During a Southern border press conference in Arizona, Donald Trump admitted that they didn’t quite get enough votes to win the 2020 election. Here are my thoughts.
I’m normally the type of person that makes decisions based on “feelings in my gut,” and emotions over logic. However, because this could possibly be the most important news of the week, I decided to think before I react.
So I sat down and thought about possible explanations besides Trump just deciding to come clean. I came up with two scenarios that could explain what happened in this instance. But first, what he said.
What he said and how he said it
Trump’s campaign advisors have been hounding him to be nicer, less mean, not so insane, and a little more… human-like. We’ve seen evidence of this recently when a reporter asked Trump about Obama. Trump talked about Obama’s foreign trade policies and told the reporter he thought Obama was “nice” and said he “respects” him because he and Michelle were always nice to Trump and Melania (this was before their speeches at the DNC).
Another example was when Trump was answering questions from a reporter about policy and he spoke only about policy in a respectful tone. He didn’t attack the reporter, mispronounce Kamala’s name, or call anyone a Communist, Socialist, Marxist, or Fascist, he didn’t even attack the reporter.
Perhaps he decided to stop sounding like a crazy conspiracy theorist, ranting about Italian satellites or Jewish space lasers switching votes. The second possibility is his old age and his chronic “verbal diarrhea.”
Think about it. Trump lies constantly. Therefore, every time he speaks he has to remember every lie he’s ever told, and then adjust what he’s saying so that it doesn’t contradict any statements from the past that are all tangled up in his brain like an intricate, sticky web of lies. That can’t be easy! Especially when cognitive decline is added to the mix. Maybe he just “glitched” and accidentally told the truth?
He Admitted It To White House Staff The First Time
Of course, if I choose not to think logically about every possible explanation for why he said it—or even further into the rabbit hole—what he actually meant by it, then it’s as simple as this: Donald Trump admitted that he lost the 2020 election by not getting “quite enough votes” to get over the finish line. And that brings me to the most interesting (to me, anyway) part of this post.
What I said on January 6th, 2021.
As I watched Trump supporters beat police officers and ransack the Capitol as they attempted to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win, one thought kept popping into my head over and over.
Later, as those same supporters were being sentenced to prison time—some getting 20 years for sedition—that same thought was present. There’s a simple phrase that will explain it all, but I actually want to explain it.
Fine. I’ll still tell you what that simple phrase is.
“Chickens coming home to roost”
After January 6th and throughout the years following the Capitol attack, The Big Lie continued. Trump lied, Republican members of Congress lied, Conservative pundits lied, and Republican candidates for local and state office lied. In fact, it became a litmus test for Republicans. They would twist themselves into knots in media interviews when the anchor asked, “Did Joe Biden win the election?” “Is Joe Biden the legitimate President?”
Each time Trump’s supporters would harass people or issue death threats, when Paul Pelosi had his skull crushed in by a hammer, when Shaye and Ruby Moss were run out of their homes and suffered consistent harassment for years, the cause was the same: 2020 election lies.
That period of time was pure insanity in politics as our democracy died a slow, painful death. One lie at a time. Thousands of mules carried ballots, Krakens were released, and all manner of crazy sh!t went down for months after the 2020 election.
Loyalty
Donald Trump’s supporters have been loyal to him through it all. They didn’t care if they were ridiculed or yelled at. They gave him the last few pennies in their savings accounts so that he could file lawsuit after lawsuit fighting back against the “massive fraud” that resulted in an election and the Presidency being “stolen” from him.
I’ve often said that it wouldn’t matter how many Republicans in Congress told the truth. Attorney General Bill Barr was once a fan favorite for protecting Trump from the Russia investigation and impeachment, but when he said the election fraud allegations were “bullshit” during a televised press conference, he immediately became a RINO (Republican in name only). That is the fate that awaited any Republican with enough courage or actual principles to tell the truth. You will be labeled a RINO and be forever banished from the Republican party.
Lives Ruined
Marriages have ended in divorce, family members have stopped speaking, and once close friends grew apart. Lives ruined because of Donald Trump and his lies (among many other things). When you take into account all of the damage and loss—relationships, families, bank accounts, mental health, and the freedom of those in prison, it doesn’t take much effort to imagine how Donald Trump’s supporters would react to finding out that he had been lying to them the entire time.
Only Donald Trump can admit his lies in order for his supporters to accept reality. MAGA wears a tool belt stocked with excuses ready to be whipped out at any attempt to expose them to reality: FAKE NEWS! DEEPFAKE! RINO! AI! LIES! I DON’T TRUST SCIENCE! VACCINE DEATHS! Sorry, I got carried away and mentioned a few of their tools that wouldn’t apply to this particular scenario.
Chickens are a’Roostin’
I am now going to end this post by tying it all together (I’ll probably add more to this post later). When you lie to someone and they trust you—so much so that they give up everything, including their freedom (and in one January 6th rioter’s case, their life), to defend you and fight off anyone who attacks you—and then they find out you had betrayed them by lying to them, the hatred and violence that they had been directing towards others will be directed at you tenfold.
