidential elections has long been that after the concession speech, the loser disappears for a while. Maybe, like John Kerry and John McCain, he goes back to work in the Senate. Or, like Bob Dole, he retires to a life of hawking Viagra and filming Pepsi commercials with Britney Spears. Whatever he does next, the smooth exit from the public eye and the peaceful installation of the new president are necessary reminders after a contentious election that America is a stable and functioning democracy. Does anyone foresee Donald Trump gracefully exiting the stage if he loses on Nov. 8? Can you imagine him accepting the judgment of an exhausted nation that Hillary Clinton should be its next president, then ascending in the Trump Tower elevator back to his life of tanning sessions and filing for bankruptcy? Of course not. And if current polls are accurate and the trends continue, his only chance is to get close enough to Clinton that he can plausibly claim that someone hacked a few voting machines or stuffed a few ballot boxes. Which is why he’s laying the groundwork for legal challenges now with talk of a rigged election and voter fraud that will see Democrats somehow casting ten votes apiece for Clinton, among other nefarious schemes. If this kind of talk keeps his base riled up for the next three months, he can spend all of November and beyond complaining on Fox News and anywhere else that will listen that the election was “stolen” from him. [ Fox News 2018: Greta, Bolling, Hannity compete to see who gets to interview the great man that night. ] Well, Greta, you need to show strength. If I were in office, I'd show strength. That jihadi massacre in Dusseldorf. It never would have happened if I were in office. Cause I'd be strong. Beleive me. Strong like you never saw before. ] Just last week that Trump claimed the Republican primaries had been rigged against him, but he won by such huge margins anyway that the GOP couldn’t deny him the nomination. So it is hard to assume this is his usual off-the-cuff babbling. In this case, he knows what he’s saying. ........... Can’t you just imagine Trump in front of a bank of microphones on Nov. 9, spinning dark conspiratorial tales about “lots of people” telling him stories of undocumented Hispanics casting multiple votes for the Democratic candidate in some Miami precinct, or claiming “everybody knows” Baoky Vu once donated to the Clinton Foundation? Can’t you just imagine him yelling that “Crooked Hillary” stole the election from him, even if he loses by huge margins? There is really nothing to stop him from making life miserable for everyone after that. The Republican Party will have no ability to rein him in, no one who can convince him that the election was on the up-and-up and he should call off his lawyers. The party’s leaders might want to concede the election and move on to drawing up their strategy of obstructing Clinton’s agenda in Congress and writing up the post-2016 autopsy. (Which will be hilarious.) But Trump has not listened to Reince Priebus et al. on anything for the last year. He’s not going to start now. ........