Trumpist Logic at work in Arizona rally: if your clone utters a falsehood, is it then true? Much like if the Big Lie is BS, it still could be a lie, even if it’s also still BS.
Trump (not his body double) says he couldn’t have lost the 2020 presidential election because his rally in Arizona had thousands in attendance and ‘had cars that stretched 25 miles’. Trump also beckoned the staff to block the parking lot and not let attendees leave early.
WHAT TRUMP SAID: “So we lost, they say, by 10,000 and yet they flagged more than — listen to these numbers — 57,000 highly suspicious ballots for further investigation, one. 23,344 mail-in ballots were counted despite the person no longer living at that address — little, little problem. Five thousand people appear to have voted in more than one county.”
False. Trump lost the state of Arizona by about 10,500 votes, but his claim of tens of thousands of fraudulent votes is baseless. These figures are based on a report by Cyber Ninjas, a company Republicans hired to examine voting in the state.
Election officials have said that the claims the company raised are not evidence of fraud. For example, Cyber Ninjas found that tens of thousands of voters did not live at addresses recorded by a specific commercial database, but election officials have noted that college students, military personnel or people who own vacation homes could have different addresses than those listed in the database. Similarly, the company’s claims of double voting could be explained by the fact that many Arizona residents have the same name or birth year.
Moreover, Cyber Ninjas' audit showed that in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, Biden had 99 additional votes and Trump had 261 fewer votes.
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While attending Saturday's Trump rally in Arizona, Rolling Stone correspondent Steven Monacelli observed that some of the VIP guests were "too extreme" for the QAnon movement. But Monacelli reported that they were "welcomed warmly" by the Trump crowd in Arizona.
One of the QAnon influencers in attendance, Michael Protzman, has been condemned by some members of the community after his promises that John F. Kennedy Jr. would emerge in Dallas last year never materialized.
Monacelli also reported that Ron Watkins, who some believe started the QAnon movement, struggled to convince his followers that the real Donald Trump had appeared at the rally.
“I saw Trump. It’s not a body double. It’s actually him,” Watkins reportedly told his followers.
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Speaking to a crowd in Florence, AZ on Saturday night, Trump railed against the idea of the Big Lie, while once again reiterating his baseless claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him.
“They always talk about the Big Lie,” Trump said of the media. “They’re the Big Lie.”
“They refused to talk about it,” Trump added, of his baseless claims about the elections “They continue to refuse to talk about it. They say, ‘Well, it is unsubstantiated, and the Big Lie. The Big Lie. The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.”
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- Here’s where we learned about FBI interview transcripts asking about ties to members of congress. 5/
- And here’s where we learned the DoJ has a grand jury in DC investigating the funding of the big lie, trump election lawsuits, and possibly 1/6 including Trump attorneys Powell, Lin Wood, Rudy and more. 6/
- DoJ is also investigating what role trumps DoJ played in the preparation for and response to the attack on the Capitol. 8/
- Feel free to draw your own conclusions. I’m here to present facts, not argue about what they mean. ❤️❤️ END
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