Rolling Stone spoke with diehard Trump supporters who waited hours in the snow to watch the former president stump in New Hampshire

Fresh off a historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump traveled to New Hampshire and complained to his supporters that he had to leave the White House after losing the 2020 election.

Fans had lined up for hours outside in the snow for a chance to see the presumptive Republican nominee in person — excited over his Iowa win, appearing confident he will once again be president.

During his speech, Trump said it “was ridiculous that we had to leave, but we had to leave, we have to follow the laws of our land.” He quickly doubled down on his 2020 election lies: “They don’t investigate the people that cheated in the election. They investigate the people that understand they cheated and go after them. But they don’t investigate the people who cheated like hell. We have to have fair and free elections.”

Of course, Trump is being prosecuted for attempting to rig the 2020 election and overturn the results in key swing states — and as Rolling Stone has reported, he and his allies are working diligently to predetermine the results of the 2024 election and make sure they favor Trump.

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    6 months ago

    And the easiest way to bust that conspiracy is to ask:

    Why send them all to blue California, and not to any red states?

    Do you know how many low-populations states like Wyoming and the Dakotas could be flipped blue with just a few tens of thousands more Democratic voters? It makes no sense to send them to a state you’re already going to win, when you can thin them out and win several states

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      6 months ago

      Ehh, that has an easy and stupid rebutal:

      “Good gun toting Christian patriots would have killed those illegals on sight. It’s only in Satanic Taxifornia where all the godless heathen and DeMoN RaTs live that they could get away with it!”

      The key was that he wanted to vilify Hillary, immigrants and California all at once while stroking his own ego.