I guess Trump just tuned into CNN for the first time in months and heard the term “The Big Lie” so he thought he’d make like Orwell and turn it around. The branding genius always steals his brilliant slogans. “Make American Great Again”, “Law and Order president”, “America First” etc, etc are all lifted from others.
Former President Donald Trump claims to believe it’s only a matter of time before he will be reinstated as commander in, chief, apparently by way of a phony “recount” in Arizona, in which a private firm hired by Republicans is trying to find a way to nullify the 2020 election results in the state.
In video footage shot last week, Trump can be heard apparently telling supporters at his Florida resort that the 2020 election results might be overturned due to the potential findings of the firm “Cyber Ninjas,” which has been enlisted by Republican leaders in the Arizona State Senate to audit the election results in Maricopa County, the state’s major population center.
“Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes,” Trump declared in a video that was posted to YouTube, allegedly shot last Wednesday evening.
“After that, we’ll watch Pennsylvania, and you watch Georgia, then you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire. They found a lot of votes up in New Hampshire just now … You saw that?” Trump continued. “This was a rigged election, everybody knows it, and we’re going to be watching it very closely,” he added.
One pro-Trump pundit, who works for the far-right media company Real America’s Voice and goes by “Dr. Gina” on Twitter, wrote on Monday that she met with Trump over the weekend and reports that the former president is still obsessing over his defeat in the 2020 election. “I saw 45 this weekend & he stated that he doesn’t want to talk about ’22 or ’24 until 2020 is resolved TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!” Dr. Gina tweeted.
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On Monday morning, former Trump sent out a statement declaring that his supporters should begin calling the 2020 election results “THE BIG LIE,” attempting to hijack the phrase from those who have used it to describe Trump’s false claims of election fraud. In a callback to the pseudo-official style of his now-canceled Twitter account, Trump wrote, “The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!” in a press release from his Save America PAC.
It’s all so very, very stupid. But I can see the Republicans gleefully throwing around “The Big Lie” thinking they are being very clever. I guess we’ll all say now and start arguing about what it means. Which gives me a headache.