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.

yuri,

Fucken Bolsonaro did the same shit and it’s looking like he’s actually gonna get prosecuted. Real shame the US government isn’t up to the high standards set by Brazil, but maybe we’ll get there someday!

NutWrench,
@NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

The difference is, if rioters try to break into the Capitol building THIS time, they’re not going to get bottled water and a pat on the ass. The Capitol police are going to be loaded for bear.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

No fucking quarter

Mastengwe,

Oh it’ll absolutely happen. We all know this already. And he won’t be held accountable for that either.

Everythingispenguins,

So he is threatening to go full Mussolini then?

homesweethomeMrL,

More and more

Gormadt,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Always has been

JesusSon,
@JesusSon@lemmy.world avatar

Hopefully, he gets the full Mussolini treatment. They will have to find an Exxon station since Esso changed its name in the 70s.

captainlezbian,

Well what’s important is that Mussolini eventually became a good fascist. I just wish he’d done it faster

SoleInvictus,

I saw your comment and my thought process went: “What?! Good fascist? The only good fascist is…is…oh. Ohhhhhh!”

RizzRustbolt,

Skip straight to the head-kicking.

FunnyUsername,
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Please try it.

Your guy isn’t in the white house this time.

badbytes,

Waaaaahhh

Andromxda,
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These morons should be greeted by the National Guard

Xtallll,
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Specifically flying elements of The Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th wing based at Warfield Air National Guard Base.

Andromxda,
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Agreed

UnderpantsWeevil,
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How many members of the National Guard are already MAGA Chuds?

Andromxda,
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You’re right, probably too many

WilderSeek,

If that happens, I don’t think the turnout will be anywhere near the same as it was before.

deft,

Same he has only lost people nothing gained. I do not think this election will be that close but that’s just me, a person from a swing state who watches neighbors remove their pro Trump shit.

Gormadt,
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It’ll only have a positive outcome if we all vote like our lives depend on it

And for a lot of us it literally does

UnderpantsWeevil,
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Trump primary turnout eclipsed his 2016 run. Conservatives are at least as hyped in 2024 as they were in 2020. Meanwhile, Liberals are trying to decide whether they need to send more bombs to kill Palestinians or start dropping shells on Columbia instead.

Looking really grim.

blazeknave,

You mean purported leftist voters are going to elect Trump and end democracy bc they’re angry about Gaza?

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

I think leftist voters are getting purged from rolls across the country and won’t have a say in the matter either way.

But voter caging, disenfranchisement, and other ratfvckery will amount to a Trump win in the same way it amounted to a Bush win in 2000 and a Nixon win in 1968.

These protests will become the excuse Democrats use to further justify purging leftist voters from their ranks, in the same way they used it to purge Greens in 2000 and Socialists in 1968. And it will result in more loses as the country marches further and further into the grip of fascist state policy.

GrundlButter,

Unfortunately it seems like that is an active sentiment, at least with a vocal minority. Intentional disengagement because they don’t like the choices they have. They would rather Trump contribute to the death of Palestinians, Ukrainians, and Americans rather than vote for the guy who contributed to the death of Palestinians.

To top it off, it’s coming largely from a trans inclusive instance, heightening the chances of putting a right wing nutjob in power right as there is an ongoing anti-trans culture war. It’s like they’re more brainwashed than the Log Cabin Republicans.

blazeknave,

100

deft,

Liberals? You think it is solely the democratic party doing this or are you saying this is what voters want? I’m confused

BigMacHole,

He OBVIOUSLY learned his lesson Last Time!

homesweethomeMrL,

Someone go kick Susan Collins in the butt

bloodfart,

It’s easy to complain about trump or pontificate about January 6 and its probable replay.

Ammunition is going to get more and more expensive from here on out, go buy some bullets you think you’ll need before they’re prohibitively expensive or unavailable.

shalafi,

Been saying the same. The fascists are here, now. Worst case, I bought a bunch of ammo while it was cheap.

MaxHardwood,

The fascists have helicopters and jets… Hope you got some big bullets

oatscoop,

In a hypothetical civil war peoole wouldn’t shoot the helicopters and jets. They’d blend with the regular population in to hide from them. They’d shoot the pilot when the pilot is out buying groceries or filling their car with gas … or kidnap their loved ones.

A civil war would be horrifying. There would be no uniforms, no front lines, and no rules of war. Both sides would go after the other’s friends and family when they can’t find or attack their enemy directly.

Mirshe,

Pretty much this. We already had a second Civil War, sorta, in the Coal Wars, and it pretty much shows how BAD it can get. Now imagine how much worse a guerilla war would be in the age where anyone can find information on pretty much anyone else with the use of a few very basic tools. They don’t need to know your schedule, just where you work. They don’t need to know who your kids are, just where they go to school. They don’t need to know how many people are in your house, just where it is - all publicly available information (or at least easily extrapolated from it).

themeatbridge,

Bring it on, motherfuckers.

Passerby6497,

How many more Babbits will trump create when he can’t tell the capital police to stand down? Or even, how many of his idiot followers are even going to show up when they got fucked and abandoned last time?

You’re a pathetic weakling Donnie, go sit the fuck down and pout to a judge.

normanwall,

Imagine dying for a billionaire because he lost a popularity contest.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6d36a668-1b9b-41b6-94f2-89b555e3ad34.jpeg

platypus_plumba,

(again)

Gormadt,
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I think the best (and a frustrating) part is that he hasn’t won the popular vote once

God damn we need to get rid of the electoral college

UnderpantsWeevil,
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How many more Babbits will trump create when he can’t tell the capital police to stand down?

Enough Ashley Babbits and its less of a problem for conservatives than for the police.

Son_of_dad,

I have no sympathy for Babbitt. Suicide by cop as far as him concerned

jkrtn,

The only story there is they got so far in before any of them were shot. She was crawling through the final barrier between the mob of insurrectionists and members of Congress and still given plenty of opportunity to cut that out.

Insurrectionists were basically allowed to run free smearing feces on the walls until there was no other option to prevent them from murdering representatives. If all cops would show that much restraint that would be rad as fuck. I guess not every protest has their off-duty buddies in the crowd, though.

lightnsfw,

The idiots weren’t even smart about it. They had access to congress offices, at the very least they should have been grabbing every scrap of intel they could lay hands on and posting it online so we could see what our representatives are really up to. If you’re going to commit treason at least make it valuable.

jkrtn,

Yeah! Too bad there is a huge difference between people who want truth and the government to be accountable (you) and people who want the government to be unaccountable but targeting groups they hate (them).

recapitated,

Don’t interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake.

homesweethomeMrL,

Careful, that was also Hillary’s strategy.

lightnsfw,

Don’t also make your own mistakes while you enemy is making theirs?

Jaysyn,
Jaysyn avatar

Oh? I thought Jan 6th was AntiFA?

By all means fuck around & find out. The Capitol police will have their submachine guns this time.

Not to mention the fact your supporters won't even show up to your trials after you abandoned them & stabbed them in the back last time, you wretched piece of shit.

Frog-Brawler,
Frog-Brawler avatar

Yea… we know. Really trying hard to not live in FL before November.

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