Ex-president in Arizona warns appeal courts to ‘step up and straighten things out’ and insists he committed no crimes
In his first campaign rally after being convicted of 34 felonies, former president Donald Trump recalled how he just went through a “rigged” trial with a “highly conflicted” judge despite there being “no crime”.
The court cases Trump faces have become a mainstay of his campaigning throughout the last year, where he frequently tells his followers that the charges are a form of election interference and designed to tamp down the Maga movement.
“Those appellate courts have to step up and straighten things out, or we’re not going to have a country any longer,” he said.
Trump spoke at a Turning Point Action event in sweltering Phoenix, at Dream City church, a megachurch where he and Turning Point have held rallies in the past. The extreme heat led to some waiting outside for the venue to open to need medical attention for heatstroke.
Yup, when bad stuff happens, always blame those riggers…
While I do think that was him undeniably being racist, I think it was more an issue of, “hey, if I say someone who rigs is a rigger, it sounds like-” long after he started using the word “rigged.” Because I don’t think he’s smart enough to come up with that sort of dog whistle the other way around.
It certainly is on brand for the false intelligence his followers give him though.
Well, he did love to use the hard N before this all while on set of the Apprentice, so I wouldn’t put him past making the connection on his own and steering it there.
I’m suggesting he made the connection after the fact rather than used the word ‘rigged’ because of that.