"Through public remarks, Truth Social screeds and more than 100 preemptive lawsuits, Donald Trump is assembling a detailed catalog of excuses for rejecting the results of the 2024 election — if he loses,” Axios reports.

“The Trump-aligned efforts to overturn the 2020 election — both overtly and covertly, peacefully then violently — shocked the American public. No one should be surprised this time around.”

“The former president, who risks jail time and more criminal trials if he loses, has expanded his range of baseless attacks on U.S. voting procedures in recent weeks and months.”

    • Jagger2097@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Very little of this is a crime. The system was built by people who felt shame, Trump does not and is therefore immune to this backlash as his followers believe his lies.

    • Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Hopefully it’s to allow more evidence to pile up. If he loses and goes nuclear, that’ll be all they need. So maybe they’re giving him enough water to sink himself in.

    • drdiddlybadger@pawb.social
      13·
      2 months ago

      Yeah this isn’t st all a good sign for them. They don’t believe in mandates so this isn’t to get a lead and they are lazy, they wouldn’t do this much if they didn’t absolutely think they would need it.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      This has been their plan for 4+ years, regardless of polls. They’ve been actively trying to infiltrate elections bureaucracy with MAGA zealots for that long.

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 months ago

    Can we not elect any more Cluster B personality disorders going forward? Please.

    Their hopelessly entrenched in an alternative reality basic approach to the world is toxic enough on the regular lives scale. With the presidency we get crap like this.

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    322·
    2 months ago

    Do any of us care about his bullshit? No.

    I hate that I have to read news articles about how bullshit claims will wend their way through courts for years while we continue to give attention to a shouting spray tan.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Yes, quite a lot of us care about the country not descending into a fascist dictatorship and not getting murdered by the state in a purge, actually.

    • ValorieAF [she/her]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Are you dense? A political party is openly planning a fascist takeover of the government. Why shouldn’t EVERYONE care about that?

      • andyburke@fedia.io
        15·
        2 months ago

        I care about that. What I don’t care about are fearmongering articles about his fever dreams that get reported like dire prognostications.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      81·
      2 months ago

      Once he gets past this election he’ll settle down and start doing some things for the public, like helping build houses or whatever.

      • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m going to press X for doubt

        I’m hopeful he does… but I’m not going to be surprised when he doesn’t.