Trump says it was 'my decision' to try to overturn 2020 election results

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Source: CNN

Former President Donald Trump said that he received counsel from numerous people shortly after the 2020 election but that it was his decision to push the false claim he won the presidency and try to overturn the results.
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"You know who I listen to? Myself. I saw what happened," Trump said...

Trump says he supports mental competency tests for presidency amid concerns over age
The former president said he didn't listen to his attorneys who told him he lost the election because he didn't respect them.

"You hire them, you've never met these people, you get a recommendation, they turn out to be RINOs (Republicans in name only), or they turn out to be not so good. In many cases, I didn't respect them," Trump said. "But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/17/politics/trump-election-results-decision/index.html

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Basically he just confessed. This should guarantee a guilty verdict if justice is blind.
Who are the "many others" who agreed the election was rigged? They are are almost certainly his yes-men-and-women co-defendants in Georgia.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. K&R

[dweller]

2. LOCK HIM UP !!

Now



✌🏻

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Breakthrough???? Coming to terms with reality????

[Ms. Toad]

21. Hardly.

Carefully read the quoted parts. He is admitting to being the decider. The description of what was decided is someone else's characterization of what was decided, not his description.

[PortTack]

24. Until he says something else

[usaf-vet]

37. Going to claim mental incapacity. Not fit to participate in his defense.

[brush]

4. We know. Just what SC Smith wants him to continue doing...incrimination himself.

Please proceed, criminal defendant.

[agingdem]

11. Wise man Jack Smith...

stop him from inciting violence, threatening prosecutors/judges and their families/witnesses...but he's free to confess...now that's the First Amendment!...

I think Donnie's malignant narcissistic ego demands he take credit for the crime of the century...a "crime like no one has as ever seen before" ...

[brush]

17. Hadn't thought of it that way. He propably is proud of...

nearly overthrowing the government.

His malignant narcississism is soon going to bite himin the ass terribly hard.

[agingdem]

27. yes...

on 9/11, after two planes hit the World Trade Center, Donnie bragged that now Trump Tower was the tallest building in Manhattan..and he is forever waxing poetic about the January 6 crowd size...so it stands to reason he would want to take sole credit for "his" nearly successful coup attempt to set fire to the Constitution, to self-congratulate, as it were...

[electric_blue68]

65. Interesting take!

[FakeNoose]

5. Wow the attorneys are gonna lo-o-ove that one

[democratsruletheday]

12. Every time the Orange POS opens his pie hole

he incriminates himself. Like someone else just said in this thread....please proceed dummy. Kinda doubt he's ever had his miranda rights read to him but if so, he's chosen to ignore the right to remain silent. Again....proceed ass hat.

[electric_blue68]

64. Baaahahahahahaaaaa...

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democratsruletheday:

"but if so, he's chosen to ignore the right to remain silent."

😄😄😄😄😄 👍


He's so awful - you have to laugh sometimes they keep from crying. 👍

[twodogsbarking]

6. A witless for the prosecution.

[erronis]

18. Cute! But I think this may actually be a calculated move.

They are not expecting that logical justice will prevail. They want to rile up as many as they can.

"They" is much larger than tffg, has a lot more $$$, wants to own/pwn the US.

[twodogsbarking]

20. All true and tfg loves the spotlight.

[RipVanWinkle]

58. It appears that Trump's strategy is to

taint the jury pool and go for a one-person jury nullification.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. He could not be more guilty!

[Warpy]

8. Well, jail to the chief!

His jail should be his NYC penthouse, where security would be a fairly inexpensive breeze. He'd have no access to any electronic device but his dishwasher and laundry facilities. Communication would be restricted to a closed service to his guards, only. Reassure his followers it's the lap of luxury.

It's too dangerous to the country to allow anything else, really.

A gilt and marble prison is still a prison.

