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angrychair

(12,668 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:05 PM 13 hrs ago

Trump to Declare Georgia Senators Illegitimate

Trump is set to declare Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as illegitimate senators due to fraud and corrupt elections which, among many things, caused him to lose the 2020 election.

Things are about to get very, very, very bad,” posted podcaster Chris Mowrey. Similarly Shannon Watts, the New York Times bestselling author of “Fired Up,” wrote that this means there will be “a Civil War instead of midterm elections.”

Journalist Pedro L. Gonzalez struck an ominous note by pointing out that Trump also plans on declaring Georgia’s two senators, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, to be illegitimate.


This is absolutely bonkers. I genuinely believe at this point that Mango Mussolini is actively trying to trigger a domestic conflict of some kind.

We are in serious trouble, this administration is becoming increasingly unstable and desperate.

Reference:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/legal-experts-alarmed-as-trump-plans-to-claim-georgia-s-dem-senators-are-illegitimate/ar-AA27PJsl
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Trump to Declare Georgia Senators Illegitimate (Original Post) angrychair 13 hrs ago OP
The less attention you give him on this, the better. Nt BootinUp 13 hrs ago #1
He can declare them lemon doughnuts if he wants Boo1 13 hrs ago #2
What a GREAT line!!!!!! MyOwnPeace 11 hrs ago #18
He does not have the authority to mess with the Democratic Georgia Senators. Time to Impeach !!!!!!! Trueblue1968 10 hrs ago #37
Article I, Section 5, Clause 1: struggle4progress 13 hrs ago #3
Yep Kaleva 13 hrs ago #5
What a mean thing to say....... MyOwnPeace 11 hrs ago #21
He can go ahead and claim all he wants Kaleva 13 hrs ago #4
The man who fraudulently asked for eleven thousand extra votes has the gall to question the Georgia Baitball Blogger 12 hrs ago #6
Wow! What a coincidence! johnnyfins 12 hrs ago #7
Defund the presidency, like right now. The Country could run itself better than with this mad, wanna-be king shitshow. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 12 hrs ago #8
Where are the Epstein files? How is the Iran War going? How is the ballroom? Is the Reflecting Pool still a swamp? dalton99a 12 hrs ago #9
Time to call a general strike!!! Coventina 12 hrs ago #10
Should we be scared? hookaleft 12 hrs ago #11
No Wiz Imp 11 hrs ago #19
marc elias is working non-stop on all this. Just look at his website. Amaryllis 10 hrs ago #35
And that carries no legal weight whatsoever. RockRaven 12 hrs ago #12
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone and shouldn't be surprised when it gets much, much worse. ImNotGod 12 hrs ago #13
Old man screaming at clouds. Raftergirl 12 hrs ago #14
He wants so very bigly to call some kind of emergency to delay or suspend midterm elections.. Deuxcents 12 hrs ago #15
He's been laying the groundwork for a while. Attacking African-American history, the history of racism, even LT Barclay 11 hrs ago #16
A 'President' Stirring the Shit. spanone 11 hrs ago #17
As we say in the south... Trueblue Texan 11 hrs ago #20
Okay Republicans Mz Pip 11 hrs ago #22
for republicans, it will never be enough New Breed Leader 2 hrs ago #45
Pure idiocy. He can "declare" anything he wants, that doesn't make it true. Wiz Imp 11 hrs ago #23
It's performative bullshit like this that has caused me to trash the unholy Name. usonian 11 hrs ago #24
Under What Authority? Coolgoober 11 hrs ago #25
There is none. Wiz Imp 11 hrs ago #30
Crazy fucktard shouts at passing clouds UpInArms 11 hrs ago #26
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! KPN 11 hrs ago #27
It's going to get real interesting in the next 2 days. multigraincracker 11 hrs ago #28
I'm sure he'll try to manufacture some evidence Bayard 11 hrs ago #29
Only BatShitCrazedLoons will believe this, oh wait, that's tens of millions of Deplorables. NoMoreRepugs 11 hrs ago #31
But getting fewer by the minute. Wednesdays 9 hrs ago #41
The Washington Reporter corrected itself. RandySF 11 hrs ago #32
Already chickening out Boo1 10 hrs ago #39
Good Grief!!! Rhiannon12866 11 hrs ago #33
I Declare Trump Coolgoober 11 hrs ago #34
Beyond bonkers GOP know it. They carefully avoid talking about his crazy talk and actions BlueWaveNeverEnd 10 hrs ago #36
He can't declare anything he is not the Election CZAR. Historic NY 10 hrs ago #38
Trump has been "actively trying to trigger a domestic conflict" since...... ColoringFool 10 hrs ago #40
Dry your eyes, Dump GenThePerservering 9 hrs ago #42
If the Internet and WWW Stacey Grove 5 hrs ago #43
Trump to Make Primetime Address Thursday Emile 5 hrs ago #44
"Appreciate the assist!" -- Ossoff 2028 Campaign Ruby the Liberal 1 hr ago #46
Both Warnock and Ossoff made it into runoff elections karynnj 34 min ago #47
It's a dog whistle, wetting of the toes purr-rat beauty 6 min ago #48

Boo1

(796 posts)
2. He can declare them lemon doughnuts if he wants
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:09 PM
13 hrs ago

he has no authority over them or any mechanism to remove them.

