@aaronjmate
Hillary Clinton declared Trump to be an “illegitimate” president based largely on the Russia scam that her campaign concocted. Sounds like denying a result to me.
Trump’s election denial resulted in a three-hour riot. Compare that to the multi-year results of Hillary’s scam: a president and his aides got investigated by the FBI for being Russian assets; campaign members got wiretapped and imprisoned (for unrelated charges); Democrats became obsessed with moronic “collusion” conspiracy theories; diplomacy with Russia got effectively criminalized and relations worsened as a result, fueling Trump killing the INF treaty and deepening the US commitment to a proxy war in Ukraine.
So yes, there is no equivalency between Trump’s election denial scam and Hillary’s election denial scam. One of them has put the whole world in danger.
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@jimsciutto
A four-year-old false equivalency given that only one president has denied the results of an election and attempted to use the powers of the office, including but not limited to allegedly pressuring state election officials and creating false slates of electors, to overturn it. You may also note the pattern: any vote he’s lost he claims is rigged. For instance: the Iowa GOP primary and popular vote in 2016. Other elections are apparently fraud-free, including those of GOP congressman elected on the very same 2020 ballots under the same state election laws as those that supposedly were tampered with.
@aaronjmate
I would argue that Democrats framing Trump as a Russian agent — abetted by the FBI, CIA, and the entire US media — is arguably a much more impactful disinformation campaign 🤷🏻♂️
@jimsciutto
Trump’s attack on the election is arguably the most impactful disinformation operation in recent memory - driven solely by his refusal to accept his loss, he has undermined virtually an entire party’s confidence in the electoral system.