[orleans]

35. not a bad idea actually. nt

[housecat]

40. Wherever they park him he's finished. Even a psychiatric facility will get him off the street.

His body is his forever prison and the only way out is....well you know. Death

[Warpy]

52. I certainly would not want to go through life with that diseased a mind

He knows people are loyal not because they like him but because they're afraid of what his money can do to them.

Ugh.

[DENVERPOPS]

77. Could it be a disease like

Tertiary Syphilis??????

[Warpy]

78. No, he's always been that way

It's why his brother Fred dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes over his head when they were kids and why his parents had to pack him off to military school when he was a teenager.

It's called malignant narcissism and it's the worst form of the worst personality disorder out there.

Tertiary syphilis first presents as kind of a permanent happy drunk and slowly progresses to paranoid delusions and worse as the sores appear, eat into bone, and the pain is unrelenting. The last case I've seen was in the 80s, the happy drunk stage. The patient was glad we could stop the progression but wanted to keep enjoying life. We reassured her the antibiotics wouldn't sober her up.

TFG has always enjoyed the finest medical care his daddy's money could buy, so there's no way he'd go past the first stage, the skin rash and chancre. Given his habit of mauling any woman he caught alone anywhere, he's probably needed antibiotics more than once.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

81. Stop. Seriously.

If you knew anything about tertiary syphilis, you would know that anyone in that stage of the disease is incapable of a public life. Besides, even if he'd had syphilis at all, that hack doctor of his would have picked up on it and treated it, long ago.

He's stupid and an arsehole, but he doesn't present as tertiary syphilis--and never has.

Stop assigning things to him that malignant narcissism explains perfectly well.

[electric_blue68]

66. This!..

Warpy:

"A gilt and marble prison is still a prison."

Either I thought about posting something like this in another thread, or I actually did a few+ days ago regarding ?minimum security, the fancier prison who's general ?nickname I can't quite recall....
possibly - ?"country club" prison.

If you can't choose to freely walk out of a place no matter how "nice" it is - it's a prison.

[housecat]

73. Too many people are in a self-made prison but don't know it.

[jmowreader]

75. I have a better idea

His jail can be a two-bedroom house on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA. After he croaks they can use it as quarters for a staff sergeant and his family. His jail job can be mowing the golf course, but he will never be allowed to play golf.

[electric_blue68]

80. Baaahahahahaaaaa! Love the idea of his jail job mowing the golf course Without being able to play on

...it!.



As for an army person & family living there next; first it would need a fumigation service, a major sage smudging, perhaps several kinds of other religious ceremonies to cast out demons, and bad spirits, etc, etc!

[coprolite]

9. You can't demand respect, respect is earned

You don't have to respect your lawyers, but you should respect the law. If you don't respect the laws, you are nothing but a criminal.

[2naSalit]

10. Good grief...

Are we there yet?

[Aristus]

13. Is he pleading out? is there a deal in place?

No run in 2024 in exchange for supervised release? Monday open-of-business is twenty hours away. Let's see something happen...

[housecat]

42. No run any time any place. Must be out of politics or whatever it is he does.

[dalton99a]

14. Keep talking, asshole

[Beartracks]

15. LOL He just lawyer-shopped 'til he found psychofants.

Sorry, I meant sycofants. Clearly.

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[housecat]

44. I like "psychofants." Has a ring to it.

[Beartracks]

87. They gotta be psycho if they expect they'll ever get paid!!

[House of Roberts]

16. It was Hitler's decision to invade the rest of Europe

and kill Jews, but everybody who threw in with him were guilty too.

[BWdem4life]

19. "I only respected the ones who told me what I wanted to hear."

lol duh

[area51]

54. +1 n/t

[tinrobot]

22. So maybe Kristen Welker wasn't so bad after all.

A few "Mr. Presidents" go a long way with that pathetic man.

I think she knew that flattering him was key to getting admissions of guilt like this.

[housecat]

45. I agree. She is a smart lady.

[ificandream]

49. And it's pathetic how some in social media were all over her before it aired.

Some people can't wait to open their mouths. It's a symptom of Trumpitis.

