Trump’s comments on Wednesday come just days after he called on Republicans to "nationalize" state-managed elections.

In an interview with NBC News’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday, President Donald Trump indicated that it’s possible he won’t accept the outcome of the 2026 midterms. Asked whether he’d respect the results of the elections that will be held later this year, Trump said he would only do so if he deemed the outcomes to be legitimate. “I will [accept the midterm outcomes] if the elections are honest…

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Was Mike Pence alone in the Senate? Do you believe the insurrectionists would let everybody else go peacefully?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Do you believe the insurrectionists would let everybody else go peacefully?

      I don’t believe the rest of the executive branch bureaucracy would honor the whims of an angry, badly organized mob.

      I do think a lot more of them would have been killed when the police retook the building.

      • danekrae@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I don’t believe the rest of the executive branch bureaucracy would honor the whims of an angry, badly organized mob.

        It’s an insurrection. It doesn’t matter, when everybody is killed.

        I do think a lot more of them would have been killed when the police retook the building.

        Unless every single MAGA was there, I don’t see how that is relevant.