November 11, 2023

"When you’re president and you’ve done a good job and you’re popular, you don’t go after them so you can win an election."

"They’ve done indictments in order to win an election. They call it weaponization. But yeah they have done something that allows the next party, I mean if somebody, if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them, mostly they would be out of business. They’d be out. They’d be out of the election."

Said Donald Trump, quoted in a Guardian article with a title that seems to have been written by someone pretending not to understand sarcasm: "Trump suggests he would use FBI to go after political rivals if elected in 2024 Trump said: 'If I happen to be president and I see somebody doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them.'"

62 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...

"Written by someone pretending not to understand sarcasm"

Or a moron. They let morons write these things, now, y'know.

Kevin said...

The idea that “Trump can’t be allowed to do what we’ve been doing” is the biggest reason he might be re-elected to do it.

Kate said...

A summary of Trump's point:

Biden can't win unless he cheats. He's sent the force of the government after me as his only path to victory. He and the Democrats aren't considering that, with the genie out, the next president can do the same to them.

TDS blocks people's ears and short circuits their reason.

Oso Negro said...

The country needs for conservatives to beat progressives like rented mules just so they know how it feels.

Rusty said...

Hey. It's working for Democrats. Why not. That's the way they play the game now.

iowan2 said...

Been going on for what, 7+ years?

The media takes Trump literally, not seriously.

For their team, they take them seriously, not literally.

Trump is a master communicator. Painting an entire picture, is just a few words. You may think he his long winded, but "the Nut" of the messages is just a few words.

Serving two purposes, when he does it right. . . gets the message just right, and inflames his enemies enough they will repeat HIS MESSAGE to a much wider audience. Trump gets his enemies to be his Advertising agency.



Dave Begley said...

Tucker Carlson has the interview of Douglass Mackey. He’s going to federal prison for posting a joke meme about Hillary. Jury in Brooklyn.

The Biden DOJ arrests and convicts political opponents.

mishu said...

Yeah, I don't think they care whether the statement is sarcastic. They just want their readership to use it as another reason to say they have the vapors over what Donald Trump said. "Fiddle-dee-dee! That Donald Trump..."

Bob Boyd said...

Trump suggests he would use FBI to go after political rivals if elected in 2024

Trump doesn't have the use of the FBI.
But this gives you an idea of how it would be portrayed in the media if Trump, or anybody else, tried to reform the FBI.

Fredrick said...

"If somebody " also means anyone else following Biden's example, but that's not something European press wants pointed out.

gilbar said...

How's the saying go?
Take him seriously, not literally?

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Trump cannot speak clearly. WFT?

when it comes to speaking properly, and clearly - He is an embarrassment.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Trump wants to hand it to the D-crooks. That's all I can make of this.

Mary Beth said...

He's trying to get them to see how wrong it all is by saying, "What if I did this?". A reasonable, intelligent person should think, "If I don't want him to do it, I should want Biden not to do it either." But they don't. They just get in a panic thinking Trump is going to do the bad things.

If I can't trust the news to report this right, how can I trust them to get the complicated stuff right?

AMDG said...

So if Trump wins he is stating that he will commit an impeachable offense?

Imagine Press Secretary Laura Loomer and VP MTG defending this.

Rich said...

Decompensation at its finest.

They aren’t indicting Tump in the middle of his campaign — he’s campaigning in the middle of their indictments.

wendybar said...

AMDG said...
So if Trump wins he is stating that he will commit an impeachable offense?

Imagine Press Secretary Laura Loomer and VP MTG defending this.

11/11/23, 8:13 AM

We don't have to. The media, the Progressives and the Rinos are already defending it. It is happening before your very eyes, and you don't seem to care.

Oligonicella said...

Trump said: 'If I happen to be president and I see somebody doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them.'"

That is a lie. When you elide you're supposed to indicate you did. If not, you simply lied about what was said. By dropping parts of what he said they changed the meaning because they do not agree with him politically.

How convenient the part they purposefully omitted was "But yeah they have done something that allows the next party, I mean if somebody,", the actual crux of his statement.

Then they falsely apply a period to cut off "mostly they would be out of business. They’d be out. They’d be out of the election."