[Bayard]

23. You know his attorneys' eyes are glazed over,

And they are slowly shaking their heads.

Hope they got their money up front!

[Shermann]

29. Don Jr was tasked with running that briefcase full of cash over

They are as good as paid!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

82. You sure?

I have a feeling that if Don Jr got that much cash in his grubby little paws, the only place he'd run to is his coke dealer.

[peacebuzzard]

25. Well maybe admission of guilt looks appealing to him,

if he even remotely considered the seriousness of the situation.
However, something tells me he does not consider anything at all; after all, he is a narcissist.

[Hekate]

26. He cannot stop himself from boasting. As Mary Trump said of her uncle...

… (quoting, as I just discovered, Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaking of her own father, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt) —
“Donald wants to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”

Trump simply cannot shut up about his being the center of the universe, the prime mover of all things, even if it ultimately leads to his own annihilation. Which, may I pray, happens soon.

[Paper Roses]

28. He is trying now to get off because of mental incapacity.

What lawyer told him to try this BS? He is incapacitated but this is no excuse to void his responsibility.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

83. He'll never go the insanity route

His malignant narcissism would never allow it. He is literally incapable of admitting to being wrong, or less than wonderful and perfect in every way.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

30. TGG: "I respected many others that said the election was rigged."

The former president also said he didn't listen to his attorneys who told him he lost the election because he didn't respect them.

i.e., He only listened to those who agreed with him. Everyone else was incompetent.

[yaesu]

31. The A Few Good Men moment on the witness stand. Nt

[aggiesal]

32. Pendejo45 has to be Pendejo45 ...

What an idiot?
Is he daring Jack Smith to use this statement?
Because Smith will.

[housecat]

46. Yeap. Terminal pendejo

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. Simpletons (incl orange) seek confirmation and don't seek contrary opinions. . . . nt

[Novara]

34. And his lawyers are all wondering if they need to quit now

What a fucking moron.

Jack Smith probably has this in a loop and is playing it over and over again because it's so satisfying when a criminal admits they committed the crime for which they are charged.

[iluvtennis]

36. Well, that's a GUILTY CONFESSION for both Georgia & Federal indictments for election interference.

[Justice matters.]

38. And yet, he is totally free to incite violence against judges, prosecutors...

... and their family, election-worker volunteers, expected witnesses (of his crimes), et al.

Totally free to run his filthy mouth and post inanities all day long and deep into the night.

What if something bad happens to any one or two of his targets? Who will be blamed for not locking him up earlier, like any other criminal defendant who would behave like he does?? And how would they be able to sleep peacefully at night for the rest of their life feeling the guilt of not preventing him from inciting the violent incident(s)?

[electric_blue68]

69. I sure as hell hope something like this Doesn't happen!

[electric_blue68]

67. Baaahahahahaaaaaa.... Ty! 👍

[bluestarone]

39. Have we just now got proof of

INSURRECTION? Sounds like it to me.

[Justice matters.]

41. Who are the "many others" ...

His unindicted (yet) co-conspirators. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6?

[AdamGG]

43. It will be fun if he ever takes the witness stand

It would make Jack Nicholson, "You can't handle the truth" seem like exemplary witness behavior by comparison.

[housecat]

47. They would have to carry him out screaming

[electric_blue68]

68. You'd love to see that 😄

[housecat]

71. Couldn't resist

[electric_blue68]

79. Baaahahahahahaaaaa! I was using the general "you" - I'd Love to See It, too! 😄

I give you a fabulous, tangential (but rather appropriate) meme, that I haven't seen in a good while, but has totaly stuck with me...

Playground.
Mother with a flailing toddler tucked under her arm leaving the place.

Text: ( la close approximation)
At some point you will carry a
screaming demon child from the playground.

Omg!


I suppose to transfer this to a court based setting re: drumphf; approximately:

At some you will
(where's du4 when you need it!😉 ) escort drag a Screaming Demon Client (in cuffs) from the courtroom.

