13 times Trump alluded to cheating in the 2024 election

Part 4 of my series on election interference

Hey, remember that Arrested Development episode where the family accidentally discovers George Michael’s Star Wars re-enactment videos? I wonder if the Musk family has a dusty VHS of Elon cosplaying as Baby Hitler somewhere?

Sadly, Elon’s days as a wee little cyborg happened before the digital era so those clips may never see the light of the day. We’ll just have to settle for this one in its place. (See? Cyborg.)

But while I enjoy laughing at Nazis as much as the next gal (Oooh! Remember when Richard Spencer got punched?), we have to focus here, people. Because one of the many problems with Nazis is that they tend to distract you from other things. In fact, you might even wonder if that was part of the plan …

Let’s rewind all the way back to January 19th, which was somehow only last Sunday. Remember in that long-ago time when the most shocking bit of news was President-Elect Trump very nearly admitting that Elon helped rig the election?

Well, the citizen sleuths at the somethingiswrong2024 subreddit did some digging and found quite a few more shady admissions.

Take a little skim down this page and see if you think any of this sounds suspicous. Ask yourself this: Doesn’t it seem odd that a presidential candidate would be so insistent that he doesn’t need your vote? (Points 10-12 really kill me.)

1. 10/23/23, Derry NH rally: "You don't have to vote, don't worry about voting. The voting—we got plenty of votes."
   Sources: New Republic, Business Insider, [Clip]
   

2. 6/15/24, Detroit MI (Turning Point Action Convention): "Listen, we don't need votes. [...] We don't need votes. We have to stop — focus, don't worry about votes."
   Source: MSNBC [Full Speech - 59 min]
   

3. 6/21/24, Washington DC (Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference): "I tell my people, I don't need any votes. We got all the votes we need. We don't need the votes."
   Source: MSNBC [Clip]
   

4. 6/28/24, Chesapeake VA rally: "We don't need the votes."
   Source: MSNBC [Clip]
   

5. 7/25/24, Fox & Friends phone interview: "My instruction: We don't need the votes, I have so many votes."
   Source: New Republic [Clip]

6. 7/26/24, West Palm Beach FL (Turning Point Summit): "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians"
   Sources: NPR, MSNBC [Clip]

7. 7/29/24, Fox News: "This time, vote. I'll straighten out the country, you won't have to vote any more, I won't need your vote any more, you can go back to not voting."
   Sources: NYT, Guardian
   

8. 8/21/24, Asheboro NC rally: "Our primary focus is not to get out the vote, it is to make sure they don't cheat."
   Source: NBC News [Clip]
   

9. 10/5/24, Meridian PA rally: "He's great but if we don't have good results by the 6th of November, I will never say that about him again. [...] He's working mostly on 'stop the steal' because we have a lot of votes, we have plenty of votes. [...] make it 'too big to rig.'"
   Source: CNN [Full Speech - 2h 35min]
   

10. 10/27/24, Madison Square Garden rally: "I think with our little secret we're going to do really well with the House, right? Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a little secret — we will tell you what it is when the race is over." Speaking directly to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson while on stage.
    Sources: NYT, PBS [Clip]
    

11. 11/3/24, Macon GA rally: "We're way ahead. I'm not supposed to say that. My people say 'please don't say that, sir.'"
    Source: Guardian [Full Speech - 45min 50sec]
    

12. 11/4/24, Pittsburgh PA rally: "He looked at some that were just shipped in, some of these vote counting computers. He knew it before it even came in the door, he looked like in the back of it, 'oh I know that one'. I mean he knows this stuff better than anyone."
    Source: CBS News [Full Speech - 40min 50sec]
    

13. 1/19/25, Washington DC rally: "He was very effective. He knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide, so it was pretty good. It was pretty good. Thank you to Elon."
    Source: PBS News [Clip]

I can’t believe anyone lets this man near a microphone. The White House is now serving as Trump’s personal memory care ward.

And what part did Elon play in all this? Check out my last post that includes some videos of Elon saying some seriously super-villian stuff. I’m telling you: cyborg.

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