His demented mind thinks this will actually mean something. All that will happen is he'll give Democrats their best fundraising day in history.

MyOwnPeace

(17,713 posts)
18. What a GREAT line!!!!!!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:47 PM
11 hrs ago

"He can declare them lemon doughnuts if he wants"

Only those high on 'Drinkin' the lemonade' will be expecting 'doughnuts' with their next round of lemonade!

Trueblue1968

(19,378 posts)
37. He does not have the authority to mess with the Democratic Georgia Senators. Time to Impeach !!!!!!!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:47 PM
10 hrs ago

struggle4progress

(127,470 posts)
3. Article I, Section 5, Clause 1:
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:19 PM
13 hrs ago

"Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members"

He's a birdbrained tinpot wannabe dictator surrounded by a small cluster of gutless lickspittles who let him ride them like little hobbyhorses

MyOwnPeace

(17,713 posts)
21. What a mean thing to say.......
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:51 PM
11 hrs ago
"He's a birdbrained tinpot wannabe dictator surrounded by a small cluster of gutless lickspittles who let him ride them like little hobbyhorses."

You do realize that the poor guy just lost his favorite ride on the 'Trumpworld Merry-go-Round' - right?

Baitball Blogger

(53,018 posts)
6. The man who fraudulently asked for eleven thousand extra votes has the gall to question the Georgia
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:29 PM
12 hrs ago

election.

This is going to end the same as the IRS lawsuit. He won't provide enough information and evidence to make his case.

johnnyfins

(4,214 posts)
7. Wow! What a coincidence!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:34 PM
12 hrs ago

The Senate is in danger of turning blue and "Newly Declassified" reports say that two dems are illegitimate?

Why wait until now? You could have declassified them on day one of your second term. Diaper Donny is as full of shit as ever.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,492 posts)
8. Defund the presidency, like right now. The Country could run itself better than with this mad, wanna-be king shitshow.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:40 PM
12 hrs ago

dalton99a

(96,637 posts)
9. Where are the Epstein files? How is the Iran War going? How is the ballroom? Is the Reflecting Pool still a swamp?
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:41 PM
12 hrs ago

etc. etc

RockRaven

(20,196 posts)
12. And that carries no legal weight whatsoever.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:58 PM
12 hrs ago

It justifies no action by any other party in any way. Whatever actions anyone takes in response to that statement are just as illegitimate as if that party had taken that action apropos of absolutely nothing.

ImNotGod

(1,375 posts)
13. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone and shouldn't be surprised when it gets much, much worse.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:00 PM
12 hrs ago

We either take to the streets like European and Asian countries do or we bend over and take. If shit hits the fan and I believe it will I don't think the US military will kill their friends and family for a bloated, rapist, pedo russian agent.

Deuxcents

(28,493 posts)
15. He wants so very bigly to call some kind of emergency to delay or suspend midterm elections..
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:26 PM
12 hrs ago

He’s gonna get more desperate and ridiculous so our call to duty is to VOTE…even if we have to crawl to the polls, we gotta vote 🗳️

LT Barclay

(3,256 posts)
16. He's been laying the groundwork for a while. Attacking African-American history, the history of racism, even
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:38 PM
11 hrs ago

within the military; and someone is his accomplice as I don't believe he personally knew of the monument in Belgium. Attacking hispanics with ICE. So there is a bigger plot to trigger violence around the election.

The SCOTUS is either blackmailed or otherwise neutralized also. Get ready for a rough ride. We should have asked for international election observers after Jan 6, 2021 during Biden's term.

Trueblue Texan

(4,765 posts)
20. As we say in the south...
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:50 PM
11 hrs ago

You can shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first.

This is unconstitutional. He may as well start shitting in his hand.

Mz Pip

(28,562 posts)
22. Okay Republicans
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:52 PM
11 hrs ago

When is enough enough?

He’s fuckiing nuts. Do something, for godsake.

