His dress rehearsal was in 2012,
In 2012, Trump called the electoral college "a disaster for a democracy."
abcnews.go.com
Donald Trump's 2012 Election Tweetstorm Resurfaces as Popular and Electoral Vote Appear Divided
In 2012, Trump called the electoral college "a disaster for a democracy."
By ADAM KELSEY
November 9, 2016,
"...In additional tweets since deleted, Trump asks why Romney should lose if he received a greater number of votes. Upon the final tally, President Barack Obama defeated Romney in both the popular vote and electoral college.
“He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!” said Trump in one deleted tweet, and “More votes equals a loss … revolution!” in another.
The complaints from 2012 resurfaced earlier in the campaign cycle as Trump began to allege that the election would be rigged. In an interview with ABC News’
George Stephanopoulos on Oct. 26, he was probed about the tweets and said he felt the same about the 2016 election, though ascribed the “rigging” to the media rather than the electoral college.
“I think the system is rigged,” said Trump. “I think it was -- horrible the way [the prior Republican ticket was] treated in the media. The only thing worse is the way I'm being treated. Look, I'm being treated -- hey, it's record-setting bad treatment what I'm getting. It's the greatest pile-on in American history.”.."
Trump relies on his repetition and strategic hissy fits to reinvigorate the permanent "spell" cast on his cultists.
Trump and Flynn had their deplorables absolutely convinced Hillary was guilty and would end up jailed and Flynn was innocent, railroaded into pleading guilty in court, on three occasions. In the end, no crime was found with regard to Hillary, despite Trump's four year, hyper politicization of the DOJ. Flynn accepted a Trump pardon, just like all the other convicted felons who accepted one.
Flynn was still a convicted felon by guilty plea on the day Trump signed his pardon.
District Judge Emmet Sullivan noted that Trump's pardon did not render Flynn innocent.
www.axios.com
Dec 8, 2020
"...What they're saying: "President Trump’s decision to pardon Mr. Flynn is a political decision, not a legal one. Because the law recognizes the President’s political power to pardon, the appropriate course is to dismiss this case as moot," Sullivan wrote in his opinion.
- "[A] pardon does not necessarily render “innocent” a defendant of any alleged violation of the law. Indeed, the Supreme Court has recognized that the acceptance of a pardon implies a “confession” of guilt," Sullivan continued.
- On the question of whether he would have dismissed the case had Trump not issued a pardon, Sullivan wrote that the Justice Department's stated rationales for dropping the charges are "dubious to say the least, arguably overcoming the strong presumption of regularity that usually attaches to prosecutorial decisions." .."
