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Some of President Donald Trump’s most frequent media critics are turning on Democrats’ latest attack on the president, rejecting claims that Trump suggested Iran should "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego.

"Trump's point here is that if he didn't start a war with Iran, then San Diego and LA would be at risk from nuclear war," wrote The Atlantic writer Michael Scherer on X.
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The remarks quickly triggered a fight over what Trump meant, with Democrats and multiple media outlets characterizing them as a suggestion that Iran be allowed to attack the two California cities.

One of the accounts amplifying the clip, Headquarters (@HQNewsNow), previously operated as "KamalaHQ" after originally serving as the Biden campaign’s "BidenHQ" rapid-response account.
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"This isn’t a direct quote from Trump, and I very much don’t think it’s a correct paraphrase. Trump has repeatedly argued that the consequences of the war, like higher gas prices, are a small price to pay compared to what an unchecked Iran could allegedly do," CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said.

"My read: The 'small price to pay' comment refers back to the costs of the war -- like gas prices -- not to the idea of Iran nuking LA and SD," wrote CNN senior reporter Aaron Blake.

"Unpopular opinion: I don’t think Trump was suggesting letting Iran to attack ‘blue cities.’ I think he meant if Iran gets a nuke, LA and San Diego could be targets considering they’re two major West Coast cities," wrote former Trump staffer turned Biden voter Sarah Matthews.

Meanwhile, in gotham city...I mean minnesota...

Ocelot II (133,564 posts)
1. If it was on Instagram it must be true.

Eliot Rosewater (34,665 posts)

Here's what's going to happen, just saw this on Instagram it's exactly what I've been saying for months.

Here's what's going to happen.
Trump loses the midterms. He declares massive voting fraud, calls supporters to attack immediately. GOP refuses to accept results. FBI seizes ballots and voting machines within days.
Results stall for weeks.
Republican officials cancel results in lost districts, order new votes.
Protests erupt. Troops deploy under the Insurrection Act.
January 3, Congress refuses to seat the Democrats. This isn't prediction. It's pattern. They've already done each of these things.


I wanted to add the image from Instagram but I can’t do that with my phone for some reason.


The “here’s what’s going to happen“ line was not mine it was in the Instagram post. I normally phrase it as a prediction. I still have hope it won’t happen.

Ocelot II (133,564 posts)
1. If it was on Instagram it must be true.

William Seger (12,844 posts)
24. Speculation, yes; baseless, no

Escurumbele (4,200 posts)
40. OK, ask yourself this question...Do you believe trump and the GOP are incapable of doing something like that?
After what they did on Jan 6, you don't think they are thinking of ways to disrupt the election, or create chaos after the results go against them? I have also been predicting that chaos will once again happen, trump will once again incite violence. Do I want to be wrong? Of course I do, but we all know the actors, they are criminals willing to do anything to stay in power, and in the case of trump, he knows the Epstein files, investigations on his part as a Russian agent, the grift and robbery of the USA money to him and his family, the disappearing billions taken from Venezuela, the crimes committed by ICE, all of that will come out...there is so much that he needs to protect because otherwise he knows he will spend the last days of his life in jail, at least many of us hope he does.

So...do you really think they are incapable of going through what the post predicts? I hope the prediction is wrong, but the probability is very high.

Before the 2020 elections I emailed with a representative of the DNC, I predicted to him that if trump were to loose that he would incite violence, and I was right. I even told the same thing to a group of friends, some of them were for trump, told them that violence will happen when trump lost, and some of them had to recognize I was right. Again in 2024 I had exchanges with the DNC rep, my question was to ask what the DNC was doing to prevent cheating from the GOP, because I felt there would be, and that is my question today, how is the DNC preparing for what is to come to prevent it from happening?

https://democraticunderground.com/100221548321