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A conservative writer has confirmed a report that former President Donald Trump is telling associates that he expects to be reinstalled as president this summer.

“The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling,” National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke wrote on the magazine’s website.

Cooke said “an array of different sources” confirmed a report earlier this week by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman, who said on Twitter that Trump has been sharing the popular new QAnon talking point.

But Cooke went even further, saying Trump not only believes he’ll be put back into the Oval Office but also that he will be gifted with a Republican majority in the Senate, believing that two Democrats will be booted from Congress and replaced by the GOP candidates they defeated.

He cautioned conservatives against downplaying or dismissing the report.

“This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter,” he wrote. “It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government.”

Trump, he wrote, is “so unmoored from the real world that it is hard to know where to begin in attempting to explain him.”

Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump, one of the former president’s three sons, mildly pushed back on the report on Fox News this week.

“As far as I know, there are no plans for Donald Trump to be in the White House in August,” she said on Fox News but allowed: “Maybe there’s something I don’t know.”

However, another close Trump ally claims it’s not only true... but that he’s the source of the idea.

“If Trump is saying August, that is probably because he heard me say it publicly,” MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told The Daily Beast.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/natio...b02df1ad8969fc

Originally Posted by bsnub

Donald Trump is telling associates that he expects to be reinstalled as president this summer.

Wonder how it’ll get the word out about a new (imaginary) inauguration date?

Morse Code? Carrier Pigeons? Smoke signals? CB Radio? Drumbeats?

I want to be awake for this one, to see the crowd that shows up. Half are behind bars now or unable to leave the neighborhood (court order).

Trump will address the North Carolina Republican Party today as a restart of his previous rallies. Rumors are that his main message is the stolen election with nothing on platform. Desperate men do desperate things so this should be entertaining.

Originally Posted by thailazer

Trump will address the North Carolina Republican Party today as a restart of his previous rallies. Rumors are that his main message is the stolen election with nothing on platform. Desperate men do desperate things so this should be entertaining.

Baldy's not stupid.

This will pour more cash from stupid trumpanzees into the baldy orange cunto family coffers.

More importantly it will take it away from Republican fundraising.

So a good thing then?

I predicted ages ago he'd do this. Grifter Trump.
Actually I predicted he'd charge an entrance fee as well. Let's see.

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

So a good thing then?

For him, yes.

^ I was thinking this is a good thing too, as it will indirectly benefit the democrats.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

More importantly it will take it away from Republican fundraising.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Wonder how it’ll get the word out about a new (imaginary) inauguration date?

subtle dress code

Made me laugh to read this title.

Trump Hits the Rubber Chicken Circuit, to the Tune of ‘Titanic’

If Donald Trump’s allies begged him not to mention being “reinstated” during his speech Saturday night to the party faithful in North Carolina, it worked.

Trump resisted the urge to riff about the notion (probably inspired by the MyPillow guy)—or about the recent buzz about him wanting to become Speaker of the House in 2023. If not vamping about such controversial craziness constitutes a “win,” the presidential loser was a winner Saturday by that standard. But that’s an awfully low bar. Trump still railed about the “2020 election hoax,” and otherwise turned in a less than inspiring performance.




If this was his midterm coming out party, he should probably go back in for a while.


It’s usually a bad omen when they play the theme song to Titanic before you come on stage, but that’s what happened in North Carolina on Saturday night. Then again, they had a lot of time to fill. Trump’s speech was originally slated to begin at 5:3o pm, according to the North Carolina Republican Party’s website. That seemed like a timeslot that was destined to move. It was then advertised by Trump’s team to begin at 7. Trump didn’t begin speaking until 8:05. Call it rude, but this is Trump’s M.O., and likely an intentional strategy to work his audience into a frenzy. Even after he was introduced, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” came on and Trump didn’t begin speaking until the full 3-plus minute song had ended.


