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Galraedia

(5,027 posts)
Thu May 19, 2022, 07:16 PM May 2022

Michigan election chief: Trump suggested I be arrested for treason and executed

Source: NBC News

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top election official, faced an onslaught of threats after the 2020 presidential election for refusing to overturn results that showed Joe Biden had won the state. In those hectic weeks, she says she also received an especially disturbing piece of information: President Donald Trump suggested in a White House meeting that she should be arrested for treason and executed.

Benson, a Democrat, revealed the alleged remark for the first time in an interview with NBC News. She said she learned of it from a source familiar with Trump’s White House meeting.

“It was surreal and I felt sad,” Benson said, recalling her reaction.

“It certainly amplified the heightened sense of anxiety, stress and uncertainty of that time — which I still feel in many ways — because it showed there was no bottom to how far he (Trump) and his supporters were willing to stoop to overturn or discredit a legitimate election.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/michigan-election-chief-trump-suggested-arrested-treason-executed-rcna29406?

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IcyPeas

(21,904 posts)
3. so, aside from all his countless other crimes....
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:13 PM
May 2022

he wanted to assassinate a world leader
he wanted to shoot protesters in the legs
he wanted this person executed.
he wanted to lob missiles into Mexico

and the 25th amendment wasn't used!!!

and he may run again.

Evolve Dammit

(16,763 posts)
4. Illegitimate Drumpf who LOST the popular vote will attempt an autocratic takeover like we have never
Thu May 19, 2022, 09:05 PM
May 2022

seen if he gets installed again. I hope he dies first, but if he doesn't and has both houses of Congress, this country is absolute toast. It will make Russia look enviable.

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
6. If he dies, there trumpettes in training, ie: desantis, cotton,
Fri May 20, 2022, 12:13 AM
May 2022

Who are just as vile, but way smarter than the great white hope, herr t*.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
5. mich state 11 and u of mich 7 broadcast sports on/support 18 rw radio stations used to attack her
Thu May 19, 2022, 10:27 PM
May 2022

like the uni of syracuse, not far from buffalo, which supports 9 rw kkk-lite radio stations that will now call the killer insane and anyone who suggests it was the assault weapons are commie liberals seeking to destroy america.

people at SU are discussing the astounding idiocy of an institution of higher learning renting out athletes to sell advertising to elect racist assholes trying to defund those same universities, take away their reproductive rights, and destroy their futures with global warming

and there are at least 87 universities doing the same shit to support trump, putin, and the fascist republicans

world wide wally

(21,754 posts)
12. Trump should be arrested for treason and conspiricay to commit murder.
Fri May 20, 2022, 10:00 AM
May 2022

Then he is the one who should be executed.

EndlessWire

(6,565 posts)
14. He's some kind of Red Mafia guy.
Fri May 20, 2022, 02:40 PM
May 2022

Who holds a WH meeting wherein he discusses someone he wants killed for crossing him? This is his standard reaction to anyone who crosses him about anything. If he runs and gets reelected, we are in for a world of hurt.

The whole GOP is now made up of mafia guys who are also afraid to cross their leader. And, there's a whole lot of us who will be on the list of those that are to be excluded from life.

It is imperative that we GOTV in November. And, we have to come up with the numbers to make Manchin and the other one irrelevant.

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