The Guardian is and has always been scum. They're still a grocery store wire rack rag.

Oligonicella said...

AMDG:
So if Trump wins he is stating that he will commit an impeachable offense?

No, that's what the lie said about him. He said no such thing.

narciso said...

its pretty crystal clear what he said unless you're a jackass, of course when you have a regime that is of for and about criminals they take exception,

Iman said...

Three years of moronic lefty governance and the current surplus of d-baggers trying to characterize Israel as the “bad guys” isn’t enough for you, America?

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Trump is saying "I'm going to do to you - what you are doing to me." But in gibberish.

Yo Trump - Don't say it - JUST F*ING DO IT. He doesn't need to go after enemies... he has actual criminals named Biden and Hillary - to go after. But he won't. Because he is a dumb-ass.

btw- You don't tell the left your plans. You keep your cards close to your chest and you keep your promises.
BTW - just another reminder that Trump broke his promise to go after "Private Server for Clinton-Cash (Including Russian money) Hillary" - Then she produced the BS paid for Steele Dossier and the FBI and the Maddow media leftists(D) used it to Russia Russia Russia Trump for 3+ years. Bogging him down.

Just another reminder that---

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

John henry said...

Amdg

What do you see as the impeachable offense?

John Henry

John henry said...

If I can't trust the news to report this right, how can I trust them to get the complicated stuff right

That's a BINGO!

But nothing new. We haven't been able to trust the press since Gutenberg

John Henry

Big Mike said...

If Trump had a scintilla of political common sense he would never have phrased himself this way. His economic policies are great; his mouth not so much.

Michael K said...

Blogger mishu said...

Yeah, I don't think they care whether the statement is sarcastic. They just want their readership to use it as another reason to say they have the vapors over what Donald Trump said.


Exactly.

Big Mike said...

Dave Begley said…

The Biden DOJ arrests and convicts political opponents.


As New York Mayor Eric Adams has found out, now that he’s had the temerity to criticize Biden’s Open Borders policy. Democrats like their black Democrat politicians, but they do have to know their place.

rcocean said...

They've been lying about Trump for 7 years. They misquote him, treat sarcasm, irony, and humor as literal serious statements, and take things out of context. And put the worst interpetation possible on anything he says.

Again, the whole point of MSM reporting on TRump is to ALWAYS show him in the worst light, and use anything he says or does to attack him.

They've been this since august 2015, and they aren't going to stop.

rcocean said...

Biden's Stalinist DOJ and Wray's Gestapo have been abusing their authority and trying to destroy Pro-lifers, J6 protesters, and Trump for 3 years now.

The question is how to stop them from doing it. The problem is GOPe and the fucking Republican moderates and "Never trumpers" don't mind the Democrats destroying the Republican opposition as long as the D's leave them alone. They're losers. And don't have the guts to come out as Democrats.

Look at Christie, Haley, and DeSantis. Not one of them is upset at Biden trying to destroy Trump through "Lawfare". So, if Biden wants to pick them off, they'll have nothing to say.

Rusty said...

But, Mike, he gets his point accross.

Joe Smith said...

If Trump gets elected, he has free reign as far as I am concerned.

traditionalguy said...

Arrogant Orange Man speaks truth again. HOW DARE HE! Arrest that man.

Trump has it easy this time. At least until 3:00AM vote counters stuff the ballot boxes. The Dems are 100% in favor of removing the USA from its post WWII role as THE WORLD Military Hegemon Enforcer. All the Dems want is the dirty money for selling us out. Which is a game as old as Benedict Arnold’s deal with the British.

Anybody want to buy Fort West Point and throw in the capture General Washington too?Just pay off an available nasty Traitor.

n.n said...

Trump advises leadership priorities. The Guardian brays retributive change... one step forward, two steps backward.

n.n said...

The country needs for conservatives to beat progressives like rented mules just so they know how it feels.

Pin the tail on the Ass. Let us bray.

Political Junkie said...

I just read Ann's caption and thought about all the negative ad dollars DJT has spent against Ron.

JK Brown said...

Trump will use the FBI....?