If the goal was to increase the tension in the audience, Trump promptly wasted it. After throwing out some perfunctory red meat, (“Our country is being destroyed before our very eyes” by “The most radical left-wing” administration in history”), he then spent the next ten minutes recognizing elected officials and dignitaries in the crowd. Next, he brought up his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who is from North Carolina. Regarding talk about her ambitions to run for the U.S. Senate, she said "no for now, not no forever.” Trump then introduced Rep. Ted Budd, whom he endorsed for the seat (remember, this is a speech at a Republican convention, not a rally, and so Trump was playing favorites and meddling).


Once Trump finally began in earnest at about 8:25, things were pretty boring and recycled, including complaints about the Keystone XL pipeline, “catch and release” policing and “critical race theory”—you know, examples of how Biden is putting “America last.”


But Biden is hard to villainize, so Trump directed most of his rhetorical fire toward China. He revised his old routine by adding a nod to the “lab leak” theory, and—this is probably the “news” he broke—by saying the time had come to “demand reparations and accountability,” as “China must pay.” And he challenged the audience's cognitive dissonance, by taking credit for vaccines. “This would be an empty room right now,” Trump, whose campaign rallies in 2020 served as mass spreader events, if he had not pushed “for the vaccines to be developed and the FDA to improve them.”


There were some flashes of the old Trump, but the speech at the Greenville convention center lacked the excitement of some of his campaign rallies. In a mostly perfunctory performance, he ran through the usual litany of his term’s “accomplishments” (including “ending the forever wars”) and took the opportunity to air his grievances, ranging from broad (“the 2020 election hoax”) to narrow (Trump once again litigating how the media made a big deal out of his slow walk down a ramp at West Point, but not Biden stumbling down the stairs of Air Force One). It was mostly yawn-worthy. Has his schtick just become stale, or is he just rusty? This was, after all, a sort of post-presidency comeback (Trump also spoke at CPAC, back in February).


History is riddled with comebacks gone wrong—of once-great pugilists who should have hung up the gloves but came back for one more payday and more punishment. But getting back on the rubber chicken circuit is a little different than climbing in the ring. In this regard, public speaking is more akin to stand-up comedy, where getting on stage as often as possible is key for working out the kinks in a routine, and staying sharp.


This was the first of many speeches that will proceed the next time voters have a chance to cast their ballots. On January 5, Trump’s rally in Georgia had the effect of helping elect two Democrats and giving their party control of the U.S. Senate.


Just imagine what he can do in 2022 with this kind of head start.


Trump Hits the Rubber Chicken Circuit, to the Tune of ‘Titanic’

^^ Maybe he wears trousers with no fly and elastic in the waist, like a pair of joggers.

yeah, he didnt.

Donald Trump appears to wear pants backwards at a rally - here'''s what actually happened - 9Style

This idiot is "slicks" guy

Actually all those shots of backwards pants are so OBVIOUSLY photo shopped.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Actually all those shots of backwards pants are so OBVIOUSLY photo shopped.

That fact does not spoil the joy, does it? (if the same used for some other - please no names here - we would be outraged, it's in a bad taste...)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

if the same used for some other - please no names here - we would be outraged, it's in a bad taste...

Nah, if the name inserted is Putin, Xi, Kim . . . we'd all have a laugh

Pure insanity. It was for four years.

Pure insanity’: emails reveal Trump push to overturn election defeat
White House chief of staff pushed debunked conspiracy claims
House committee releases emails sent to justice department.
Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, instructed justice department officials at least five times to investigate false allegations of voter fraud.

Donald Trump tried to enlist top US law enforcement officials in a conspiracy-laden and doomed effort to overturn his election defeat, a campaign they described as “pure insanity”, newly released emails show.


The documents reveal Trump and his allies’ increasingly desperate efforts between December and early January to push bogus conspiracy theories and cling to power – and the struggle of bewildered justice department officials to resist them.


“These documents show that President Trump tried to corrupt our nation’s chief law enforcement agency in a brazen attempt to overturn an election that he lost,” said Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House of Representatives’ oversight committee, which released the emails on Tuesday.

