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UCmeNdc

(9,601 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2020, 02:57 AM Jan 2020

The phony "LOCK HER UP!" campaign which arguably resulted in Trump's Presidency

The phony "LOCK HER UP!" campaign which arguably resulted in Trump's Presidency was not only made possible, but actually enabled --- shamefully --- by corporate mainstream media which legitimized what was otherwise clearly little more than a bogus, orchestrated hit campaign by Trump and his Rightwing media machine in 2016. We have a word or two to say about all of that on today's program, even as Trump is currently using the same playbook to falsely discredit Joe Biden (and, undoubtedly, whoever else may win the Democratic nomination this year.)

For some slightly more encouraging news today, we turn to North Carolina, where a federal judge has, once again, shut down the state Republican legislature's latest scheme to enact Photo ID voting restrictions in 2020, finding it an attempt at discriminatory voter suppression. The ruling comes after a different federal judge had found the state GOP's previous scheme to restrict voting (by certain voters) in the very closely divided swing-state to have been written specifically to "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision."


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The phony "LOCK HER UP!" campaign which arguably resulted in Trump's Presidency (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2020 OP
They are still not reporting on Trump the way they should be lame54 Jan 2020 #1
how many blue dresses have they ignored? pansypoo53219 Jan 2020 #3
It was a hook for the mob mentality. OnDoutside Jan 2020 #2
Exactly! duforsure Jan 2020 #4
I think we all feel a little helpless until there's a Democratic president, to OnDoutside Jan 2020 #5

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
4. Exactly!
Sun Jan 12, 2020, 07:39 AM
Jan 2020

And putin had his candidate in a country closer to him use that slogan also on a woman holding office , which his candidate beat her and trumped up charges to put her in jail. That was also before trump used it? Was putin behind it with trump too , using it against someone else he hated, Hillary? I do suspect it was from putin all along. Along with Hillary investigations , and attacks on Obama. They hurt putin with their sanctions and this was his revenge.

OnDoutside

(19,982 posts)
5. I think we all feel a little helpless until there's a Democratic president, to
Sun Jan 12, 2020, 01:54 PM
Jan 2020

take the fight to Putin.

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