Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek]
Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek]
Trump told Elon Musk in an interview that they could meet in Venezuela as it is "a far safer place to meet than our country."
Headline slightly sensationalised compared to article content. But he did say he’d go to Venezuela if he loses.
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Evidently many Lemmy users don’t understand that this a threat, not a promise to leave. Direct quote from Trump:
"If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we'll meet the next time in Venezuela, because it'll be a far safer place to meet than our country," Trump said to Musk. "OK, so we'll go. You and I will go, and we'll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela."
He’s implying the violence that will be unleashed on the US by his followers if he looses will make Venezuela (a country that is currently in revolt because of contested elections) seem safe in comparison to what his people will do here.
This is a classic “mobster” threat against anyone who opposes him that he just threw out.
I remember when the protests and people upset at the 2016 election were somehow ultra violent and murderous even though they never attacked anyone. I also remember when Charlie Kirk claimed that Republicans, unlike democrats, would not lose their shit if they lost. We all know how that went.
You need to remember something about Trump. He IS mobster in the end of the day. When he and his father were getting shit done at the start of his career they had to work with the mafia and build contacts with them. This is also why he was somewhat able to get stuff working in New York construction during the 80s. When he became a pariah the only people who still worked with him are basically criminal types and foreign governments who knew how easy it was to sway him.
That fucking mobster threat is his calling card. I received a trump email that was about voting and at the very bottom it had that sleeping with the fishes quote. Straight up didn't fit at all but they shoe horned it in there to try and scare people into voting for him.
Or he's saying that America under Kamala Harris will be so bad that it won't be safe because of "open boarders" and whatever other bullshit he spouts.