Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power

But, can anyone ever really prove that Trump was the president?

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It's called projecting. Everything he's ever said, done, and/or screwed up, he tries to blame others.

His supporters need to wake up and quit drinking the orange juice.

Personally I think it's just the usual incoherent right-wing worldview. Their concept of "the government" somehow doesn't include the president, the military, or law enforcement.

Trump supporters and media have been claiming undercover instigators from the FBI (I suppose the “deep state”) were planted in the crowd to egg them into violence and law-breaking.

Did that come out after or around the 2020 election? I could have sworn I read it around then but I can't seem to find anything from a few searches, everything is current. My memory may be failing but I could have sworn something similar came out around then, unless it was just people guessing. Not that Trump is overly hard to guess, he said he won the first election by more but there was never anything major after he put people on the 'illegal votes' task force.

The headline should read “TRUMP ADMITS GUILT FOR ANOTHER CRIME.”

Well you know how republicans deal with indisputable proven facts, they ignore them and make up their own story on what really happened.

He probably just got confused. You know like how old people sometimes get. Jokes aside this makes most sense to me.

Right, but it wasn't to "cover up a stolen election" it was to try and steal an election Trump lost.

It’s “debated” (and I use that term very loosely) because the current US Fascist Republican party and its voter base need to keep gaslighting the general public about what actually happened on Jan 6.

Like, any rational person knows that Jan 6 was obviously an insurrection attempt, which I like to think is the majority of the US - but apparently there’s a very vocal sect of citizens who would be pretty okay with a fascist state so long as it’s branded with a big red R.

According to the article, the meme said "January 6 will go down in history as the day the government staged a riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election.”, which is pretty comfusing if you try to look at it logically.

But of course, within Trump's fantasy world he built, it makes somewhat sense because of course it's actually "the deep state" that is behind everything..

The meme said that it was a government staged riot and that the government also knew that the election was fraudulent. Obviously, neither are true.

Trump is trying to claim that the government somehow staged 1/6 like the crowd wasn't really Trump supporters whipped up into a frenzy by him and set loose on the Capitol. Instead, it was some mixture of deep state FBI agents and antifa who conspired to make it seem like Trump did this.

It's total garbage and is easily debunked, but Trump doesn't care about the truth. That explanation would absolve him if any guilt so he'll cling to that regardless of the facts

Obama melted steel beams!

Truth is stranger than fiction

We all sat and let 9/11 happen. Guess we'll all just turn ourselves in. All 300+ million of us.

And he totally bungled the Katrina response!

Thanks, Obama.

Thanks Obama

I find it hard to imagine she's the only one. Given what he himself has said regarding attractive women, about interacting with women he's attracted to, etc. I'm not going to be surprised at all if more people come forward with allegations at some point

That's because, in their minds they see the judicial system as rigged against him.

(No judges agreed with him that the election was stolen or that he won so "obviously" they're all democrats or whatever else he calles non cult members now)

If anything, they'd point at the judges ruling in Jean Carroll's case as an example or how "broken America is".

It's super effective

came to comment this lol

Not technically, that is a confession.

He's a moron, his last two remaining brain cells are fighting for third place.

It owns the libs. They literally don't give a fuck about anything else.

Meanwhile, I would just like to feel confident that if I had to go to the hospital I could, and it wouldn't bankrupt me. But I'm getting owned so hard lol Trump MAGA lol

What amazes me is that they’ll do it again.

They're all living vicariously through his "sticking it to The Man" act. They love him because this is what they think they would do if they were in power. They cheer him getting away with it because it's exactly how they would write fan fiction about themselves (were they literate).

Obamna

I wouldn't want to jail either personally, that's actually most of the reason why I don't start insurrections

Admitting to the crime seems like the wrong way to go about that...

He won't go to jail. At best he'll be banned from running for president, but that won't happen. At worst he'll be president again. Either way, the justice system is in his favor with this judge.

Really? Then why say, out loud, that during the time you were in charge of the government, that the government staged a riot?

I mean, that's a confession, right? Does he realize it's a confession?

In a trial, the prosecution goes first and presents their full case. Then the defense gets their turn to refute anything presented by the prosecution. Even if he pleads the 5th, his lawyers will do their best to refute any presented earlier by the prosecution.

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Did you not check the article link?

It's there, just slightly cropped on the left and right edges.

I'm showing -1 on Connect, I presume due to yours.

How funny!

Who is this Jerboa and why does he say this?

