Republicans, especially their leader President Donald Trump, are running scared after Democrats’ massive victories in the midterm elections.
Nothing puts that in clearer perspective than a series of rage-filled social media posts that a furious Trump sent out early Thursday morning. This came after he promised to work with Democrats shortly after the GOP’s big election losses.
First, he lashed out at Democrats, accusing them of the very thing Americans elected the party to investigate after sending a huge blue wave to Congress last week, including majorities in both chambers of Congress.
The president on his Truth Social platform accused states run by Democrats of “TREMENDOUS & UNPRECEDENTED” corruption, yet the corruption of his own administration is part of why so many Americans turned out to vote.
“The Democrat Party, lead by one of the most Corrupt and anti-American groups of political leaders and hacks in the history of our Country, and even the World, is doing everything in their power to get away from MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION by saying, over and over again, that the Trump Administration is corrupt,” a crazed Trump ranted in a message he sent just before 6 a.m.
But he had more to say.
“It is a sound bite that they viciously use, over and over again, in order to nullify the TREMENDOUS & UNPRECEDENTED theft that has taken place in our Blue States – Minnesota, California, and others, all over the U.S.A.”
Then he resorted to denial.
“THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite!” he insisted.
But critics say he isn’t fooling anyone.
In another post just before 6:30 a.m., Trump called Dems “anti-American Dumocrats” as he raved about how they refused to release his tax returns during his first term, something every other president willingly did before him.
By 8:07 a.m., he had worked himself into such a frenzy that he revealed what his plans really are.
“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” Trump raged in another social post. The notion would remove Vance from leading peace negotiations with Iran.
“The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters,” he added. He has sent Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents into all three states in violent immigration crackdowns that pundits say helped Republicans lose the midterms.
Social media users didn’t back down as Trump angrily accused others of corruption while leading the most provably corrupt administration in modern history.
“He talks about corruption yet he’s the most corrupt person to ever be president and it’s not even close. He’s made $4B+ in less than two years,” an X user pointed out.
Others agreed. “He is delusional. Practically the whole United States turned blue.”
This person summed up Trump’s angry tirade this way.
“Stuck in the first stage of grief–Shock and Denial. He can’t fathom the country would resoundingly reject him, so he constructs a labyrinth of lies to soothe his bruised ego. If he weren’t so dangerous, I’d write it off as fine for an 80-year-old to lose himself in delusions.
Trump’s social meltdown and accusations come after he first promised to accept the election results and work with Democrats.
But by Monday, he had reversed course, alleging in a social post that Republicans lost so heavily during the midterms because of “rigged” voting machines.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest?” Trump said, reverting back to his “stolen” election playbook.
“How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”
Trump wrote that post Monday, Nov. 9, the same day the White House sent a warning letter to Democrats, warning that congressional investigations into the administration could amount to “blatant criminality,” PBS News reported.
Of course that’s patently false. Oversight is part of Congress’s job.
PBS reported that White House counsel Will Scharf sent the letter to Rep. Robert Garcia, whom many expect to lead the House Oversight Committee when Democrats take over in January.
It appears the letter was a response to Garcia’s message to Trump and his cronies after their major election defeat. Garcia sent a social media post with just two words. “LAWYER UP.”
Citing Punchbowl News, PBS reported that Scharf wrote that “threats to executive branch officials designed to deter them from public service, or processes designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient may cross the line into blatant criminality.”
Garcia wasn’t having any of it, saying in response that “it appears Donald Trump has something to hide.” He also noted that Congress doesn’t operate under “permission of the White House.”
“Congress has wide latitude to conduct investigations and oversight, an authority inherent in the power to legislate,” he pointed out. “The American people voted overwhelmingly for us to pass laws to root out corruption and abuse.”