🤔 I do believe that could possibly describe drumphf's behavior under the "right" circumstances.

[Novara]

48. Does NBC understand that they're helping to taint the jury pool?

I'm betting the defense moves to strike everyone who watched him admit to the crime on national TV.

[keopeli]

62. That's OK with me. Plenty of people will not see it, like me. But they'll see it IN COURT...

But they'll see it IN COURT as evidence AGAINST him!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

84. You're over-estimating the numbers of people

Who care about politics enough to notice this.

And even that far exceeds the number of people who know that MTP exists. The average American who does know about it sees it only as that show they hop over on the telly dial when they're channel surfing for Sunday sports matchups.

[Kaleva]

50. He only respects those who tell him what he wants to hear

[Aussie105]

51. Something wrong with that man . . .

But keep talking!

Clear case of lawyer shopping.

[housecat]

72. Everything is wrong with him

[turbinetree]

53. LOCK HIM UP......

[czarjak]

55. "I did it, I didn't do it." Good people. On both sides.

Funny how "strong, powerful denials" were good enough for Vlad.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

56. Enjoy your stay at the gray bar hotel Donny boy/

[marble falls]

57. Keep talking wise guy.

[EndlessWire]

59. I dunno

There's a reason for everything. There's a reason he said that. That wasn't confusion or a mistake.

He is busy manipulating the Courts and the media, and public opinion. He is playing the long game, or at least a medium game. It seems to me that he is maneuvering to throw someone under the bus for his own benefit. It will amount to nothing by the time he is finished or has to face the music.

But, for the moment, he has said it. Will anybody else ask him about the remarks? I doubt it. Instead, he will finetune it and regurgitate whatever he needs to go with it at his next rally speech.

[RobinA]

74. You're Giving Him

way too much credit. No, it wasn't confusion or a mistake. It was Trump being Trump, telling the world what a smart guy he is. He's smarter than his lawyers, doncha know. He can't stop himself.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

86. Come on

This guy doesn't know long or medium game. He's too stupid for it. All he really knows is the here and now. He may have an idea of what he wants in the future, but is utterly clueless about how to get there. He leave the hard work of that to minions.

He's not like a cat, who understands things like upwind/downwind, getting into position, waiting, and so on to get prey. He's a shark--he doesn't know anything about how to find prey. He just swims around until he happens upon something he can eat, and then he attacks. But as for thinking through finding it, prepping for it, waiting for it?

Nope. Doesn't happen. Sharks don't need strategy or tactics, when they have brute force.

[NowsTheTime]

60. After viewing preview I pre-judged the interview, I owe Kristen a big apology..

....put him in the spotlight and play to his ego....l

[msfiddlestix]

63. No you don't. It was completely accidental. This was not some brilliant tactic, planned out.

She's who you thought she was.

And it won't be long before you see or hear her being that breathless bothsiderism queen of press reporters with a special seat at the table now.

[SWBTATTReg]

61. So you did the illegal electors too, all by yourself, to illegally overthrow a valid election? Sure

sounds like it.

You've already failed the aptitude test by confusing Obama w/ running against you multiple times.

Idiot.

[RexLipton]

70. If 10 scientists inform you that gravity exists

and you toss someone off a building because you don't believe them, you're guilty of both murder and stupidity*.





* not a legal defense strategy

[RevBrotherThomas]

76. I don't know why we continue to do this...

The painstaking fact checking of a habitual and chronic bullshit artist doesn't hurt him in the slightest. His minions don't read anything beyond what can be produced in a large print brochure fleecing them for money.

I mean I understand the spirit behind the fact checking - and some of it was good for a laugh once upon a time - but it is pointless.

The old warning of never getting into a chess match with a pigeon; no matter how well you play, the pigeon will knock over the pieces, shit on the board, and claim victory.

[AllaN01Bear]

85. tke the keys and lock em up, lock em up.

[tonekat]

88. Please tell me why he

is still stumbling around, free? He confessed!