Trump Hints Another January 6 Could Happen If He Loses the Election

The former president made multiple chilling warnings during an interview with Time magazine.

Donald Trump hasn’t quite let go of the possibility of utilizing mob violence if he loses the next election.

In a sprawling interview for https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/, Trump hinted that leveraging political violence to achieve his end goals was still on the table.

“If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he told Time. “It always depends on the fairness of the election.”

And from Trump’s perspective, that’s winning rhetoric. According to him, his incendiary comments supporting a mob mentality, his early warnings of forthcoming abuses of power, and his threats to be a dictator on “day one” are only inching him closer to the White House. “I think a lot of people like it,” Trump told Time.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

so his supporters are gonna take another shit in the capital building, go to jail by the hundreds, one will get shot and a Democrat still gets elected.

k.

UncleTron,

These Trumpsters are getting out of hand, huh fellas?

TheRedSpade,

Getting?

reverendsteveii,

Hints another Jan 6 could happen

Calls for violence if he loses election

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

BadmanDan,

Well maybe he should tell his supporters not to do that again….

rickyrigatoni,

Yeah. I really doubt congress is going to fuck around next time. They’ll be deploying the national guard and shooting on sight. Even other GOP members were pissed about the insurrection and were targeted by insurrectionists.

eldavi,

Even other GOP members were pissed about the insurrection and were targeted by insurrectionists.

and then turned around and acted like it was nbd

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

This time, they might actually treat it as if they were “antifa” or BLM, even.

IvanOverdrive,

Another Jan. 6? Like the chaos that is currently unfolding from the baker’s dozen of MAGA protestors outside the courthouse?

clay_pidgin,

I haven’t read about any chaos, though I don’t doubt it. What have you heard about?

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

I think it’s a joke about how donnie is butthurt because hardly anyone showed up for his court cases to protest how unfair it all is.

clay_pidgin,

Ah, now that I HAD heard early on.

toiletobserver,

May the capital police show far less restraint if next time happens.

Stern,
@Stern@lemmy.world avatar

The only reason it happened the first time is because he was able to allow it to happen… but he ain’t the one in the oval office now.

Furbag,

Right. Biden would have immediately deployed the national guard in response to a march on the Capitol. Trump intentionally did not, he encouraged the mob and then watched the whole thing unfold on television and didn’t lift a finger.

The next group of MAGA idiots who show up to pull a Jan 6 2.0 will get turned away by authorities actually equipped to handle them.

eldavi,

The next group of MAGA idiots who show up to pull a Jan 6 2.0 will get turned away by authorities actually equipped to handle them.

i wonder if they’ll get smarter w 2.0 and go after unguarded but key pieces of infrastructure like some did in the 2022 elections with power stations.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

If they get smarter they’ll see that everyone in 1.0 got thrown under the bus and they won’t show up for 2.0

Furbag,

Ultimately I don’t think that will matter much. Acts of domestic terrorism or sabotage won’t affect the outcome of the executive maintaining power and are unlikely to garner much sympathy. Trump wanted to make sure he won by attacking the weakest points of the electoral system - slates of false electors to sow doubt and discord, and when that failed, inciting a mob to interrupt the certification. I think both of those points are still vulnerable to attack, but there are a lot more eyes on it now after 2020. Trump is already on trial for trying to overturn the election, and Biden has no reason to allow an armed mob of crazies storm the Capitol, win or lose.

Ultragigagigantic,
@Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world avatar

Republicans promising to install an authoritarian government?

When will the democratic party drop gun control given this imminent threat?

SocialistRA.org

corsicanguppy,

False dilemma.

Zacryon,

Thank you for pointing it out.

njm1314,

This is why we all should arm ourselves heavily. And be ready to fight back.

corsicanguppy,

When I worked for the country I found I’m a pretty decent shot with what you’d’ve called an m16a3 . I had a couple of really great shooty-powpow days.

You know what I’d do if jan6 got crazy again?

Continue to stay away. I have no business being there. I’m not some gung-ho halfwit, passable shot or no.

Sizzler,

Well said.

PsychedSy,

The point isn’t to go out, it’s to have a shooty boi or two at home in case others decide to go out.

reverendsteveii,

if I were a Trumper trying to learn from Jan 6 the lesson I’d learn is that the mob was all in one place and disorganized, which made them easy to find and target, easy to defend against, and very susceptible to morale issues as soon as they got pushback (watch the Ashley Babbit video. As FA turns to FO, pay attention to the mood of the crowd. The fact is there were enough of them close enough that they could have easily overwhelmed the lone guard, but when they realized that this was real life where people who get shot die they lost any will to proceed). Small, organized teams spread out all over the country would be very difficult to defend against, could have goals beyond just disrupting a single vote like kidnapping legislators or knocking out utilities, and could have trained, organized people who are actually ready and willing to put their lives on the line. Don’t think in terms of getting ready for another Jan 6. Jan 6 happened and is over. Think in terms of what the people who did Jan 6 will learn from their failure, and organize around that.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Small, organized teams spread out all over the country would be very difficult to defend against

Small organized teams leave a trail and it’s much harder for those arranging things to claim ignorance. The disorganization was so they could claim they had “no idea this would happen”.

The people smart enough to organize something are smart enough to keep their hands off of any direct organizing.

reverendsteveii,

remember that their plan involves having an inside guy in the white house who’s capable of just declaring them innocent of any and all crimes

eran_morad,

This fuckstick needs to be thrown into a hole for the rest of his life.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

like just, over and over for 10 hours a day? that’d be pretty funny.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ll do my part!

vimdiesel,

This time we’ll be ready for his sorry ass.

Sam_Bass,

If he tries it might cost him more than money

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Not really, because he’s not in power this time.

He can’t hold a protest in DC without approval and given how 1/6 turned out, nobody will give him approval if he loses.

mokus,

And this time around he can’t prevent deployment of the national guard

Jimmyeatsausage,

I mean, he could tweet about how people should show up anyway. I don’t know if it would be effective or not, but knowing how rabid his fans are, it could lead to something. This is just more of his plausible deniablitity shtick. “Oh, a juror I don’t like very much lives here. It sure would be a shame if a bunch of folks harassed or threatened them into doing what I want”

Dude lost 4 years ago and still has a fanatical base that swears it didn’t happen.

baru,

I mean, he could tweet about how people should show up anyway

Last time Trump ensured that police and so on couldn’t prepare. Plus denied any assistance on the day. That alone is a huge difference.

Jimmyeatsausage,

I hope so. The alternative is they show up armed this time.

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, and then you get stopped and arrested on gun charges before you even get there.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

It might be good if something like that were to happen - if thousands and thousands of them were to get arrested on the way to some dumb insurrection that donnie egged on long before they are able to get anyone killed. Get more of them in the prison system to help cripple their movement.

Unfortunately, last time a lot them were simply allowed to go home.

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Yes and then where hunted down and arrested later on. 600+ convictions is not nothing.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

True. I wonder how many they missed, but yes.

It’s interesting to note the difference between the way an insurrection is treated vs. the way someone selling loose cigarettes…

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

I believe there is a whole website dedicated to jan6 people that the FBI would like to talk to.

So if you have time, scroll there and if you know one of the people, the FBI has a contact us form.

www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence-images

Well over 500 people still on the list. That including the 600+ convictions means over a thousand people wanted. I would imagine that half these peoe could be found if ran through a dmv database check.

nycki,

I know what the headline actually means but i’m choosing to believe that donny just found out about calendars.

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