• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, Trump took those grievances public, posting on his social media platform eight times within two hours about the deadline, arguing that he shouldn’t have to put up the money and worrying that he “would be forced to mortgage or sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices, and if and when I win the Appeal, they would be gone.”

    “Does that make sense? WITCH HUNT. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” the former president wrote.

    I was really hoping for the Chewbacca Defense to make an appearance towards the end there.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      8 months ago

      How does a civil suit by a state, NOT federal, against your company that has been conducting fraud in said state for YEARS, being held accountable [finally] somehow equal election interference?

      Unless you were going to use those properties to either gain some kind of advantage in the election, or to enrich yourself with foreign influence dollars post election. 🤔

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        8 months ago

        He thinks it’s election interference because anything that makes him look bad is election interference. Any narrative that he doesn’t personally control is unfair.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah I get his “thinking”, I just don’t see why it gets regurgitated by the media and everyone else without a follow up, “How?”. Or if you are going to post/print his insane rants it should be right next to the charges he is guilty of and WHY it isn’t interference at all.