Trump acknowledges he was told 2020 election lies were false in wide-ranging interview | CNN Politics
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Former President Donald Trump said in an interview that he received counsel from numerous people shortly after the 2020 election but that it was his decision to push the false claim he won the election and try to overturn the results.

There it is, plain as day. He literally just admitted to his crimes.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Oh, no… he still claimed it was rigged even after he won because he lost the popular election/ didn’t win in a landslide.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wow he really did say it.
    If he isn’t found guilty I’ll lose any faith I have remaining in our justice system.

  • the_stormcrow@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Do people really not understand that this is not a confession? The cases against Trump hinge on whether he in fact did not believe there were legitimate grounds for contesting the election. I.e., he was advocating for overturning the results but didn’t actually believe there were grounds to do so.

    Saying “hE jUsT coNFeSsEd!1!” here is kind of a smooth brained take. He has to maintain that he really and truly believed the election results should be overturned, or he’s in trouble.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      1 year ago

      You can’t be a republican without being some combination of stupid or evil.

      And I don’t just mean stupid colloquially as “people I don’t like” but more specifically as “incapable of looking at facts and drawing reasonable conclusions from them.”

      • dudinax@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        It’s weirder than that. I know people who are generally very good at reasoning based on facts except with Donnie they don’t. When caught out in a lie, he explains it with an even more unbelievable lie and they just repeat it.

        • billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          It’s really just as simple as tribalistic zero sum game politics. They want to damage the other side at whatever cost. It’s fueled by hate whipped into a frenzy by social media because it makes a lot money for social media companies to have people so engaged in hating others.

          I used to be a republican, back before GW Bush & Cheney sent me off to Iraq to go look for yellowcake lol. I also have never used Facebook, Instagram or any other social media platforms outside of Lemmy (formerly Reddit). All of that said, the transformation of the R party into what it is today has been pretty disturbing for me. Frankly it reminds me of the fanatic suicide bomber Islamic extremism you see in the Middle East and elsewhere.