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''A party or a sect?''
''The email was signed by Donald Trump. Millions of his supporters received it the day after the press conference in which viewers and internet users saw Rudolph Giuliani's hair dye liquefy with what remained of his reputation.''
“Did you watch my legal team's press conference yesterday? They were SPECTACULAR. Rudy Giuliani is absolutely right. I was way ahead of Joe Biden on election night, and yet, when we woke up the next morning, I was behind schedule. How is it possible ?''
Sent by Donald Trump's campaign team, the email solicited donations, highlighting the efforts of the president's legal team to challenge the November 3 election results. Since November 4, supporters of Donald Trump have been receiving up to 30 such messages per day. But there is a catch...
As of last Friday, we can read in fine print at the end of these mailings that 75% of the amount of each donation will go to Save America, a Political Action Committee (PAC) headed by Donald Trump (at first it was "only'' 60%). The PAC could be used to fund the political activities of the 45th president after his departure from the White House or even to assume personal expenses...
It smells like a scam. Several critics of Donald Trump are also convinced that his legal battles, until now futile and derisory, are for him only a pretext to extract money from his supporters.
But the explanation seems insufficient in view of the possible consequences of these actions which aim to invalidate millions of votes and reverse the election results in key states. One of these consequences would be the transformation of a large political party into a conspiratorial and denialist sect.
Donald Trump's penchant for conspiracy theories is well established. He owes much of his rise in the Republican Party to his promotion of the racist “birthers” thesis that Barack Obama was an illegitimate president because of his birth in Kenya or some other foreign country.
And he is now trying to deny the reality of the November 3 results by adopting a conspiracy theory involving the Dominion electoral software, which would have erased millions of votes intended for him, or which would have reassigned them to Joe. Biden. Sidney Powell, an alleged member of his legal team, almost stole the show from Rudolph Giuliani the other day by implicating former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, financier George Soros and the Clinton Foundation in the plot.
The former federal prosecutor gave a layer on Saturday night saying that Republican Gov. of Georgia, Brian Kemp, had been bribed in connection with the plot.
"Georgia is probably the first state I'm going to blow up," she said, promising to file a "biblical" lawsuit against the Peach State.
Sidney Powell, whose Trump side broke up on Sunday night, made the statement on Newsmax TV, one of the favorite channels for November 3 deniers and conspirators (along with OAN) since Fox News began questioning certain statements. of Donald Trump and his allies.
Two days earlier, the 65-year-old lawyer had refused an invitation from Tucker Carlson, star host of Fox News, to present his "evidence" on his show. “What Powell described would amount to the greatest crime in American history,” Carlson commented incredulously. “Millions of votes stolen in one day. Democracy destroyed. The end of our age-old system of government. "
(...) what about the future of a party that seems to want to merge with the QAnon conspiracy movement in the twilight of Donald Trump's presidency? Conservative commentator Kevin Williamson is worried about what he sees and hears, as evidenced by the questions he himself raised last week in a post on the National Review magazine site .
“One of those questions is, how long are we going to keep pretending this madness is not madness?
Another question: How long are we going to keep pretending that what is broadcast by Fox News and talk radio shows is political commentary rather than some most disgraceful, irresponsible and unpatriotic type of for-profit propaganda?
Third, what exactly is the benefit - for our ideas and for the country - of making common cause with these madmen and profiteers? "
These questions could guide the debates that will animate the Republican Party, or what will remain of it, after the presidency of Donald Trump. In the meantime, nothing says that the president and his followers will not try to banish those who challenge their version of the truth, as happens in sects. Will they be successful?
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- Not a cult I mean sect_niko
- I pointed this out weeks ago, when he lost the election for the first time. His supporters will pay his campaign debts, and his legal fees, as his final scam.monospaced
- His stupid ass followers are literally paying to ensure he loses a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and probably a 7th and 8th time before the year ends. Funny sad fucks.monospaced
- I figure he's trying to scrounge cash to pay off his personal loans.Continuity