Part I: Helping MAGA Folks Face Reality.
(The first 82 steps.)
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“Experience, which neither lies nor deceives.”
Miguel Cervantes
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The Trump family - before the lying. |
IF YOU are the type of person who loves Donald Trump, let me start by assuring you that neither I nor any of the other Democrats I know have ever discussed plans to engage in gunfire if the Orange Dumpling defeats Kamala Harris in November.
Unfortunately, as was true in the wake of the 2020
election, a surprisingly large subset of the MAGA tribe is openly advocating
violence if Donald loses his third run for office. For example, we have the
bonehead Ohio state senator George Lang, of West Chester (just up the road from
where I live). Speaking at a Trump-Vance rally recently, he told the crowd, ballots might not be
enough.
“I’m afraid if we lose this [election] it’s going to take a civil war to save the country, and it will be saved. It’s the greatest experiment in the history of mankind, and if we come down to a civil war, I’m glad we got people like Bikers for Trump on our side.”
(I understand: The assassins who targeted Trump were also crazy.)
(Don’t forget the guy who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer.)
(Or the fact, Donald Trump made a joke about that.)
(Then consider the most violent rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol.)
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So, let’s begin with basic numbers. Trump may well be elected. On July 21, when President Biden exited the race, Donald had a +3.1 lead in an average of all polls. If the election had been held on July 20, he almost certainly would have won.
If you love Trump more than vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and sprinkles, you need to face foundational facts. He trailed badly (-6.7) in the same kind of polls, run by the same polling operations, as the 2020 election approached. He did lose and if you fail to grasp that, you are perilously ill-informed.
(Clearly, J.D. Vance can’t figure it out.)
Donald Trump lost four years ago; and he’s been lying ever since. He has been stirring your MAGA anger, polluting the political discourse, convincing fools like Sen. Lang that if ballots fail, bullets must prevail.
As a good American, who cherishes the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law, I have set myself the task of proving that the Mar-a-Lago man-boy whiner cannot be trusted to hold office ever again.
His Phallus Comes First.
(No pun intended.)
Consider what Cervantes said. Count the proven ways we know that Donald cannot be trusted. Start with how he treats those he purports to love.
1. Donald divorces for the first time in December 1990. He has been cheating on his first wife, Ivana, with second wife-to-be, Marla Maples. His phallus comes first, his family second.
2. Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka are still in elementary school.
(Don Sr. does later bury Ivana on one of his golf courses.)
3. In the fall of 1993, Donald lies to Marla – who is pregnant, with Tiffany. Posing as “John Miller,” his own “publicist,” Donald chats up gossip columnists via phone. “Miller” claims Donald has “three other girlfriends.” He will never marry Marla.
4. According to “Miller,” Donald is going to replace Marla with supermodel Carla Bruni.
5. Bruni will later scoff at the idea that she would have ever dated the sleazy New York business mogul.
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Bruni: Seen here NOT dating Trump. |
6. Date Unknown: Trump is said to have cheated on one of his wives, and impregnated a housekeeper working at Trump Tower New York. A doorman who claimed to know the truth was paid $30,000 to remain silent.
7. September 2005: The infamous Hollywood Access tape is recorded. Donald can be heard talking about moving on a married woman, “like a bitch.” To the general merriment of his pals aboard a tour bus, he admits, “I did try to fuck her.”
8.
He brags that he can grab women by the pussy, because when you’re rich and
famous “they just let you do it.”
9. At that point, Trump has been married to Melania, his third wife and future First Lady, for less than a year.
10. In June 2006, Trump begins a 10-month affair with Karen McDougal, a Playboy Bunny. Melania, 36, is pregnant with Barron.
11.
Trump cheats again, in July, and has sex with Stormy Daniels, a porn
star.
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Stormy Daniels. |
Names or descriptors in bold are people who know by experience that Donald J. Trump cannot be trusted. (The doorman may have been lying about the pregnant housekeeper; but we do know he got paid.)
A Long History of Lying about Elections.
12. Donald didn’t just start lying about elections in 2020. He started spreading the bullshit long ago. And heads up, MAGA folk. He’s already lying to you about how Democrats will have to cheat to win next month.
13. That’s what makes Donald most dangerous to democracy – because he’s got you folks in red baseball caps believing civil war might be required to save this great country.
14. Don’t be stupid. The Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans, and jihadists would all love to see us start shooting each other.