I don't think it is lol. It's a rally he and his proponents called for, organized, and sought supporters for, specifically to halt the election process. Whether or not it was successful doesn't matter; I'd still get charged for robbery whether I stole money or not. It was govt supported; it was his rally, the sitting president. To me, the point was for it to be violent and messy, preventing the legal counting of votes, and giving him time to build a legal case for martial law or some other two-ply defense while he called more AGs and state officials to grift for votes to be "found" or valid ballots thrown out.

Is what the meme says supportive of him? No. Is he aware of that? Seemingly no. Is it incorrect? Also no. And that's the funniest part. It's literally calling it a riot while the most prominent images are his name on a hat, a flag, etc. Who staged this riot? I wonder...

It really isn't though. Donald Trump took to Twitter and went on camera to quite literally call his base to action. There's copious recoed of all of his actions throughout. He called for it and they came. There's really no gray area here.

Please do elaborate.

You're amazingly uninformed.

"But Trump very specifically said to protest peacefully during his speech that day."

No, he told them they have to "fight like hell" and sent them to the capitol. The speech was on national television. Wake the hell up.

I was a Democrat supporter before Trump came along.

No you were not, astroturfing sockpuppet.

ROFL imagine thinking the establishment hates Trump. Trump family is OLD OLD OLD MONEY, they are part of the establishment, kiddie-fucking Epstein clients and all.

The fact that he convinced you he was anti-establishment just shows that he's a decent con man. I can't think of one fucking scrap of evidence that's he's anti-establishment, and he sure did pass those tax cuts for the rich and run that money printer while in office (even in 2019, pre-pandemic), and he sure did let those Jan 6 people rot in jail.

So if you're STILL thinking he's anti-establishment I have a bridge to sell you.

When saw how united and unfair the portrayal of the man was by democrats and mass media, I realized the extent of corruption in the system, and more was slowly revealed over the next decade.

Yeah, all the free advertising sure was diabolical.

I imagine that's why he wanted to end democracy as an institution in the US: because of how unfairly he was treated! It makes total sense when you put it that way!

It really it everyone else's fault that he attempted a fascist coup. Thanks for explaining it!

I don't think a billionaire "coastal elite" could ever be described as an outsider or not part of the establishment.

Jan 6 was a handful of people doing something stupid.

We all saw the video. Quit lying for the Orange Turd Idol.

Man if your name isn't Dmitry or Boris and you're not getting paid by the troll farm, then this is just sad.

My view of trump was shaped by the incredibly stupid and asinine things he says on his own on television with no prompting, not any sort of portrayal by the media.

. I remember reading that there were opportunities to shore up the area...but the democrats declined.

You remember reading...lies. You just reinforced the well known stereotype that conservatives love to be lied to. Qtards, Pizzatards, Birthertards, Sandyhooktards, Start the Steal tards, etc, and now you, all prove the stereotype.

My take on all of this has always been that the establishment hates Trump, sees him as a legitimate threat to their way of doing business,

My take on all this is that Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump and the rest of the billionaire elites tricked you and into giving them another gigantic GOP tax cut. Yet Again.

I realized the extent of corruption in the system,

Then why did you vote for the person that Bernie Sanders said over and over is "the most corrupt president in American history".

https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/photos/a.324119347643076/2791833347538318/?type=3

[Sanders: Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in history and he must be held accountable.]

You voted FOR the most corrupt president in American history. You voted FOR giving a huge mountain of money to the billionaire elites and establishment. You voted FOR anti-American neofascism.

But Trump very specifically said to protest peacefully during his speech that day.

To protest what? Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump pre-planned his Start the Steal Conspiracy before the election.

Reminder that Steve Bannon frankly confessed Trump's Start the Steal conspiracy plans to a group of Trump insiders before the election.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.

Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]

STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.

He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.

Finally. Someone calling those darned warmongering Democrats and praising the brave Republicans that tried so super duper hard to stand against the establishment. I salute you, brave keyboard warrior o7

I'm sure history will remember your bravery

This couldn't be a more astroturfed comment if it tried. This reads like it came directly from the mouth of Steve Bannon.

Well said. I’m not exactly fan of Trump, but it’s abundantly clear the establishment hates him. Every news outlet and social media campaign paints him negatively no matter what he does. Kamala Harris said she would not take the Covid shot because at that point it was associated with Trump, and we all saw how that changed after they took the Presidency. Every person they show supporting him is portrayed as either a dumb hillbilly and a white supremacist. It’s cartoonish, and for the established circles of power to make such over-the-top propaganda is a dead giveaway more than anything else that they want him gone.