At least five times, the documents show, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, instructed justice department officials to investigate false allegations of voter fraud, including a conspiracy theory called “Italygate”, which claims electoral data was changed from Europe by means including military satellites and with the knowledge of the CIA.

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Poor old Donald just hanging in there.

On 7 November 2020, after several days of vote-counting, Donald Trump lost the US presidential election. More than 60 unsuccessful lawsuits and one insurrection later, Trump has still lost the election, but the former president refuses to accept defeat.


Egged on by a group of sycophants and fantasists, including a small-time Pennsylvania politician, a host on a far-right news network, and the CEO of a pillow company, Trump now plans to hold rallies at the end of June where he is likely to continue his fraudulent claims of a stolen election.


Despite the election having been repeatedly investigated and declared “the most secure in American history” by a group of experts, the former president is said to be convinced the election result will be overturned.


As are those in his close circle fighting a series of quixotic battles on his behalf.


Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a Trump confidant who claims to have evidence that shows voting machines were hacked by China, told the Guardian Trump would be returned to office by August or – at the latest – September.


“With me they just keep saying: ‘It’s a conspiracy, Mike Lindell – he’s crazy, blah blah blah,’ all this stuff,” Lindell said. “But I think it gives the whole country hope because they know me and they know I wouldn’t be out there if I wasn’t 100%.”


Lindell, who is being sued for $1.3bn by the voting machine manufacturer Dominion over his repeatedly stated conspiracy theory that the company distorted the results of the election, might not be giving the whole country hope, but Trump and the 53% of Republicans who believe he won the election are certainly receiving a boost.


Trump’s aspirations are also being bolstered by Doug Mastriano, a failed Republican candidate for Congress in 2018 who now represents one of the 50 state senate districts in Pennsylvania, and Christina Bobb, a host at One America News Network, a rightwing channel that has faithfully propagated claims of election meddling, despite no evidence of any widespread fraud.


A lack of evidence has apparently not prevented Trump from believing the hype. The Washington Post reported this month that Trump is enthralled by a politically charged vote recount in Arizona, while according to the New York Times the 45th president, egged on by the likes of Lindell, does indeed believe he will be back in the White House this summer.


“His main focus is on Maricopa county and all the audits that are actually going on in the country here,” said Lindell, whose friendship with Trump grew over the last four years and blossomed when the pillow connoisseur became one of the loudest voices crying voter fraud.


“I think that gives him the most hope because everyone can see that,” Lindell said. Republicans have pushed for audits in several key states, despite previous audits having found no evidence of wrongdoing in any state in the country.


While Trump is concentrating on his audits, Lindell has focused his energies on a mysterious batch of data he says he was given – he won’t reveal who handed it to him – on 9 January.


Lindell claims that the data shows that Dominion and Smartmatic machines were hacked into by China, which changed votes from Trump to Biden. The results, he claims, are conclusive.


“If you were at a crime scene, and you had a DNA of blood and you had a movie of who did it, this is kind of what you have here, only better,” Lindell said.


The US government’s cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency disagrees. In a statement addressing “election security rumor vs reality”, the agency said voting system safeguards prevent exactly the thing Lindell is attempting to prove.


Last November, top cybersecurity experts from inside and outside the government issued a joint statement saying the election was “the most secure in American history”. They added: “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”


None of that has deterred Lindell, who said he has spent more than $12m of his own money on his bid to overturn the election. “I’ve had private investigators, I’ve had lawyers, I’ve put money into my own social media platform, I just … every waking moment is on my efforts to get this out there,” he said.


As Lindell barrages his way across the post-election conspiracy theory landscape, the other main attempt to overturn the election is happening at the local level.


Republicans’ main hopes seem to rest on Arizona, where the Republican-controlled state senate is performing its own audit of the election result in Maricopa county, despite multiple audits having already affirmed the election results.


