Trump - began 'choreographing' premature victory - to send supporters to bed thinking he'd won

[Demovictory9]

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-reportedly-began-choreographing-premature-181400356.html

President Trump is known for going off script, but his premature presidential election victory declaration in the early hours of the morning on Nov. 4 wasn't a completely spur-of-the-moment decision, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.

In the first installment of a reported series on Trump's final two months in office, Swan writes that Trump began "choreographing election night in earnest" during the second week of October following a "toxic" debate with President-elect Joe Biden on Sept. 29 and a bout with COVID-19 that led to his hospitalization. At that point, Trump's internal poll numbers had reportedly taken a tumble, Swan notes.

With that in mind, he reportedly called his first White House chief of staff, a stunned Reince Priebus, and "acted out his script, including walking up to a podium and prematurely declaring victory on election night if it looked like he was ahead." Indeed, in the lead up to Election Day, Trump reportedly kept his focus on the so-called "red mirage," the early vote counts that would show many swing states leaning red because mail-in ballots had yet to be counted. Trump, Swan reports, intended to "weaponize it for his vast base of followers," who would go to bed thinking he had secured a second-term, likely planting the seeds of a stolen election. Read more at Axios.

[sakabatou]

1. How many times do we have to say Trump's delusional?

[Mr.Bill]

2. Someone needs to get a copy of that and put a laugh track on it. n/t

[msongs]

3. direct link to axios....

https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

[Blue Owl]

4. Fondly recalling the Arizona surprise that night...

The first domino to tip in his hairplug-brained scheme...

[underpants]

5. That's pretty much what I thought happened.

I didn’t know about the 200 people. Didn’t get an invite.

[captain queeg]

6. Well, another Hitler parallel

We only have to kick in the door and the entire rotten structure will collapse.

The war in the east is as good as over, Moscow will fall within 2 weeks

Stalingrad is finished

[Takket]

7. there was a lot of discussion on DU that he was going to do exactly that........

and DU was exactly right.

[JI7]

8. And then Fox News Called Arizona for Biden

[mackdaddy]

9. I have heard Trumpers saying "I went to be and Trump was winning" as their 'proof'.

Both in interviews and in my limited dealings with the few Trumpers still on my Social medial.

For the numb-skulls it did work.

[demtenjeep]

10. its always a "show" to him

we have real problems and real issues to solve and he thought it was just the perks and he didn't have to do anything



FUCK HIM

[oasis]

11. Knowing deplorable dunderheads would buy into whatever he said. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

12. He telegraphed this for weeks

We knew this is what he would do. And Biden knew the mail in ballots would be the difference.

That night was awful for most of us. It took until very very late that there were some data sets that showed Joe was in OK shape. Then the next day things starting coming in and it was soon evident Biden would win. Took until Saturday to be called, but it was over before they.