One response from Trump's NPR interview that hangs out there...

[kentuck]

When questioned about why Rudy Guiliani and his lawyers never brought up "fraud" in front of any of the courts? Yet, they were telling their supporters the election was a "fraud"? In other words, they were in front of the judges and they had no evidence whatsoever. Any wonder why the judges ruled against them in almost every single case, except the one where the poll watchers were permitted to stand closer.

Trump said:

"It was too early to ask for fraud and to talk about fraud. Rudy said that, because of the fact it was very early with the — because that was obviously at a very, very — that was a long time ago. The things that have found out have more than bore out what people thought and what people felt and what people found."

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It was too early to ask for fraud???

[secondwind]

1. He can't even LIE properly.. what a useless POS this man is...

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. I think it sounds like...

He keeps realizing he’s about to say something incriminating, and he still manages to stop the freight train (his mouth) from saying something to implicate himself or others.

His handlers must really hate him giving interviews. He always confesses his own crimes, because he’s proud of himself. But, this time, many other people’s freedom is on the line. Sad.

[lagomorph777]

2. Brain in a blender

What a scrambled mess of words.

Dude should be in the memory care wing at Gitmo.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. Yet

he is somehow qualified to run for President again if he so chooses.

[TheRealNorth]

8. That can be an advantage....

Because then his supporters will hear what they want to hear.

[Harker]

16. Yes. No coherence.

Frappéd.

[erronis]

28. Would you like a maraschino cherry on that?

The image of a trumpian brain(?) being whirred and then served to his masses is a bit disturbing.

I guess one could order that on top of a Frappucino at your local stirbucks.

[jaxexpat]

24. The enhanced extraordinary care wing.

[Harker]

31. I'd maybe wipe off the cherry and dump the rest. n/t

[underpants]

3. Early - early - long time ago - now (found)

It’s like one of those movies with a wormhole. We all get lost at some point in the story

I love this “ because that was obviously at a very, very”

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Sounds like they were working off some kind of timeline plan.

Fraud was further down on the list of schemes they would enact to try to overturn the election.

Trump will never be questioned under oath about his coup attempt. He would crumble, and give up everyone. It will be interesting to see the attempts to avoid giving testimony. I predict chaos, should he be subpoenaed.

[Mr.Bill]

19. No, he would just lie.

Then it would take five more years for the perjury investigation.

[gab13by13]

29. Made me laugh, thanks, I needed some humor.

[sop]

7. "Too early"?

Trump had been alleging fraud all during the 2020 campaign and he started filing suits right after the election.

[Stuart G]

9. Thank You for posting...K and R

[sarcasmo]

10. Trump still grifting off the Big Lie.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Remember when we thought GHWB rambled incoherently ?

TFG does something like a buffer dump anytime he's asked a question -- whatever phrases he's recently associated with that topic, he just dumps them all together and leaves it up to the listener to figure out how to make a coherent statement from the collection. MAGAts hear what they want to hear; to the rest of us, it's just content-free gibberish.

[DallasNE]

12. What "Thinks"?

That is the big lie right there. There are no "things" that "bore out" fraud. None.

[iscooterliberally]

13. I'm no English professor. It was my least favorite subject in school.

I can't listen to Trump though. All he ever does is sputter sentence fragments. I guess if I snorted a gram of cocaine first he might start making sense to me. That would probably land me a trip straight to the ER though.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. Yes, sir. Only if your brain is as addled as that demon brain can the words be understood.

Fox or actual cocaine? Either seems to work.

Not that I would know ofc….

[FakeNoose]

15. Chump stops himself from saying that the fraud hadn't happened yet

The fraud didn't happen until January 6th, and it was done by the Repukes. But of course even Chump realizes that if he actually said that, he'd be incriminating all of them.

I think we should give him lots more chances to incriminate himself. Eventually he WILL do it, wait and see.

[rownesheck]

17. Did this POS

receive a frontal lobotomy as a child and no one told him?

[CaptainTruth]

18. I noticed that at the time.

Publicly they went on & on about fraud, said hundreds (if not thousands) of times there was fraud, yet none of the lawsuits they filed claimed there was any fraud.

It seemed clear that they realized they could blatantly lie to their low-information MAGAt followers & get away with it, but blatantly lying to a judge in court would not end well for them.

[OMGWTF]

20. A lawyer who knowingly lies to a judge can be disbarred.

That's likely the real reason why Ghouliani didn't bring up fraud in court. Rudy knows he's full of guano.

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. He would have made a great trial lawyer!

The eloquence! Talk about thinking on your feet!!!

[dchill]

22. They KNEW there was fraud.

They also knew they were the fraudsters. Their story was still being written.

[Ohio Joe]

23. So... They don't ask for fraud now because?

Because there was no fucking fraud... Gah, that fucking guy is an idiot.

[SCantiGOP]

25. That interview proved one thing

There is no one he is listening to for advice. No one would have let him go on NPR if they could have stopped him.
There was nothing for him to gain. It was pure ego wanting to have an audience.

[Martin Eden]

26. Does the MAGA base understand word salad?

They certainly swallow it eagerly.

[krkaufman]

27. Simple enough...

He’s evolved the lie to be that it was too early to cite fraud because the evidence proving fraud had not YET been collected. It now has been.

[Mr. Ected]

30. They knew there wasn't fraud involved but also knew they could allege it all day long

On television, since the only way they'd have to pay the price for their lies is if those statements were made under oath. That's why Rudy would go on TV and say one thing and then step into court and say another.

[allegorical oracle]

32. Could be a bit of addled flashback on the part of TFG -- perhaps

recalling Rudy's reaction upon losing the 1989 NYC Mayoral race. Rudy lost to David Dinkins by 47,080 votes and pitched a hissy fit, claiming Dinkins' voters stole votes. He said this in a CNN interview in 2016:

“When I ran for mayor of New York City the first time, some people voted eight and 10 times. And the second time, I had — I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses, so we take down the number of the bus. The bus had voted 10 times. And then we wouldn't let the bus vote again,’’ Giuliani told host Jake Tapper. He then insisted that because of his own campaign’s vigilance in 1993, he was able to reduce the cheating to just 25,000 votes that year, helping him defeat the incumbent mayor. “Dead people generally vote for Democrats, rather than Republicans,’’ Giuliani added.

[Blue Owl]

33. Like a big, fat turd that hasn't hit the bowl yet; dangling from an asshole...

[GoodRaisin]

34. Typical Trump answer - gibberish.