Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to "go into" Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to "guard the vote" in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to “go into” Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to “guard the vote” in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action.

  • DevCat@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    201·
    7 months ago

    Oh goody. More felony convictions and people losing their vote and guns.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      33·
      7 months ago

      People losing popular organs isn’t a good thing either. What happens when someone looks a little too dark and gets shot.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    7 months ago

    Cool, can we get these criminal cases moving please? I’d really like to have this nutjob behind bars before election season really gets into full swing.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    I’ll be “guarding the polls” if I see any of his people that day.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
      15·
      7 months ago

      A bunch of homeless and desperate people being killed isn’t very “lol” imo. I’m also not sure why attempts at violent felonies are “lol” either.

      • Zeusbottom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Girard is one of the toughest streets in America. Those racist fucks would be so far out of their depth. If they did show up and started threatening citizens, my money is on the gangs that would invariably come to defend their turf. Sending MAGA home in a box and taking their trucks? Now that’s some delicious schadenfreude for this stupid age we live in. That’s why “lol.”

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    33·
    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to “go into” Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to “guard the vote” in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action.

    Even as he faces criminal charges over his efforts to reverse his 2020 loss, Trump attempted to flip the script and paint the winner, President Joe Biden, as a dangerous autocrat, calling him a communist, fascist and a tyrant.

    He singled out the biggest cities in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia - all Democratic strongholds at the center of the blizzard of false voter fraud claims made by Trump and his allies three years ago.

    The comments by Trump, president from 2017 to 2021, come amid growing scrutiny over his recent rhetoric on the campaign trail, which has included referring to his political enemies as “vermin,” a word some historians said echoed the language of Nazi Germany.

    In recent weeks Biden’s re-election campaign has more aggressively gone after Trump, highlighting his mounting legal troubles and likely policies it argues would hurt the economy and damage the foundations of democracy.

    Also on Saturday, Trump doubled down on comments made a few days earlier indicating he wanted to make significant changes to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, calling the healthcare insurance program used by millions of Americans “a disaster.”

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