New Breed Leader

(941 posts)
45. for republicans, it will never be enough
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 08:25 AM
2 hrs ago

as long as they maintain power, trump can do whatever he wants.

Wiz Imp

(11,069 posts)
23. Pure idiocy. He can "declare" anything he wants, that doesn't make it true.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:54 PM
11 hrs ago

He's so stupid, he doesn't understand that even if there was "fraud" in the 2020 election (there wasn't), Raphel Warnock was reelected in 2022 for which Trump is not alleging fraud so there is no way he is illegitimate.

usonian

(27,536 posts)
24. It's performative bullshit like this that has caused me to trash the unholy Name.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:55 PM
11 hrs ago

Read my "Take Action" posts please.

IT'S ALL TO DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN.

Sorry I looked at the home page, which ignores trash and ignore lists.

KPN

(17,633 posts)
27. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:06 PM
11 hrs ago

I’m really, really crotchety this evening. When in hell is this fucker just gonna die? Lyndsey was a good sign. Time for a better one. Innocent lives are being wasted.

Bayard

(30,910 posts)
29. I'm sure he'll try to manufacture some evidence
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:07 PM
11 hrs ago

It won't matter. Both senators and Pres. Biden were sworn in, and served their terms. Throwing all the taxpayer money in the world to try to convince anybody differently is just sick.

He just cannot accept loss. If he wasn't so portly, I'd swear he lived on sour grapes.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,377 posts)
31. Only BatShitCrazedLoons will believe this, oh wait, that's tens of millions of Deplorables.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:14 PM
11 hrs ago

RandySF

(88,740 posts)
32. The Washington Reporter corrected itself.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:16 PM
11 hrs ago

The speech will be about Georgia elections in general.

ColoringFool

(1,575 posts)
40. Trump has been "actively trying to trigger a domestic conflict" since......
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 12:10 AM
10 hrs ago

AT A MINIMUM the night of the Washington Correspondents Dinner, when Obama roasted him.

AND PROBABLY LONG BEFORE THEN, when Putin took his measure during Trump's quest for a Trump Moscow Hotel and understood that he, Putin, could easily own the amoral American.

IF TRUMP ENJOYED WATCHING THE CAPITOL BUILDING'S BREACHING AND VANDALISM AND VIOLENCE;

IF HE CALLS THE LITERAL DESTRUCTION OF THE WHITE HOUSE "BEAUTIFYING" IT;

IF HE INCESSANTLY CALLS POLITICAL OPPONENTS "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE" AND LEGITIMATE NEWS OUTLETS "FAKE";

IF HE IS ACTIVELY PURSUING THE OBLITERATION OF OUR TRUE HISTORY IN TERMS OF RACE AND GENDER, INCLUDING FIRING WOMEN AND MINORITIES FROM GOVERNMENT JOBS, DESTROYING RECORDS, BANNING BOOKS, CHANGING SIGNS IN NATIONAL PARKS, ETC.;

IF HE STEALS OUR TAX MONIES;

IF HE DOLES OUT DISASTER AID TO AMERICANS BASED ON THEIR STATES' VOTING;

IF HE ELIMINATES FOOD INSPECTIONS AND DISEASE TRACKING;

AND SO MUCH MORE.......

I think one can and ought conclude that TRUMP HATES THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICANS WITH EVERY FIBER OF HIS PSYCHOPATHIC BEING.



GenThePerservering

(4,116 posts)
42. Dry your eyes, Dump
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 12:31 AM
9 hrs ago

Just because Sen Warnock's housing bill passed, you don't have to get all sobby.

Stacey Grove

(261 posts)
43. If the Internet and WWW
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 05:13 AM
5 hrs ago

never went beyond academia/computer science folks, none of this would have ever happened.

karynnj

(61,294 posts)
47. Both Warnock and Ossoff made it into runoff elections
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 09:52 AM
34 min ago

in 2020. So, they ran in early 2021 and won the runoffs. Warnock's seat was up in 2022 and he again went into a runoff and won again.

All of these were in elections where the GA Secretary of State was Republican. At this point, you would think that Warnock would be legitimate even if Trump's lies about 2020 were true. Ossoff is ahead in his November race.

In 2002, Sununu defeated Shaheen partly because Republicans hired a company to disable the Manchester GOTV by sending hundreds of calls to their phones. Even though people were charged and convicted for doing this, no one pushed to remove Sununu and make Shaheen Senator. (She became Senator in the next election.)

purr-rat beauty

(1,770 posts)
48. It's a dog whistle, wetting of the toes
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:19 AM
6 min ago

He wants a couple things...

Idiots getting violent on these reps
Normalizing this so he can do it elsewhere

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