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Donald Trump has never been the best speaker, and a recent announcement from his "office" showed just how idiotic the man can be when no one is looking over his shoulder. He released a statement saying that anyone who DOES NOT believe that there WAS NOT widespread election fraud is either "very stupid or very corrupt." The double negative means that anyone who believes his lies is either stupid or corrupt, which is one of the few honest moments we've seen from Trump, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
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Over the weekend Donald Trump released yet another one of his statements from, I guess, his office that really did read like a tweet because it was a very short sentence that was filled with grammatical errors that actually undermine the message that he was trying to send out. In fact, the double negative in his statement negated his entire sentence and accidentally made it come true. So here's what Donald Trump had to say. Anybody that doesn't think there wasn't massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid or very corrupt. That doesn't think there wasn't. So that double negative actually means that does think there was. Does that make sense to everybody? So what this statement actually means, grammatically speaking is anyone who thinks there was massive election fraud in Trump's own words is either very corrupt or very stupid. Now Trump got absolutely demolished for this over the weekend and he rightfully should, you know, this, this is one sentence.
That's all he issued, by the way, in this, in this statement. Put out on the official, you know, digital letterhead, one sentence, like he was sending out a tweet, but he has to of course rely on other people to share it in order for it to grain, gain traction. Don't you think that somebody within that office, this actually came from the save America political action committee, don't you think somebody in the chain of process here would have seen this grammatical error and just said, hey, hold up real quick, uh, change this so that way it doesn't seem like you're calling yourself an idiot, but nobody, nobody was willing to stand up to Donald Trump. Because we know he didn't put this out himself. Like I said, he doesn't have social media. Other people had to put this out for him. There were lots of different eyeballs on this before it went out and not one of them either understood that it was a grammatical error making it seem like Trump was calling himself and his supporters stupid.
Or two, they were too terrified of him to let him know that he was stupid for making this kind of mistake. And what's funny is that, of course the fact checkers actually looked at this and they said, you know what, technically, this is the first accurate statement Donald Trump has made about the legitimacy of the 2020 election because there was not widespread massive fraud. All of the fraud cases we have seen all, save for one, have been Trump supporters voting twice for Donald Trump. But even that wasn't widespread, just a couple handfuls of individuals here and there across the country. We've had audits. We've had verifications. We have had recounts. We have gone through all of the processes necessary for this and no rampant fraud was found. So yes, you do have to be incredibly stupid to believe that there was widespread fraud or in fact you have to be deeply corrupt, as Trump says. But here's the thing. More and more Republicans are actually buying into this.
You would think that a year after this election, the numbers of people who actually believed there was fraud would be going down, but they're not. This is not the fringe of the party anymore. This actually is a majority of Republicans who hold this belief.
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