Trump and his team are laying the groundwork for challenging the legitimacy of the election in the event of a Clinton win. This is flatly anti-American rhetoric which brazenly states that a Trump loss will be met with an attempt to provoke “a constitutional crisis” and “widespread civil disobedience.”
“I’m afraid the election’s gonna be rigged, I have to be honest,” Trump told the crowd.
While Trump has often questioned the integrity of the primary contests in both parties, his newest remarks seemed to begin laying groundwork for him to contest the Nov. 8 election results.
It was a line of attack that longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone pushed on a podcast with Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos that was posted online Friday. Stone suggested voter fraud is “widespread” and said if Hillary Clinton wins a state like Florida after polls show Trump in the lead, the election would be “illegitimate.”
“If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government,” Stone said. He also promised a “bloodbath” if the Democrats attempt to “steal” the election.
Voter fraud is so statistically rare as to be virtually nonexistent, data has shown.
When Federalist John Adams defeated Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson in 1792 the nation held its breath. Would the country hold together in spite of the hostility between the two camps? Would national unity survive an evenly split electorate?
This November, if Trump loses narrowly will Republicans join Trump in this attack on our Democracy? Will people like Charlie Copeland once again put their party above the country? We should not have to wait until November to find out. Any American, Republican or Democrat that supports Trump after this statement is an accomplice and will own a share of whatever chaos and discord Trump as planned.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind
