Subj : Re: Our President doesn't
To   : jimmylogan
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Nov 21 2025 09:26:44

  Re: Re: Our President doesn't
  By: jimmylogan to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Nov 20 2025 13:15:41

 > You're right that he didn't respect the 2020 results - but that's
 > not new in politics. We've had candidates dispute outcomes before
 > (think "hanging chads"), so it's not unique to him.
 > 
 > 
 > As for "inciting an insurrection," I'm not personally convinced
 > he intended for anything violent to happen. I wasn't there,
 > and none of us really know the mindset of every person who showed
 > up or what pushed them individually. That part is still debated
 > and may be for a long time.
 
He respected them as much as HRC did in 2016.  While he was *much* more vocal
about it, she did just as much to undermine the process by introducing the
"collusion" boogey-man into the public mind.
 
The issue I have with him and 1/6 is real simple.  It really doesn't matter
what he told the crowd.  The fact that he decided to hold a "loser's rally" on
the day that the votes were being certified, in the same city, *and* supposedly (by his own admission) asked for more police because he thought it might get
violent, is more than enough for me.  The fact that he continues to deny any
culpability for what happened is just icing.
 
If he'd held his rally at Mara Lago and the violence in DC still happened,
maybe it isn't his fault.  If he'd dome *nothing* on that day, as some of his
adivisors were suggesting he should do, maybe it isn't his fault.  Holding a
rally on the same day, in the same city -- something that even sore losers HRC
and Gore didn't do -- makes it something he at the very least shares blame for.
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