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Rhiannon12866

(203,034 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 08:35 PM Nov 2020

Trump Defends Lawsuits: "No One Knows More About Fraud Than Me"

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump offered a full-throated defense of his election-related lawsuits on Thursday, arguing, “No one knows more about fraud than me.”

Trump ridiculed television commentators who have dismissed his accusations of election fraud, claiming that he has “much more experience in fraud than all of these beauties put together.”

“People forget that, right when I became President, I settled a twenty-five-million-dollar fraud case against me,” he said. “You can’t beat hands-on experience like that.”

“For my entire life, I have been drenched in fraud,” he said.

Trump said that, when his election lawsuits are argued in court, his special expertise will win the day. “Fraud is my middle name,” he boasted.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-defends-lawsuits-no-one-knows-more-about-fraud-than-me




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Trump Defends Lawsuits: "No One Knows More About Fraud Than Me" (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 OP
Whoa.. Deuxcents Nov 2020 #1
I think he really said something like that once. marylandblue Nov 2020 #2
He certainly does. AngryOldDem Nov 2020 #3
I have referred to him as "DFT", but I was not thinking of "Fraud" RainCaster Nov 2020 #4
Isn't that what he's most frequently called here on DU?? Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 #5
Shut UP trump.. you know about your Cha Nov 2020 #6
How any states are still "too close to call" is baffling to me Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 #7
I heard him saying Cha Nov 2020 #8
So even Borowitz acknowledges that irony and satire have been bludgeoned to death. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2020 #9

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
3. He certainly does.
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 08:47 PM
Nov 2020

That didn’t have the quite the meaning he intended.

The man is a walking, talking fraud. Always has been.

RainCaster

(10,691 posts)
4. I have referred to him as "DFT", but I was not thinking of "Fraud"
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 08:49 PM
Nov 2020

He says "My middle name is Fraud", but I had a different word in mind.

Rhiannon12866

(203,034 posts)
7. How any states are still "too close to call" is baffling to me
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 06:51 AM
Nov 2020

He told us exactly who he was since the 2016 campaign!

Cha

(295,929 posts)
8. I heard him saying
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 06:59 AM
Nov 2020

on some clip.. maybe it was the Colbert one.. that he woke up and Biden was ahead after he was the night before.. and they were all states with Democratic Govs.. Big Whine!

Anyway if Biden officially gets Georgia that blows that accusation right out of the water.

And, he told us what he was going to do.. declare "victory" before all the votes were counted.

How's that working out for him?

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,041 posts)
9. So even Borowitz acknowledges that irony and satire have been bludgeoned to death.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 07:15 AM
Nov 2020
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

-- Will Rogers


Now this doesn't really have anything to do with the OP, but I've always liked Will Rogers and we need a reminder that rotten Ronnie didn't invent Republicans' deceit about economics:

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

-- Will Rogers
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