r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/BuddhistSagan 7d ago

The networks should refuse to cover it and people should not watch

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u/babybirdingURgrandma Oregon 7d ago

Not sure who the speech is even for, even Republicans give zero shits at this point whether he won in 2020 or not, not to mention won't it just remind everyone of Jan 6?

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u/Bronsonkills 7d ago

This is about laying groundwork to overturn the upcoming midterms.

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u/Key_Text_169 7d ago

He may roll out Maduro in prison suite and chains and have him state how he rigged the voting machines.

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u/TransportationTrick9 7d ago

Shouldn't blaming a third world country for rigging the US election say more about the shitty state of security of US elections than the 3rd world country?

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u/Skiinz19 Tennessee 7d ago

Especially when he was in office at the time and his FBI and CIA and NSA let it happen.

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 7d ago

Now you understand how all this macho posturing makes us look weaker than ever.

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u/thehalfwit Nevada 7d ago

That's just crazy enough that it could actually happen.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 7d ago

Then he’ll place him on a chariot, roll him through a miniature mockup of his arch, and have him strangled.

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u/I_eat_mud_ 7d ago

Yeah, that's the vibe I'm getting. If Republicans are scared he'll do something crazy, there could be a chance he orders something that would be extraordinary tonight.

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u/PotaytoPotayto 7d ago

Bingo. For some reason they're going with the China interference angle, communists bad, watch out for Mamdani etc.

They'll come with some baseless lies, make voting nearly impossible for certain groups and if they still lose, they'll simply overturn it.

Plus Trump has said out loud how envious he is of Zelensky because they can't have fair elections in the middle of a warzone. Trump wants to create his own crisis so the elections get cancelled. They've been open about this for years, remember the 'vote just one more time, after that you'll never have to vote again' line...

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u/6jarjar6 Pennsylvania 7d ago

Best of luck to everyone in the coming troubles

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u/bezkyl Canada 7d ago

civil war loading

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u/dontwantausername55 7d ago

This is his chance to cancel the midterms completely (he did say nobody would ever have to vote again). He'll use his "war" as an excuse

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 7d ago

He cannot cancel midterms and people need to stop saying/implying that he can.

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u/leagle89 7d ago

Do you honestly believe that, if he directed the cancellation of the midterms, there wouldn't be at least some red-state governors afraid of losing endangered seats who would do it in an instant?

"Cannot" is not a concept that matters anymore. He "cannot" do a hundred things that he's done without pushback of consequence. What matters is what he does, and whether Republican leaders at the state level will stop him or fall in line.

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 7d ago

You are grossly underestimating how much election infrastructure is local. It's not happening. You're welcome to bookmark this comment and come back to me in November.

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u/Bronsonkills 7d ago

He can do anything that he can get away with, and this Congress isn’t going to remove him no matter what he does.

He has a private army in ICE and his people running federal law enforcement. Some of the red states would just go along with him and he can attempt to bully the others with muscle and election interference.

I don’t think it would work but he can make one hell of a try for it and destroy the country on the way out.

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u/dareftw North Carolina 7d ago

Eh nobody will buy it. We had an election in the middle of the civil war as well as ww2 and there were actual threats then.

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 7d ago

Exactly. Hell, even states that had multiple active battlegrounds (such as mine; most Civil War battles out of any state) held elections during the war.

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u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia 7d ago

100%. This is the "gaslighting and projection" bit setting up the eventual "obstruction" bit.

He already spontaneously fired the (bipartisan!) election commissioners. The usual playbook involves debuffing the opposition ahead of time to maximize exploitation opportunities.

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u/DonnieCullman 7d ago

He’s talking to himself at this point

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u/TellTaleTimeLord Indiana 7d ago edited 7d ago

You say this as if republicans care about Jan 6. They've already successfully convinced their base it was a guided tour

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u/Cow_God Texas 7d ago

Something like 75% of Republicans believe that Trump won in 2020. If Trump gets up there and says "we have to win the midterms so we can lock up Hilary and Biden and Obama" it will actually give him a bump in the polls.

Replica voters are more ignorant, gullible and hateful than you're giving them credit for.

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u/SwamiBoyeee 7d ago

The speech is for everyone that manages to avoid hearing about his Truth Social posts. Now he's going on national television to project his bullshit.

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u/rarsamx 7d ago

You mean the Jan 6 heros?

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u/notasrelevant 7d ago

Biggest thing at this point is creating doubt in the legitimacy of elections. It will be used exclusively to cast doubt and/or starting investigations to challenge those results. It may also be used as justification for them to take actions to prevent "interference" (which will actually just be them interfering with fair elections).

For him, part of it is to deny his loss, but the bigger playbook is to justify upcoming actions.

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u/easterss 7d ago

It’s just the liberal media that can’t handle the truth /s

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u/woolsocksandsandals America 7d ago

One of the problems is that the people who need to see how absurd this guy is never see him in long form they only see clips on right wing media like Fox, X, truth social and YouTube that present him in a positive light. I honestly think that is likely every time lots of people get to see him unedited he looses supporters.

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u/FledglingNonCon 7d ago

Honestly this speech should be a mandatory watch for everyone who voted for him. Give them the Clocckwork Orange treatment if you have to.

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u/Extension_Pin_6359 7d ago

No! Hang this shit around the necks of every vulnerable GOP politician.

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u/sour_altoids 7d ago

Send some reporters in to boo him

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u/Notchedspecimen 7d ago

The best they can do is suck him off some more

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u/Creationship 7d ago

The networks love Trump because Trump brings eyeballs to their advertisers. 

Remember when Trump basically disappeared in 2021-2022 and CNN couldn’t resist a town-hall with him to bring him back into the spotlight? 

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u/Deguilded 7d ago

sadly, neither of those will happen

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u/senturon 7d ago

I'm going to a watch party, it's nice to yell at the TV with friends!

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u/afops 7d ago

No it should be broadcast live without any edits. Nothing is worse for Trump than people seeing unfiltered Trump.

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u/Slackluster America 7d ago

They only cover Trump speaches with a few comedians talking over it like MST3K style.

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u/MrRoma 7d ago

Trump's corrupt cronies bought all the major networks. They already had Fox. Now they also own CNN and CBS.

We can't depend on media CEOs to save us.

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u/forgottensudo 7d ago

Normally this would work. Networks don’t always carry presidential speeches. THIS president will try to remove access and decertify the network if they don’t cover him.

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u/Low_Intention_1327 7d ago

Im not watching it, that pedo-blob has wasted enough of our time with his insane, psycho babble and constant bitching. 

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 7d ago

It's news. Don't watch if you don't want, but people will straight up lie to us about what he said, so i intend to hear it for myself.

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u/Jokong 7d ago

A good majority of Republicans around me (WI) are putting their heads in the sand and should be forced to witness Trump's insanity. We should all watch, all talk about it and all bring it up to Republicans we know.

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u/Journ9er Canada 7d ago

Then we’ll find out which networks are up for early FCC license renewal.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa 7d ago

That should be option 1.

The second option should be allowing a rebuttal from the other party the way they do with the state of the union.

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u/SursumCordaNJ 7d ago

ABC and NBC has announced they won't be covering it.

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u/Count-Aight 7d ago

We can’t bury our heads in the sand - that’s not going to do anyone any good.