Yes, that's not sarcasm. I mean look at how the FBI acted when he was president. It was loyal and devoted....to the Democratic party. The career DOJ are devoted Democrat acolytes eager to please the Party. So naturally, they would be easily used to go after Trump's political opposition. Now, that's not saying that the FBI/DOJ might not be shamed into pursuing real criminal investigations to try and save some of their reputation after what has transpired in recent years.

Drago said...

rcoceam: "Look at Christie, Haley, and DeSantis. Not one of them is upset at Biden trying to destroy Trump through "Lawfare". So, if Biden wants to pick them off, they'll have nothing to say."

Quite so. So much so you've got DeSantis running to Morning Joe and lending legitimacy to the lawfare efforts.

Not surprising really since the entire rationale and strategy for the DeSantis campaign has always been to wait for the GOPe/dem lawfare alliance to remove Trump from the campaign and allow DeSantis to step in with the GOPe/globalist big bucks to secure the nomination and ensure all of those horrifically icky republican base voters are put back in their place so the nation could return to Full UniParty Operations again.

Of course, since DeSantis has done surprisingly poorly on the campaign trail, dare I say there hasn't been any chance for DeSantis to "get a lift" (see what I did there?), Nikki or another Off-The-Shelf neocon GOPe-er will certainly suffice.

hombre said...

In the political domain there is no news. There is only propaganda. The Democrats, cultural Marxists and Islamic jihadists do propaganda well. The Republicans, conservatives and Israelis do not.

It is inexplicable that secular progressive Jews, who have considerable control over the mass media, allow it to be used to promote antisemitic interests through propaganda.

Trump is a boor, but he is not a monster. Republicans are stupid, but they are not monsters. Conservatives and Israelis are not monsters. Democrats and their minions, on the other hand are awful, unless you think killing babies, riots and burnings, antisemitism, human and drug trafficking at the border, etc., are A-ok.

hombre said...

In the political domain there is no news. There is only propaganda. The Democrats, cultural Marxists and Islamic jihadists do propaganda well. The Republicans, conservatives and Israelis do not.

It is inexplicable that secular progressive Jews, who have considerable control over the mass media, allow it to be used to promote antisemitic interests through propaganda.

Trump is a boor, but he is not a monster. Republicans are stupid, but they are not monsters. Conservatives and Israelis are not monsters. Democrats and their minions, on the other hand are awful, unless you think killing babies, riots and burnings, antisemitism, human and drug trafficking at the border, etc., are A-ok.

Howard said...

I think the acquiescence of the mainstream Democrats to the extreme left won't truly end until we have another four years of Donald Trump as Commander in Chief. In a way he's like chemotherapy for the nation.

Wince said...

Missed here in the comparison is that Trump actually WAS president and did NOT use the opportunity push indictments of his political opponents who actually DID break the law in non-frivolous ways.

In fact, Trump's AG sicced a cabal of political opponents on Trump.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The missed message is, IF Biden was the president and IF he was popular, he wouldn't have to resort to putting an opponent in jail.

The hidden message: Biden is neither President, nor popular.

These "reporters" could cover Trump for 10 years and they would still not understand him.

They are prejudiced.

rehajm said...

Politically the dilemma of abusing the rules was defined as the nuclear option. You didn't do it because of the destructive nature of the consequences of doing it- come back to bite you in the ass-wise. So yah, fair game if you need it but there's true corruption to deal with first...

...and Trump talks about it now so they jackasses using it now will temper their actions now. A warning not a threat....

Rafe said...

“In a way he's like chemotherapy for the nation.”

Like bleach in the nations veins - figuratively, of course.

- Rafe

Maynard said...

I think the acquiescence of the mainstream Democrats to the extreme left won't truly end until we have another four years of Donald Trump as Commander in Chief. In a way he's like chemotherapy for the nation.

I think you have it backwards, Howard.

We will have four more years of the Biden/Obama Administration. At the end, we will be a far more totalitarian society. Let's see if the GOPe objects to that and stops acquiescing to the Soviet Democrat party.

walter said...

He's painting a picture to show the degree of selective overreach justified only by "But Truuuuuummmmmp!!!"
But then, maybe they got the idea from Trump re "Lock her up!"
Dems have a track record of initially protesting something, then embracing it when they realize the utility.
Remember Klobuchar and Warren complaining about voting machines?
Also..Bill Bagpipe Barr warning about mail-in ballots then going on vacay at a curios time.

