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.

OldWoodFrame,

I’m not worried about it if he loses. He’s just some guy. If people start to get violent on his behalf, they get arrested.

The scary part is if he wins in 2024 and has another Jan 6th (and the related effort to stay in power) after his term should have ended.

teamevil,

It’s cute that you think there will an America left if this idiot gets in again.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

If you mean the concern is not leaving in 2029 after he “wins” in 2024, I think that might be the very least of our concerns. If he gets power again, we’ll be in very dangerous terrain already.

MNByChoice,

I have strong doubts. The people most likely to “Jan 6” did. A number of them, particularly the mid-level leaders, that actually organized things, are in prison. They have not turned out in numbers since they started getting arrested.

shalafi,

Remember, the Beer Hall Putch failed. So we have nothing to worry about?

MNByChoice,

No. Not my point at all.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Per the new rules in my state, all my history books have had the pages from 1924 to 1957 torn out. So I’m assuming this part of history was just woke and soy and therefore unimportant.

Cryophilia,

Oh man, you didn’t get to read about how our good Christian American soldiers kicked the ass of the Godless Communist Germany in WW2?

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

No. But I was told by a private student group funded through the anonymous donation of particularly religious billionaires that I needed to “do my own research” on who the real bad guys were.

stringere,

Huh? What did I miss?

Traegert,

All it takes is just one person with a gun and a grudge to kill dozens.

Diplomjodler3,

But that won’t take them any closer to toppling the government. Jan. 6 could only happen because Trump actively prevented the police from doing their jobs. That won’t happen under Biden.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Trump actively prevented the police from doing their jobs

I hear Trump did the same thing at Uvalde.

CosmicTurtle0,

They got light sentences. And let’s face it, the people that are going to organize yet another insurrection are going to be duped by the same logic that Trump will pardon them or that their acts are justified.

Trump is threatening our democracy. Again.

He’s saying that if he doesn’t win, there’s going to be another insurrection.

The sad reality is that over the last four years, fascist states have put laws into place that make it legal to overturn elections for little to no reason. No oversight.

He won’t need an insurrection because he has willing accomplices.

Jaysyn,
Jaysyn avatar

They got light sentences.

False. Some of the ones that took a plea deal got light sentences. They also can no longer vote.

The ones that didn't take plea deals got sentences completely in line with the Federal Sentencing guidelines, because that is how our modern Federal courts work.

themeatbridge,

67% of sentences were below the federal guidelines as were 86% of felony sentences.

We’re talking about domestic terrorists who tried to overthrow the government.

stringere,

Yeah but for the majority of federal crimes you’re probably comparing these sentences to drug offender sentences which are much harsher because of the seriousness of the offense.

/s before crucifixion; drug sentences are ridiculous and these traitors getting anything less than a felony disqualifying them from participating in the system they tried to break is madness.

Believing someone when they say the money in the cash register is rightly yours and should be taken by force does not mean you get a pass when you rob a gas station.

Jaysyn,
Jaysyn avatar

17% difference from the norm. Picking nits.

Wojwo,

… For non-rich people.

WraithGear,
@WraithGear@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think voting was a concern when they committed to the coop. Hopefully they are not merely on house arrest after the next election

Cryophilia,

“coup”

It’s French.

Nougat,

They also can no longer vote.

You say that like it matters.

Gingerlegs,

Writers are running out of ideas for this season of jackass

Burn_The_Right,

Hey, maybe we could put Trump in a shopping cart and roll him off the roof of an abandoned casino!

homesweethomeMrL,

I mean it seems dangerous, but let’s try it. We may need a couple of takes, y’know, one for safety and that.

DarkGamer,
DarkGamer avatar

More stochastic terrorism

carl_dungeon,

Why hint? He should come right out and say it! Stop being such a cowardly loser dude, own it, tell the crazies what you want them to do in detail!

ours,

And risk his own neck? He’ll let gullible idiots take all the risk just like before. He’ll only show up if they manage to succeed.

How people are willing to follow, let alone risk their lives over this lying coward.

carl_dungeon,

Yeah but I want him to go to prison for realzies this time.

ours,

That would be fantastic and would dissuade future wanna-be dictators.

doublejay1999,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

My god the media really love him don’t they ?

They can’t quit.

IrateAnteater,

Of course. It gets the clicks. Which in turn feeds the bullshit, which they report on, and get more clicks. It’s the circle of un-life.

Monument,

Stories about Trump are so annoying because there’s a decision matrix when it comes to upvoting/downvoting, ignoring or reading.

When I see news articles about another wannabe fascist with a questionable business and personal history who made their success using family money and the exploitation of others that is completely irrelevant to me, I just downvote the story and move on.

But Trump is different because in addition to the above, I also know he is actually dangerous. While it’s true he is stupid, lacks the ability to plan things, and in a sane society would never be allowed to run for office, it is also true that he’s surrounded by smart handlers and sycophants who have helped him tilt the scales of justice, and will empower him to break every conceivable norm and law to instill himself as a dictator/useful idiot.
So I don’t want to just downvote and move on, since ignoring a threat is… well, dumb.

I hate that I have to ask myself if a story is something that I need to upvote for the sake of awareness, or if I can disregard it as more media fellatio of an undeserving scumbag for the sake of clicks.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

I feel the same as you. I’d love to be able to completely ignore this stupid clown of a man. I curse the people that gave him that stupid gameshow and I really loathe the “liberal media” that did just about nothing to vet him.

Unfortunately, he has a rabid cult following and a feckless government that seems to want to do nothing about him.

homesweethomeMrL,

They love power, yeah. The republiQan owners of corporate media are very specifically and in this case directly anti-democratic.

Here’s how: Any halfway competent democratic voice would find a way to say “That’s Wrong” somewhere in there - the headline, for example. “In further traitorous thoughts, Trump says he’d attack America again”

Remember Les Moonvees? I mean before he resigned after sexually assaulting a bunch of women.

Or CNN’s Jeff Zucker who also sexually assaulted a bunch of women and was virulently pro-Trump, even having a framed tweet from Trump on his wall thanking him?

At NBC, Zucker put Trump in front of millions of American eyeballs for 14 seasons, positioning him as a lovably irascible titan of business and effectively turning The Apprentice into a shadow campaign for the future leader of the free world.

NounsAndWords,

Oh, fuck off, the only reason it got that far on Jan 6 is that he was already in charge and refused to call in troops to immediately shut it down. I doubt Biden sits on his hands for several hours while rioters attack the Capitol.

Frog-Brawler,
Frog-Brawler avatar

I don’t expect a storm on the capital, I expect something more localized.

Kbobabob,

If Biden wins the election I can almost guarantee that there will be guards posted ahead of time.

Mirshe,

Even if he doesn’t, he’ll still be President on January 6th. I’d be surprised if he doesn’t post guards either way.

homesweethomeMrL,

Don’t forget they were specifically instructed to let the MAGAts run wild.

Miller said Trump told him: “Do whatever is necessary to protect demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights.”

And trump’s sycophant “acting directors” were in place to thwart any attempt at control of the drunken hick mob.

politico.com/…/meadows-jan-6-national-guard-trump…

itsonlygeorge,

You misspelled “threatened”.

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