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submitted 1 week ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

With just days to go before his first — and likely only — debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.

“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump wrote, again sowing doubt about the integrity of the election, even though cheating is incredibly rare.

“Please beware,” he went on, “that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”

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[-] lenninscjay@lemm.ee 168 points 1 week ago

Straight out of the fascist playbook. Claiming the election is stolen before voting has even taken place.

Yet the GOP is the one with a fake elector scheme.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago

Also from Nazi playbook - accuse your opponents for exactly what you are doing

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Claiming the election is stolen before voting has even taken place.

He's been doing that since 2015

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago

When did Presidential power start to include the power to jail whoever you want? Why does anyone even imagine that might be an ok situation?

I lost any general respect for nearly half of my fellow citizens in 2016, it hasnt improved a lot since.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Just watched Vice again last night. Supposed to be a bit funny but it is chilling. The seeds for this degree of power started around Nixon / Regan but only now are we about to see the kind of power Cheney worked for. Now even he fears this power.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I lost respect for them when George W sent 4k American youths to their death for oil. Destroyed the Middle East. And killed countless middle easterners. His VP made hundreds of millions a of dollars while in office assisting in this destruction.

And they reelected him cause the other guy might have changed his opinion about things.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 79 points 1 week ago

I've long known that when this country slips into fascism, my name will be on a list. I won't be on the first list or the second list. But I'll be on one of them. And eventually, they'll come for me.

Orange bad is the one that wants to make it a reality right now.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Be prepared, but not in fear. Also, Kamala Harris will win but the weird orange felon will certainly try to call in his goon squad and the Extreme Court.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago

He's going to start calling for their deaths any time now.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 week ago

“Please beware,” he went on, “that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”

What people don’t quite grasp is that he means exactly what he says.

He considers, for example, being a lawyer to be “unscrupulous behavior”. As is donating to anyone but himself. Or voting for anyone but him.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 54 points 1 week ago

More nazi shit. Cool, cool.

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 37 points 1 week ago

Oh dear. Is the sad, confused, and weird old man rambling again?

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

doesn't even know where he is

[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I am the Law

Trump Dredd

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

Going to Prison if you Insult the President is called FREEDOM and EXACTLY what the Founders Intended!

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

#1 Maduro fan in the US

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Who taught him the phrase "legal exposure"?

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

One of the lawyers he didn't pay

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

The debate (Tuesday night?) is going to be a REAL shitshow. Hope the moderators/network don't protect him too much but expecting at least one n-word and a few unprompted threats of retribution to both democrats and republicans.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

The people who live blog fact checking will likely need an open bar right next to them to get though it.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

Mein Drumpf

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? You can’t prosecute if they are official acts

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Never thought we’d need a constitutional amendment that spells out the president and all elected and non elected government workers are subject to all the laws of the United States in the exact same way civilians are. But here we are.

How do we get this passed, folks?

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

As a constitutional amendment? Not going to happen. See: Texas

[-] norimee@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

That's what a good authoritarian leader does. Persecuting the opposition, of course.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Does voting against him count as cheating?

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

How democratic of you, Donnie.

He is afraid.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Dementia causes verbal aggression.

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 8 points 1 week ago

He wasn't that bright even before the dementia.

[-] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

It's a veiled threat to election workers and everyone involved in the election

[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

So related topic, what's a good anti-Trump group to give money to? Of course there's the Kamala campaign and Republican Voters Against Trump, but I feel like both of these are repeating attacks that are already out there and common in the media. Corruption is a bipartisan issue, and despite epic levels of corruption in his administration somehow many voters seem to view Trump as some sort of incorruptible guy.

If there was a group that would point out his alleged selling of pardons (which is quite apparent given who he has pardoned), hiring of lobbyists to run just about everything, politicizing the justice department (e.g. killing an investigation into an alleged bribe he got from egypt), and use of taxpayer-funded resources to reward allies and donors, they'd get an admittedly small chunk of money from me. Any group doing that?

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Consider donating to your local high-school's sharpshooting team. If there had been more spots open on one of these high-school clubs honing the skills, accuracy, and range of our nation's young people, this election would have been very different starting about 6 weeks ago.

It's like when he threatened Hillary Clinton to send her to jail

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