The firm hired to conduct the audit, Cyber Ninjas, has little experience in elections, its CEO has promoted conspiracy theories that the election was fraudulent, and the audit has been funded, at least in part, by Trump-aligned figures, suggesting it may not be an entirely neutral effort. But it has excited many on the right.


Bobb, the OANN host, has been a repeated visitor to the audit. “Why Christina Bobb’s OAN ‘coverage’ of the Arizona audit is deceptive - and dangerous,” read one headline in the Arizona Republic newspaper this week. Bobb has discussed the effort with Trump and his team, the Washington Post reported. While nominally acting as a reporter on the audit, Bobb has also been fundraising for the venture.


Bobb interviewed Mastriano as the state senator visited the Maricopa county in early June and declared the goings on there as “the first forensic audit in the world”.


The pair share more than just a passion for spurious election fraud claims. Like Bobb, Mastriano is said to have been whispering in Trump’s ear, and he has called for a Maricopa-style audit in Pennsylvania. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the far-right member of Congress, has backed a similar audit in her state of Georgia, where multiple recounts have already confirmed Joe Biden’s win. There is also a push for an audit in Michigan.


There is no direct way for the supreme court to overturn the election – “in the same way sharks can’t grow legs on command and stroll on to land”, as Business Insider put it – but people like Lindell, Mastriano and Bobb will keep pushing. And in any case, shilling for Trump does have its benefits.


Mastriano, unknown until recently, has seen a once scarcely imaginable rise in his fame and is expected to run for Pennsylvania governor next year. Trump has promised to campaign on his behalf, Mastriano told a local radio station, while Rudy Giuliani headlined a Mastriano event in May. Bobb has seen her profile inexorably increase and become a star in rightwing circles.


Lindell, hunkered down with his secret data and his cybersecurity experts, seems unlikely to see any benefit, however.


He was being mentioned as a candidate for Minnesota governor before his immersion in the election fraud conspiracy, which has cost him both credibility and the ability to sell his pillows at Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s and other big-name stores.


Nevertheless, Lindell will keep going on his lonely march. His next step, he said, would be to hold a “symposium” in July, where cybersecurity experts and journalists can examine his data. He hasn’t chosen a state yet, or a date, or sent out any invites, but he has high hopes.


Once people had seen his information, Lindell said, he would petition the supreme court and ask it to overturn the presidential election and reinstate Trump.


“Just because it hasn’t happened before doesn’t mean that, when a crime of this magnitude has been committed, you don’t look at it and you don’t take care of it,” Lindell said.


“I think they’re gonna move very fast. It could be August, it could be off by a month or so.”


He added: “It’ll be this year. I don’t see what other choice they have.”

The sycophantic inner circle egging on Trump – and fueling his big lie | Donald Trump | The Guardian

On that note ...



Given the opportunity to be of service to their country, most former U.S. presidents are happy to help.

Then there’s Donald Trump.

A stunted man-child who’s never done anything without first asking, “What’s in it for me?” the ex-president has actively hurt America since leaving office in January, largely by doing everything he can to undermine democracy, whether it’s his continued attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election or telling people he’s going to be “reinstated” as POTUS in a matter of months.

Also unhelpful?

His decision to prolong the pandemic by telling people not to have their children vaccinated for COVID-19.

Yes, despite regularly insisting that he doesn’t get enough credit for the coronavirus vaccines, Trump claimed during an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday that school-age children should not be inoculated against the deadly virus.

“Now we have to get back and the schools have to get open—and frankly, we’re lucky we have the vaccine.
But the vaccine on very young people is something that you gotta really stop,” Trump inexplicably said.

“You have to get back to running your country—I mean, I don’t see reasons—and I am a big believer in what we did with the vaccine. It’s incredible what we did. You see the results.

But to have every school child, where it’s 99.99%, they just don’t—you know, they’re just not affected or affected badly.

Having to receive a vaccine I think is something that you should start thinking about, because I think it’s unnecessary.”

Donald Trump, Human Parasite, Is Now Telling People Not to Vaccinate Their Kids Against Coronavirus | Vanity Fair