'Not over on Election Day': Trump campaign plans post-election mayhem
A senior Trump campaign adviser delivered a not-so-subtle threat about November’s election in an interview with Politico on Thursday: “It’s not over until he puts his hand on the Bible and takes the oath. It’s not over until then,” Chris LaCivita told Politico’s Jonathon Martin. “It’s not over on Election Day, it’s over on Inauguration Day, cause I wouldn’t put anything past anybody.” This follows an increasing trend of sometimes violent rhetoric and pre-election denial coming from Republicans, setting the stage for a contested election. “As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” said Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, according to The Washington Post. That followed an election war game by the “2024 Transition Integrity Project,” a Heritage organization that is technically independent but has a large number of Heritage employees. One of the scenarios in that exercise was the FBI arresting a victorious Donald Trump the day after the election. Trump himself continues to refuse to say he will accept the results of the election, conditioning it on what he calls a “free and fair” result. In his Republican National Convention acceptance speech Thursday night, Trump veered off from lying about his successful handling of Iran and China to nurse his biggest grudge. “And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we’ll never let happen again,” Trump complained. “The election result. We’re never going to let that happen again. They used COVID to cheat. We’re never going to let it happen again.” The way LaCivita tells it, however, Trump and the campaign are only focused on “the issues that matter, Social Security, protecting Social Security and Medicare, closing the border.” That came in answer to a question about Trump’s campaigning on pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters. “I always find it amazing that you guys are the ones that bring it up,” LaCivita said, trying to gaslight Martin, pretending like Trump doesn’t obsess over the “stolen” election and hasn’t called Jan. 6, 2021 a “beautiful day.” Or that Trump doesn’t call the convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionists political “hostages and “unbelievable patriots,” and doesn’t play the Jan. 6 prison choir anthem at his events. LaCivita also disavowed the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, describing it as “a pain in the ass” and “utter bullshit” adding “They do not speak for the campaign.” Never mind the dozens of former Trump administration officials who wrote the damn thing. Just more gaslighting from a campaign that is telling us not to believe what is in front of our eyes. This is something that the traditional media is helping team Trump do on a regular basis by refusing to report on the batshit, dangerous, dark stuff Trump is actually talking about. Not to mention what he’s planning to do. RELATED STORIES: Trump’s denial generates a surge of reporting on diabolical Project 2025 The more voters know about Project 2025, the more they hate it Trump allies sow the seeds for election violence Campaign Action
JoriPress
A senior Trump campaign adviser delivered a not-so-subtle threat about November’s election in an interview with Politico on Thursday: “It’s not over until he puts his hand on the Bible and takes the oath. It’s not over until then,” Chris LaCivita told Politico’s Jonathon Martin.
“It’s not over on Election Day, it’s over on Inauguration Day, cause I wouldn’t put anything past anybody.”
This follows an increasing trend of sometimes violent rhetoric and pre-election denial coming from Republicans, setting the stage for a contested election. “As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” said Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, according to The Washington Post.
That followed an election war game by the “2024 Transition Integrity Project,” a Heritage organization that is technically independent but has a large number of Heritage employees. One of the scenarios in that exercise was the FBI arresting a victorious Donald Trump the day after the election.
Trump himself continues to refuse to say he will accept the results of the election, conditioning it on what he calls a “free and fair” result. In his Republican National Convention acceptance speech Thursday night, Trump veered off from lying about his successful handling of Iran and China to nurse his biggest grudge.
“And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we’ll never let happen again,” Trump complained. “The election result. We’re never going to let that happen again. They used COVID to cheat. We’re never going to let it happen again.”
The way LaCivita tells it, however, Trump and the campaign are only focused on “the issues that matter, Social Security, protecting Social Security and Medicare, closing the border.” That came in answer to a question about Trump’s campaigning on pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters.
“I always find it amazing that you guys are the ones that bring it up,” LaCivita said, trying to gaslight Martin, pretending like Trump doesn’t obsess over the “stolen” election and hasn’t called Jan. 6, 2021 a “beautiful day.” Or that Trump doesn’t call the convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionists political “hostages and “unbelievable patriots,” and doesn’t play the Jan. 6 prison choir anthem at his events.
LaCivita also disavowed the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, describing it as “a pain in the ass” and “utter bullshit” adding “They do not speak for the campaign.” Never mind the dozens of former Trump administration officials who wrote the damn thing. Just more gaslighting from a campaign that is telling us not to believe what is in front of our eyes.
This is something that the traditional media is helping team Trump do on a regular basis by refusing to report on the batshit, dangerous, dark stuff Trump is actually talking about. Not to mention what he’s planning to do.
RELATED STORIES:
Trump’s denial generates a surge of reporting on diabolical Project 2025
The more voters know about Project 2025, the more they hate it
Trump allies sow the seeds for election violence Campaign Action
