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spanone

(135,855 posts)
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 12:39 AM Aug 2016

donald trump makes his most dangerous comments yet

Of all the dangerous things Donald Trump has said, perhaps the most concerning is his assertion that the election might be rigged. This irresponsible, unsupported suggestion augurs poorly for Trump’s behavior in the increasingly likely event of his loss.

“The election’s going to be rigged,” Trump warned at a rally in Ohio. “I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged,” he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity.

Those comments set the stage for an explosive outcome the likes of which this country has never seen. It is not far-fetched to imagine Trump inciting his partisans against accepting the verdict of voters, further inflaming an already toxic political climate in Washington.

As much as Republicans sought to ensure President Obama’s failure from the moment of his election, their animus toward a President Hillary Clinton would be that much greater — even without Trump piling on. Clinton would enter office as a more divisive figure; after all, the GOP argument that she is disqualified to hold the office, whether by virtue of Benghazi or emails, preceded Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” attack.


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procon

(15,805 posts)
3. Like they did to Obama, Republicans are already working to delegitimize Hillary.
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 12:56 AM
Aug 2016

With Trump stirring the pot, too, no Democratic President with ever see a functioning government. By undermining the whole system government, Republicans are heading into dangerous territory that could rip the whole country apart.

 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
7. They have done it to every D President in my lifetime
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 02:11 AM
Aug 2016

Remember, Clinton didn't win the majority of the voters? Quickly forgotten with W.

 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
5. He needs to know RIGHT NOW that he will be held responsible IMMEDIATELY if he incites violence,
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 01:17 AM
Aug 2016

and that his private security people will NOT even slow down appropriate law enforcement action.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
10. We know what was stolen from us.
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 02:39 AM
Aug 2016

2000 was decided by the Supreme Court, which led to to worst decade in our history. Now the Donald is doing something again...stealing our history and making it his own.

He is good at it. It's too bad that his fans don't know the difference. I am very tired of those voters. They have been wrong about everything, never learn, are led by the nose to anything, and are still here.

brush

(53,801 posts)
11. Scary all right, but what's scarier is him asking about using nukes over and over and over.
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 02:48 AM
Aug 2016

His mind is like a kid's playing a video game where you can't just blown someone or some country up and that's it, there will be no effect on the rest of world or here.

Keep that maroon away from the White House.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
13. Well if we have nukes
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 04:05 AM
Aug 2016

Why don't we use them.
Says the orange hooter.
He would use them....
Against our west coast most likely.

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