Polling Numbers:
How do we know Donald is lying about Democrats, and their need to cheat to win in November?
15. As of the morning of October 7, most polls show Vice President Harris with a slender lead. RealClearPolitics, which aggregates dozens of polls, has Harris up 2.2 points; 49.1 percent of voters favor Harris, 46.9 favor the orange-tinted MAGA hero. Other polling aggregators also show Trump trailing.
16. The 538 site puts Harris up 2.6 points, 48.5% to 45.9%.
17. The 538 numbers also point to danger for Donald, in that only 43.0% of Americans have a “favorable” opinion of the former president. His “unfavorable” number stands at 52.6%.
If you love Trump, however, take heart knowing that Harris’s numbers aren’t exactly stellar: favorable: 47.2%, unfavorable: 46.5%.
18. The 270toWin polling averages also put Harris ahead of the former president. She has the support of 49.6% of voters, and he trails with 46.4%.
19. The Hill puts Harris up 3.4 points, 49.8% to 46.4% for Donald.
So, we can safely say, Donald Trump is lying when he says the only way Democrats can win is by duplicity.
(Word for the day, MAGA believers.)
(As Cervantes might ask - he's been dead for centuries - what does experience show?)
20. Donald Trump really started lying about elections when he leaped aboard the racist bandwagon in 2011, and rode along for years, insisting Barack Obama was an illegitimate president. He claimed he could prove the 44th President of the United States was not born in this country.
21. Even Obama’s mother knew Trump was lying. (See #29, below.)
22. November 6, 2012 – Election Night: Twenty minutes after polls close on the West Coast, Trump has already worked himself up into a tweeting tizzy. Millions of votes are still being tallied, but he jumps to the conclusion that Obama has lost the popular vote. “He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election,” Donald fumes. “We should have a revolution in this country!”
“The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation,” he howls. “The loser one [sic]! We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!”
Obama goes on, once all the ballots are counted, to win the popular vote. No revolution required.
(It won’t be the last time Donald calls for people to march on the capital.)
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Trump claimed President Obama wasn't born in the USA. Obama won the popular vote. Twice. |
23. During his first run for office, in February 2026, Trump finishes second in the GOP caucus in Iowa. “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa,” he screams, “he stole it.”
24. Meanwhile, Candidate Donald was accused of grabbing the various body parts of 16 or 22 women, depending on how you counted.
25. To believe Donald didn’t, you had to believe 16 or 22 different women, many backed up by friends, family members, and co-workers were all lying.
26. And Donald wasn’t.
27. Years later, E. Jean Carroll, one of those accusers, will sue Donald for defamation, after he calls her a liar and says he never assaulted her. A jury hears the evidence and votes, 9-0 (it’s a civil case) in Carroll’s favor. They believe Trump assaulted Carroll and award her $5 million.
28. Trump calls Carroll an even bigger liar. A second defamation trial follows. A second jury sides with Carroll, 9-0, and awards her $83.3 million.
29. In September 2016, during his first race to the White House, Donald realizes his perceived racism is hurting him with open-minded voters. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” he finally admits.
Nine f**king words. He doesn’t explain the change in his position. He doesn’t apologize for five years of sustained lying. He only tells the truth because he thinks it will help him win the 2016 election.
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Trump's only true love. |
30. Meanwhile, Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, spends the 2016 campaign paying off Stormy, the Bunny, and the doorman who says he knows about the impregnated housekeeper.
31. At the same time, Roger Stone, a Trump ally, creates a group called “Stop the Steal.” He’s preparing to spread the lie that the 2016 election has been stolen. It turns out, of course, he doesn’t need to.
32. November 8-9, 2016 (Election Day/Night): Donald insists, while votes are being counted, that the game is “fixed” against him.
(Same as 2020)
And…
…He wins.
33. In the wee hours, on November 9, Hillary Clinton calls Trump and concedes. “We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead,” she tells supporters. He’s still lying about that to this day – saying she refused to concede for even longer than he has.
(Get that fool a calendar!)
34. November 27, 2016: President-Elect Trump gears up the lying. He insists he won the popular vote. He claims that millions voted illegally, especially in California, and says machines switched votes to Mrs. Clinton.
35. A reasonably intelligent individual would puzzle over why Democrats bothered to steal millions of votes in California, where they didn’t need them, but not 10,705 in Michigan, a state which Hillary lost by 10,704 votes.
