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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Foreshadowing insurrection: Trump on Twitter on 6 November 2012, following Obama’s re-election

We can’ t let this happen.  We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!

Let’s fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice.  The world is laughing at us!

More votes equal a loss … revolution! (later deleted)

He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election.  We should have a revolution in this country! (later deleted)[1]



 



[1] Trump tweeted the above between 11:29 and 11:39 pm. See Ferdinand Mount, ”Ruthless and Truthless” in London Review of Books, Vol 43, No. 9 (6 May 2021), p. 8. 

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