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.
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.