36. Or 22,748 in Wisconsin.
37. Or 44,293 in Pennsylvania.
38. January 25, 2017: On his fifth day as president, Trump’s tells the sad story of Bernhard Langer, a golfing pro he knows. Mr. Langer so wanted his vote to count in the 2016 election, but he was denied his rights! The free press follows up on Mr. Langer and we learn that the poor pro never tried to vote.
Mainly because he wasn’t a U.S. citizen.
39. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, assures the American people that there is “no evidence” to support the new president’s claim that millions of illegal voters showed up at the polls.
40. Sen. Lindsey Graham has not yet been neutered. He agrees with Speaker Ryan. No evidence.
(Unless otherwise noted, we are never quoting Democrats.)
41. By executive order, in May 2017, Trump creates a Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity. The Committee meets twice, never issues a final report, and disbands in January 2018. No proof of massive voter fraud is ever uncovered.
42. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is vice chair in charge of the Election Integrity effort. We learn that he is famous for cleaning up all the fraud in the Sunflower State. During his years in office he secures nine whole convictions, over the course of multiple elections.
43. At least three of those nine cast votes for Donald.
The Russia Investigation in a nutshell.
You could fill a book about the lying that occurred during the Russia investigation. But we’ll keep it simple.
July 7, 2017: Trump meets with Vladimir Putin for the first time. Donald
and Vlad hit it off, and Donald tells reporters he believes Vlad when Vlad says
Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election. At that exact moment
the following
Trump advisors and/or family members know the Russians interfered.
44. Michael Cohen has been holding secret talks with the Russians.
45. General Michael T. Flynn has had secret meetings with the Russians.
46. Felix Sater is already a felon when he goes to work for Trump. He also has meetings with Russians.
47. Roger Stone meets with Russians.
48. My second favorite lie during the investigation comes from Mr. Stone. He finally admits that he did meet with a Russian who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton – but the Russian wanted $2 million. Stone later tried to tell investigators he forgot about the meeting and the request for major moola.
49. Jared Kushner met with Russians.
50. So did Donald Trump Jr.
51. Not to mention Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who had –
of course – met with
Russians.
52. Two of the Russians the folks on Team Trump met with were living in the United States at the time. Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s business partner, decided it was a good time to flee and hop a plane to Moscow.
53. Natalia Veselnitskaya also fled to Russia. And she’s never coming back. (See: #60, below.)
54. Meanwhile, Rick Gates, a Trump campaign advisor, racks up a few felonies for interfering with the investigation.
55. Gates and Cohen later cooperate with prosecutors and do not get Golden Pardons from the president.
56. Manafort, Flynn and Stone do not cooperate, and do get Golden
Pardons.
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Manafort did spend time in prison - before securing a pardon. |
57. The president himself pipes right up one day and says he has the power to pardon himself, a fundamentally anti rule-of-law position.
(Are you not getting this, dear MAGAs?)
58. Just one day after Trump and Putin meet, in the summer of 2017, The New York Times reveals a secret meeting involving Donald Jr., Jared, and Manafort – with Russians – at Trump Tower – which occurred on June 9, 2016.
59. My favorite lie from the Russia investigation comes when Don Sr. and his smarmy son, Don Jr., claim the Trump Tower meeting was all about adoption of Russian kids by good American families.
60. In reality, The New York Times has emails. Those emails show that the meeting was set up because the Russians told Don Jr. they had damaging information, regarding Hillary Clinton. Several Russians attend the meeting – including Veselnitskaya. Did we mention, she later fled to Russia?
61. Even Vladimir Putin knows Trump is lying.
“I’m the winner. Game over. Suck on that.”
What else can we do to help the MAGA faithful see understand that Donald is a practicing prevaricator?
(Second word for the day!)
62. In the summer of 2018, Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, takes a plea deal in the case of the illegal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, and the Trump Tower doorman. Cohen is the first of several Trump lawyers to get nailed for committing felonies. He gets sent to prison.
63. Trump is listed in the case as “Unindicted Co-conspirator 1.”
64. Protocol at the U.S. Department of Justice holds that a sitting president cannot be indicted unless first impeached and removed from office. Otherwise, Trump would have been indicted six years ago.
65. Next, Trump claims he knows nothing about the payoffs. It later turns out: Cohen has signed checks. Even Trump knew Trump was lying.
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Cohen made the illegal payoffs; Trump paid him back. |
Around the same time Cohen was fighting to stay out of the slammer, President Trump promised a massive “red wave” was coming in the 2018 midterms. It’s not lying to be wrong with a prediction, but we do know Democrats outpolled Republicans by 8.6 million votes in all U.S. House races combined.
