Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Bannon: Trump Was Going To Declare Victory Regardless

 

A leaked audio obtained by Mother Jones has fascist flotsam Steve Bannon previewing the plan for the Malignant Loser to declare victory and stay in office, no matter what the voters decided:

On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing. Trump knew that the slow counting of Democratic-leaning mail-in ballots meant the returns would show early leads for him in key states. His “strategy” was to use this fact to assert that he had won, while claiming that the inevitable shifts in vote totals toward Joe Biden must be the result of fraud, Bannon explained.

 

Of course, the Malignant Loser did, in fact, follow Bannon's script, as laid out on October 31:

The nearly hour-long audio obtained by Mother Jones is new evidence that Trump’s late-night diatribe—which came a few hours later than Bannon had anticipated—followed a preexisting plan to lie to Americans about the election results in a bid to hold onto power. The new recording stands out for the striking candor and detail with which Bannon described a scheme to use lies to subvert democracy. Bannon also predicted that Trump’s false declaration of victory would lead to widespread political violence, along with “crazy” efforts by Trump to stay in office. Bannon and his associates laughed about those scenarios at various points in the recording.

"Lock them up!  Lock them up!"

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