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The former president made multiple chilling warnings during an interview with Time magazine.

Donald Trump hasn’t quite let go of the possibility of utilizing mob violence if he loses the next election.

In a sprawling interview for Time magazine, Trump hinted that leveraging political violence to achieve his end goals was still on the table.

“If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he told Time. “It always depends on the fairness of the election.”

And from Trump’s perspective, that’s winning rhetoric. According to him, his incendiary comments supporting a mob mentality, his early warnings of forthcoming abuses of power, and his threats to be a dictator on “day one” are only inching him closer to the White House. “I think a lot of people like it,” Trump told Time.

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How many more Babbits will trump create when he can't tell the capital police to stand down? Or even, how many of his idiot followers are even going to show up when they got fucked and abandoned last time?

You're a pathetic weakling Donnie, go sit the fuck down and pout to a judge.

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine dying for a billionaire because he lost a popularity contest.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago

I think the best (and a frustrating) part is that he hasn't won the popular vote once

God damn we need to get rid of the electoral college

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have no sympathy for Babbitt. Suicide by cop as far as him concerned

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only story there is they got so far in before any of them were shot. She was crawling through the final barrier between the mob of insurrectionists and members of Congress and still given plenty of opportunity to cut that out.

Insurrectionists were basically allowed to run free smearing feces on the walls until there was no other option to prevent them from murdering representatives. If all cops would show that much restraint that would be rad as fuck. I guess not every protest has their off-duty buddies in the crowd, though.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The idiots weren't even smart about it. They had access to congress offices, at the very least they should have been grabbing every scrap of intel they could lay hands on and posting it online so we could see what our representatives are really up to. If you're going to commit treason at least make it valuable.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah! Too bad there is a huge difference between people who want truth and the government to be accountable (you) and people who want the government to be unaccountable but targeting groups they hate (them).

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

How many more Babbits will trump create when he can’t tell the capital police to stand down?

Enough Ashley Babbits and its less of a problem for conservatives than for the police.