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Ah yes, and they can replace him with a real politician: RFK jr.

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Trump is 100% going to blame this loser when he fucks the election up, and the following insurrection attempt.

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If Trump loses in November he’ll be in jail by January. The sentencing has already been scheduled. If the election is going to be stolen it’ll have to be stolen when the votes are cast or counted, not when the election is certified.

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he’ll be in jail by January.

Sigh - no he won’t, so can we stop pretending like he will ever face punishment for anything?

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I would believe a “house arrest” at Maralago. A house arrest where he gets to pick his security and visitors like Columbia Colombia did with Escobar.

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I expect he’s going to say he didn’t mean that he fabricated the story, but instead meant that he “created the story” in the sense of bringing it to the media’s attention

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He did say exactly that in the interview when called out. It’s in the twitter thread linked.

Towards the end.

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He should definitely resign from the Senate. I’m not sure if he’s legally allowed to back out of the VP nomination.

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He can’t be forced to serve but it may be too late to get his name off of ballots. I’m pretty sure the rules for that vary by state, though. We’ve already then through this once this year with RFK.

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He didn’t create it, but he should resign anyway because he is a sack of shit.

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