Things That Donald Trump Truly Believes

Well he has run this country for the past three-and-a-half years.

1. Clinton, as abysmally terrible as she was, yes, would have been many thousands of times better than Trump.

2. While the Clintons are generally pretty immoral, self-serving, and unscrupulous people, alleged scandals involving the Clinton Foundation are almost entirely BS. The foundation has been found to be quite good by foundation standards repeatedly by multiple unbiased agencies.

3. Wikileaks is a tool of Russian, anti-Western, and-NATO, and-American propaganda.

4. The Affordable Care Act is far from perfect but the Republican plan is to screw over the sick, poor, and elderly to grant short term advantage oligarchs and corporations. I hardly feel that's any better. As to whether or not basic healthcare should be a human right, and whether societies should provide some protection for its citizens against premature death from preventable or accidental illness/injury is a philosophical question not really related to the GOP position if we're being honest.

If you think Fox News is worth watching that explains a lot. They are terrible.

Really?

So...

1. you think "orange" is a race?

2. You don't understand the difference between conspiracy theory and actual conspiracy.

3. ....... really? You're serious? First of all nobody ever said Trump not releasing his tax returns was a terrible, despicable thing to do... nice strawman you got there. What they *have* said is that he's the first major party nominee in over four decades to refuse to release information about their finances or taxes, that his claim that he couldn't because he was being audited is a bald-faced lie (and the IRS has confirmed this), and that this is troubling since he is *obviously* hiding something.

Second, nobody cares about my tax returns. I'll release them if you want, but I'm not running for president so why would it matter? Trump supporters say some crazy crazy things...

2020 man. Russia scandal's a hoax.

Still no wall. But they have diverted tons of money toward it, away from other more worthy uses of said money. Illegally.

I think the tie is mostly related to his insecurities about the size of his hands, inauguration crowds, electoral victory margins, fortune, IQ, et cetera.

It's true, though. Trump's words mean virtually nothing at all.

He might have been joking when he said these things, and thus does not 'truly believe' them.

No liberal has used that language about the 2016 election that I've ever heard. Russia interfered in the election and exerted influence, and there was a widespread disinformation campaign mostly on social media that may have very well given the election to Trump, but that's not exactly the same as the election being "rigged."

On the other hand, there is good cause to be alarmed about things taking place presently, and good cause to worry that the election of 2020 may be rigged for Trump (who keeps accusing the Democrats of trying to cheat... but we know from experience every time he accuses anyone else of doing something or being something negative, he is talking about himself).

Right at this moment Trump and his henchmen are trying to sow as much doubt and confusion and chaos about this year's election as possible. They are already discussing plans to sue to stop vote counting as early as possible. And they have been trying to figure out ways to fix the electoral college.

Just watch. On election night, if Trump does not win a clear victory, he will immediately claim that Democrats are cheating and counting fraudulent ballots (with zero evidence of this). He will then claim that any counting past election night is fraudulent and must be stopped. He will send armies of lawyers to every swing state to try and stop vote counts, and will sue every county he can to try and delay, disrupt, or confuse their counting and certification process. Then, after a few days have gone by with the chaos he has created, he will announce that the whole thing is a disaster and that we cannot be certain about any of the results anywhere. He will then take measures to appoint Trump loyalist electors to the Electoral College, who will ignore any vote counting going on in the swing states still, and he will try to announce himself as the winner. This will of course be challenged, and taken quickly to the Supreme Court, where he is counting on a 6-3 majority to make him king.

I'm not sure that the Supreme Court will go along with this. Kavanaugh probably will. Thomas probably will. Any of the awful women he is thinking about appointing to be the 9th justice definitely will; that's obviously part of their interview process right now. But... none of the liberal justices will. And I'm not sure about the remaining conservative justices, especially Gorsuch and Roberts. They *might* actually care enough about the country, the Constitution, democracy, and the rule of law to try and stop Trump's coup. They might not. If they do... then I imagine Trump is going to try and get Barr to find some other legal way for him to suspend the election and stay in office as long as he can. Or maybe just rile up his idiotic base enough that we end up in a 2nd American Civil War. That'll be fun.

Dark times for the country... get out and vote.

and it also doesn't help that we've got hundreds of mostly unqualified hacks appointed to federal courts as judges the last few years by Trump and McConnell. Every branch of government right now is heavily compromised.

Trump has no internal monologue and is incapable of things like nuance, restraint, or subtlety. To the extent that he believes anything, everyone knows it.

Then you are one of several things that I can't type here.