With early voting fast approaching, the rhetoric by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has turned more ominous with a pledge to prosecute anyone who “cheats” in the election in the same way he believes they did in 2020, when he falsely claimed he won and attacked those who stood by their accurate vote tallies.

He also told a gathering of police officers last Friday that they should “watch for the voter fraud,” an apparent attempt to enlist law enforcement that would be legally dubious.

Trump has contended, without providing evidence, that he lost the 2020 election only because of cheating by Democrats, election officials and other, unspecified forces. On Saturday, Trump promised that this year those who cheat “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” should he win in November. He said he was referencing everyone from election officials to attorneys, political staffers and donors.

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    Technically? All the cheaters in 2020 were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. All zero of them. Expect the wealthy Republican ones who had houses in two states and tried to vote both.

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      Haven’t you gotten used to how he will say anything at any time, as if he were a mentally decrepit narcissist on drugs?

      Yes, he did admit that. But you see, that was a different moment in time. This is the daily hell we can expect if he wins.

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          I was in the states during his first term. Every day was like this, just relentless bullshit at all times. It was like being in Jim Jones’ compound, by the end you’d drink the flavor-ade just to shut him up.

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            Do… they still make flavor-aid?

            If trump wins I could use some. (Bad thought- think he’d drink it if I sent him some?)

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              Apparently yeah, and they do flavours catered to the Latino community now. Hibiscus, anyone?

              I don’t see hamberder flavour though. Guess he won’t be advertising it from the oval office.