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Some keys to Previous Guy's disinformation [1]

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Date: 2023-07-20

Ron DeSantis says slaves were “developing new job skills.” and Previous Guy's too busy to go to jail, but Philip Bump dissects definitively how to read Trump’s rhetoric. There’s so much disinformation but we’ll need to sort this out.

Trump's announcement that he'd received notice of another likely federal indictment was a pastiche of nonsense, lies and rationalization. But it's important to understand what he's claiming — and why it's dishonest — as his supporters circle the wagons. https://t.co/L2DhhBlMra

The lengthy rant is worth parsing closely, though, because it is also replete with misinformation and false claims that demand contextualization. Considering Trump’s putative argument sentence by sentence makes obvious the flimsiness of his defense and the desperation of his response.

His lengthy statement, offered with his idiosyncratic grammar and capitalization, offers a wide-ranging litany of excuses, rationalizations and attacks, few of which actually address what is likely to be the focus of the criminal probe. The approach appears to be the one that Trump has deployed often previously: throw out every possible bit of flotsam to which those inclined to be sympathetic can cling. He only needs people to accept one of his disparagements and deflections to mute their criticism of his actions, so he gives them an enormous number from which to choose.

But the response was heavy on rhetoric, presumably because Trump understands that being elected president remains one of his best bets for avoiding a criminal conviction.

In a statement running to nearly 800 words and shared on the social media platform he runs, Trump claimed that his lawyers had been informed by the office of special counsel Jack Smith that the former president is a target of an investigation centered on efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s response is relatively light on details, presumably because government prosecutors are understandably keeping their cards close to their chests.

The world learned that former president Donald Trump had been identified as the target of another federal criminal probe from Trump himself.

x Trump Truth Social post: “If you f*ck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.” pic.twitter.com/YzAB8HQ4Jx — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 20, 2023

There are thousands of media results if you Google “Qanon”. It’s one of the most talked about things in the MSM, yet there is such a stigma around having an adult conversation about it. Meanwhile, 2 days ago, Trump went full “Qanon” on Truth Social, sharing Q drops and threatening retribution on the Deep State, in a fairly mafioso and hostile manner. I just find it odd that even so many in the mainstream Conservative community, myself included, tend to avoid talking about Q-related anything, because even mentioning it’s existence will get you placed in the loony bin, despite the Left-wing media talking about it nonstop for 6 years. We just avoid talking about it because it’s easier than dealing with the blowback. But when the leading presidential candidate is sharing it on his social media, doesn’t that kind of mean we have to address it?

x There are thousands of media results if you Google “Qanon”.



It’s one of the most talked about things in the MSM, yet there is such a stigma around having an adult conversation about it.



Meanwhile, 2 days ago, Trump went full “Qanon” on Truth Social, sharing Q drops and… pic.twitter.com/VeT7E2tlZw — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) July 20, 2023

Digital World Acquisition — the special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that had planned to merge with Trump’s company — agreed to pay $18 million if its merger concludes and revise its false filings to comply with securities laws, SEC officials said in a statement.

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