Former President Donald Trump has denounced Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate as “not fair,” escalating his rhetoric as new polls show Harris gaining substantial ground in key battleground states.

In a fiery statement on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump accused the Democratic Party of staging “the first ever ‘Coup’ in America.”

His outburst comes in the wake of President Joe Biden’s unexpected withdrawal from the 2024 race, which paved the way for Harris to become the Democratic nominee.

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🤣

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Guess who had the most-recent failed coup…?

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Was it really a failure if he is still running for president instead of hanged for treason?

Seems it was just a little coup, for practice.

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Makes me want to give him a deuce coup, right on his front porch

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He may have committed some light treason.

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You get one coup attempt, as a treat.

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Failed coup: I sleep

Democratic process: real coup shit

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“It’s not fair that we were too stupid to withhold all of our insulting bullshit and propaganda merch we spent a ton of time and money on BEFORE Joe Biden was the actual nominated candidate, so now we’re going to kick and scream about it because I’m pissy widdle baby.”

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Dude absolutely just likes how buzzy the word coup is. Like, saying it’s not fair is one thing, even though it very clearly is. And even suggesting it should be against the rules is a valid opinion, even if it’s not based on facts.

But calling it a coup, not even an attempt at a coup, is silly. Even if she used a private army to storm the DNC to secure the nomination, it’s not a coup until she gets inaugurated.

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It’s just a key part of the DARVO thing. They accuse the opposition of whatever they are getting accused of. Russia was accused of trying to interfere with the election on his behalf? Now everything is “election interference”. People complain about Trump’s criminal cases? Keep talking about the “Biden crime family”, without evidence, as if it’s a real thing. And after they tried and failed on Jan 6 to stage a coup, now everything they don’t like is a “coup”.

It’s also the reason why “every accusation is a confession” with Republicans. If they come out with a bullshit accusation out of nowhere and start pushing it without evidence, you know its because they’ve either done the thing or are thinking about doing it.

After this latest round of bogus SC rulings, there was a lot of introspection into how the Court got this way. Someone pointed out that there was a book written during the Obama years accusing Democrats of undermining the Federal Judiciary to subert the rule of law – and the process in the book exactly matched what Trump and McConnell did. They wrote it out in plain sight – but since it was written as a baseless accusation, nobody paid attention.

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The effect is to water down the word “coup.” Now, I wonder why Smelly Orange would want to do that?

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You’re also seeing him use the word cheater recently. I noticed it front and center when he was trying to say that Harris’ rally audience was AI generated and called her a cheater… guess what he’s going to say come election time?

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And guess who will likely get caught trying to use AI to make crowd sizes look bigger

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He’s already likely big into the AI cheating. The Trump bots were highly active yesterday on the only DNC feed on YouTube that had an unlocked chat.

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Repubs deliberately accuse the other side of crimes and corruption they are actively doing, to muddy the waters.

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