Suddenly Trump isn't so sure he won the 2020 election. He's trying to weasel out of some charges.
By Curt_Anderson August 14, 2023 3:54 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Up until a week or so ago Trump seemed pretty certain that the 2020 election was rigged that and that he was the rightful winner: "frankly, we did win this election". Now he's suddenly adding qualifiers to his Big Lie such as "I think" and "my opinion".
Trump may have listened to his lawyers or heard Alan Dershowitz say even stupidly false ideas and opinions are protected by the First Amendment. I wonder if Trump had added weasel words to his January 6th speech would the mob would have rampaged through the Capitol. Here's my opinion: We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, maybe you’re not going to have a country anymore. I think. Anyway that's what I believe. That's just me. But who knows? Don't quote me.
(Washington Post)During a Newsmax interview Wednesday night, Trump added such a qualifier no fewer than six times in the space of 30 seconds.
“I’m telling them that, in my opinion, the election was rigged,” Trump said of the Jan. 2, 2021, call in which he urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to “find” just enough votes to overturn Trump’s deficit.
“I believe I won that election by many, many votes, many, many hundreds of thousands of votes,” Trump said. “That’s what I think.”
“That’s my opinion, and it’s a strong opinion,” he added. “And I think it’s borne out by the facts, and we’ll see that.”
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Up until a week or so ago Trump seemed pretty certain that the 2020 election was rigged that and that he was the rightful winner: "frankly, we did win this election". Now he's suddenly adding qualifiers to his Big Lie such as "I think" and "my opinion". 
