Trump was desperate to win the presidential election. He tried to steal Biden’s votes by coercing “every level of government:” the courts, state legislatures, secretaries of state, governors, the Department of Justice, congressmen, senators, and VP Pence. Trump lost 61 lawsuits and spent $50 million-after the election-for propaganda to persuade people to give him the presidency. I doubt any sitting president candidate has been that desperate.
It was because he was desperate and legal methods failed that Trump finally began seriously planning a violent takeover of the United States:
…he reportedly talked with attorney Sidney Powell and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn about trying to impose martial law in states he lost in order to hold new elections in the hopes that he could remain president. (Fortunately, the U.S. Army issued a statement publicly challenging the commander-in-chief.)
Many people had said Trump was stupid to incite an insurrection that destroyed his chances of being president four years later, but my suspicion is that Trump thought this was his last chance to be president. Remember, people didn’t know him well 4 years ago. When he ran for president I knew next to nothing about Trump other than he flaunted wealth, married many women, and often said rude things to people. As his presidency progressed and his fame dramatically increased naturally people wanted to find out more about him.
The Global Village found out he’s been molesting underage girls since the 1970s. That was very bad news for Trump and his chances of getting re-elected. He was accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl. Dozens of women said he sexually assaulted them.
Many books were written about Trump’s con-artist career. He posed as a talented businessman on the Apprentice show, but he was a bad businessman. His family gave him $413 million but he was so bad at business at one point he lost all his money. Marla Maples told biographer Michael D’Antonio she was walking with Trump one day and Trump pointed to a homeless man and said that the homeless man had more money than he did.
As election day approached Trump knew the Global Village had unmasked him. He knew he still fooled some people, but those of us who had learned his true nature were increasing-rapidly. He knew many voters viewed him as a pedophile, rapist, murderer, con-artist, racist who is bad at business, ruined the economy, and created cold-hearted policies that put crying minority children in cages and resulted in hundreds of thousands of preventable coronavirus deaths. We would not vote for him in 2020 or 2024 and our numbers would increase every year, so Trump viewed the last election as his last chance to gain a second term.
I believe that’s why he was so desperate to remain president he tried to steal Biden’s presidency, first by conning voters and coercing government workers, and when that failed leading a terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump knew that if he waited four years and was lucky enough to escape jail that more books would reveal his depravity, more blogs would unmask him, more members of the Global Village would break ties with him, and he would have even less votes than during 2020. His life is a series of one train wreck after another, and no matter how much Trump tries to delude himself I believe he has moments of clarity when he knows the truth about himself. Trump is fascinated by the Global Village and he’s always trying to gain support from the Village, but he doesn’t respect villagers and he certainly doesn’t care about us.
He sees the Village as a supply to feed his ego or to provide him with material things such as business deals. He makes comments to fool villagers into believing he respects and cares for them, but his actions show the opposite. You see, when the train wreck happens the train is full of people who trusted him and there are people around the train who get hurt also. My advice is when Trump says, “All aboard!” politely decline a train ticket and walk in the opposite direction.