Trump raves like a madman over the J6 Committee report
Moments after Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to insist that, in the 2020 presidential election “TRUMP WON, BIG!” he was back at it in another post — this time completely in all caps — demanding judges and prosecutors avenge his loss by going after his perceived enemies.
Early Friday, hours after the January 6 committee issued a damning report that recommended not only criminal charges against the former president but also bluntly stated he should not be allowed to hold public office again, the twice-impeached former president lashed out by writing, “The change in the Election was Complete & Total, with Millions of votes switched, at least 17%. TRUMP WON, BIG!“
In that vein he later raged in all caps, “SO, WE CAUGHT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THROUGH THE USE OF THE FBI & OTHER AGENCIES, CONCLUSIVELY & IRREFUTABLY CHEATING ON THE 2020 Presidential Election, AND COMPLETELY & ILLEGALLY CHANGING ITS RESULT. THIS WAS ONLY ONE OF MANY FORMS OF CHEATING, BUT FRANKLY, IT WAS A BEAUT!
He added, “THE FBI HAS NO EXCUSE, THEY WERE CAUGHT COLD, BUT THIS MUST NOT BECOME A COLD CASE. NOW WHAT? HONEST & BRAVE PROSECUTORS & JUDGES MUST STEP UP & CLEAN OUT THIS CANCER WHICH IS DESTROYING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY!”
Moments after that he was once again insisting he won in 2020, writing, “The Government of the United States changed our Election Result, and it just doesn’t get any worse than that. Just look at the damage that’s been done to our Country, and the World, in the last two years — It’s incalculable. TRUMP WON!!!”
COMMENT: He’s nutty as a shithouse mouse.
Trump’s aides knew he was losing contact with reality
A new report from New York Magazine takes a brief look into the second half of Donald Trump’s presidency, when he was becoming “isolated” due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reportedly “started to scare even those who had been willing for years to forgive anything.”
One former White House aide told NY Mag’s Olivia Nuzzi that the pandemic “really f***ed up his head.”
“He was already on that path, he was so desensitized and emboldened, and then during COVID, his interactions with real people were so cut off,” the former aide said.
The aide went on to say that while the pandemic was raging, Trump wasn’t experiencing any of its horrors. Also compounding the issue was the police killing of George Floyd, which created an “ugly cocktail” of societal upheaval — all things that “activated his worst features.”
“He lost touch with what was real, whatever limited ability he had before to connect was just gone,” the aide said, adding that “there were always weird people around him, but the more the normal people disappeared, and all he’s surrounded by are the cuckoo birds … His brain was vulnerable too because I think he was probably whatever his version of depressed is.”
“I always wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt,” the aide said, “to see the good things, and I think a lot of that was just giving myself a reason to be there.”
Trump first mentioned the new coronavirus in public on January 22, 2020, during a visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine,” he said at the time.
The populist Republican consistently downplayed the threat posed by the pandemic, saying on numerous occasions that the virus would disappear as the weather warmed.
“Typically, it will go away in April,” he said in February.
According to The Washington Post, which analyzed the president’s statements, he said 34 times that the virus would disappear on its own.
Instead, the outbreak spread rapidly, forcing state governors and local authorities across the country to impose lockdowns.
By mid-March, the US had ground to a standstill, with schools closed and links to the rest of the world drastically reduced.
The economy soon collapsed and with it one of the president’s main arguments for re-election.
During his first debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden, Trump maintained that he had built “the greatest economy in history.” But he was harking back to pre-pandemic conditions that no longer hold.