Rusty said...

Howard.
Is that you're way of saying you're sorry you voted for Biden?

Yancey Ward said...

Of course he is using sarcasm, but here is the difference- Trump or any Republican would never be allowed to use the DoJ the way Biden and the people hand-puppeteering him have used the criminal justice system- entire offices of US Attorney's would resign in protest, and any such effort would immediately be shut down by the first judge with a case.

Some commenters here constantly criticize Trump for not "locking up" Hillary Clinton. Here is why he never did it- the DoJ would have resigned en masse had Trump's AG done so, and the case would have been thrown out of every single federal court the moment it landed in their lap. Trump and, more specifically, his AG realized this right from the start and weren't willing to fight a losing battle.

Mike said...

Indicting your political opponent is made a lot easier when he, like Trump, is a criminal who runs around criming all the time.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Yancey - Trump promised to get a special counsel/prosecuter to look into her "situation" aka - her use of a Private Server and perhaps other crimes.

Trump dropped that promise like a hot potato. Flipped flopped so hard he went from "crook Hillary" to 'I don't want to hurt the lovely Clintons." and other gobsmackingly strange suck-ups. Good gravy. What crap.

Mash up of Trump's own promises, Trump's own words... and reneging on those promises.

Again - Then Hillary ate his lunch.

Look at how obsessed she is? She just compared Trump to "Hitler" a few days ago.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Hillary's obsession with Donald Trump.

Hilarious. Guy Benson nails it.

Hillary: "I hated losing, especially to him!"
Benson: Pure joy.. her saying that "Brought warmth into my soul." hahahahahaha ha.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

11:11
Wince - Missed, indeed.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

rcocean - why are you such a liar?

The Florida Governor defended Trump against criminal charges brought by the Justice Department during a speech in North Carolina, and on a few other occasions.

Trump responded by insulting him... with his usual immature insults.

rcocean said...


"It is inexplicable that secular progressive Jews, who have considerable control over the mass media, allow it to be used to promote antisemitic interests through propaganda."

There are no "antisemitic interests". Its like when people talk about the KKK. THere is no KKK worth mentionig. There are about 2000 KKK members and half of them are FBI informants.

rcocean said...

One thing I've learned over the last 8 years is when the MSM headline says "Trump says Crazy thing X" - 90 percent of the time, he didn't. But you have to read the story and teeze out that out of the details.

Howard said...

No, Rusty I like Joe Biden. He's been wiping the floor with Republicans getting everything he wants passed and codified. He has said and done all of the right things to oppose the enemies of the Free world.

It's most of the rest of the democratic party I can't stand and it's the reason why they can't get their act together in Congress or the Senate.

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WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

rcocean - forget the crazy - how about illiterate.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Howard reveals where the D-base sits. They like Biden.

They will come out and vote for that crook. They like his crook family.

farmgirl said...

I have a NYC friend who hates Trump. Last night we touched on the subject of him •••

She says: he’s got a rap sheet that’s a mile long.
Yah, right, I say.
She says: what do you think of it?
It’s all fabricated- it’s to keep him off the ballot, I say.
She says: he’s like hitler.
No, this side of politics doesn’t produce the hitler types, I say.
She say: are you saying the Holocaust didn’t happen?

~smack my head~

Lucien said...

The Guardian buries the lede! If Trump plans to do this to political opponents it admits he would run for a third term!!!!

Rusty said...

Howard said...
"No, Rusty I like Joe Biden. He's been wiping the floor with Republicans getting everything he wants passed and codified. He has said and done all of the right things to oppose the enemies of the Free world.

It's most of the rest of the democratic party I can't stand and it's the reason why they can't get their act together in Congress or the Senate."

To be fair(Letterkenny) the Republicans pretty much volunteered to be the mop head. Your not paying attention. The Bidens are making their fortunes off the enemies of the free world. He embraces them. Like all your kind you want him to get us into WW3. Which, let's face it between Russia, Iran and China we sort of are. So you'll excuse me if I don't think you're mentally equiped to have an opinion. You voted for this train wreck and you'll do it again. Start paying attention.