66. In other words, Trump fans, don’t be dolts. Remember this. Thirty million more voters turned out than in 2014.
67. Every political advisor with a thimbleful of brains understood that turnout would be massive in the 2020 election.
(This is how both sides improved their vote totals in 2020 by more than ten million.)
(It’s basic math, dear MAGAs.)
68. Rumors of massive voter fraud are often floated, never proven. Fox News sounds the alarm again, in January 2019. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he can prove that 95,000 non-citizens are enrolled to vote in Texas, and 58,000 have! Mr. Trump fixates on that story and freaks. “These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg!” he says.
69. It turns out Paxton can’t prove diddly. Within days, county clerks in Texas find error rates of 60 percent or more in lists of “illegals” he has sent them, and they’re not close to done.
70. McClennan County has one of the shorter lists: 366 names, the “tip of the iceberg.” Clerks discover that all 366 individuals are U.S. citizens, giving Team Paxton an impressive 100% error rate.
71. Team Paxton tries to pretend none of this ever happened. But don’t worry. We will hear from him again.
72. February 2020: U.S. intelligence experts, including Joseph Maguire, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), warn Congress that the Russians are already meddling in the coming election.
73. Trump fires Maguire – his own appointee.
74. July 30, 2020: Mr. Trump floats a wildly unconstitutional proposal on Twitter. After railing at mail-in balloting, he suggests, “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
(What could go wrong if a wannabe authoritarian could delay an election?)
75. August 29: Trump warns that foreign nations (but not Russia) plan to manipulate the mail-in vote. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, headed by a new Trump-appointee, responds: “We have no information or intelligence that any nation-state threat actor is engaging in any activity to undermine the mail-in vote or ballots.”
76. October 1: Donald claims absentee votes cast for him in Wisconsin have been “dumped in the river.” In reality, three trays of mail are found by a Wisconsin roadside, including “several” absentee ballots, none from Wisconsin voters.
77. There’s not even a river.
78. It is widely reported that same October, that Pennsylvania has received 2.6 million mail-in ballot requests. That figure includes 1,794,448 Democrats, but only 693,670 Republicans. Everyone understands that when mail-in ballots are counted, Democrats are going to get a huge bump.
By law, Pennsylvania will be required to count in-person ballots first, and mail-in ballots after polls close.
“He’s just gonna say he’s a winner.”
79. October 31, 2020: We won’t know this until later, but in a secret meeting, Steve Bannon outlines the Trump plan for Election Night. Ironically, he is speaking to associates of an exiled Chinese mogul, Guo Wengui – one of whom records the discussion. Bannon sounds amused as he explains. “What Trump’s gonna do,” he laughs, “is just declare victory. Right? He’s gonna declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner.”
Bannon correctly predicts that Trump will build an early lead, as in-person votes are tallied. Biden’s strength will come later when mail-in ballots, as in Pennsylvania, are counted. “And Trump’s going to take advantage of it. That’s our strategy [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted]. He’s gonna declare himself a winner.” So, “at 10 or 11 o’clock Trump’s gonna walk in the Oval, tweet out, ‘I’m the winner. Game over. Suck on that.’”
“If Trump is losing by 10 or 11 o’clock,” Bannon adds, “it’s going to be even crazier. No, because he’s gonna sit right there and say, ‘They stole it. I’m directing the attorney general to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states.’ He’s not going out easy. If Biden is winning, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.”
80. Bannon doesn’t tell his listeners that Trump is going to win. He’s simply going to claim he did.
And, of course, he did.
81. Bannon will later be indicted in a scheme to bilk the MAGA faithful. He and three associates will collect millions in donations on the promise to help build a border wall with Mexico. No wall will ever be built, and his associates will go to jail; but Bannon dodges prison when he receives a Golden Pardon.
82. Trump really likes to pardon his cronies.
(Trump, of course, will argue he can pardon himself.)
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Bannon does go to jail later - for refusing to give testimony before Congress. |
With that, we know the stage is set for epic lying, related to Donald’s loss in the 2020 election. We will pick up there in Part II, Steps #83-84, of this massive effort to help the MAGA faithful come to their senses.
Why try? I taught American history for decades. I revere the U.S. Constitution. I’ve read it over many times.
Which, I am sure, is more than Donald.
(I definitely understand it better.)
