He deleted some of them, but the Internet has memories… and CNN brings it all back up this morning. Timely, that’s for sure. It seems Trump went ballistic on Twitter on Election night 2012, raging against the outcome and insisting it was all rigged, stolen, a fraud, a sham, a travesty.
Do the following tweets sound familiar?
And more deleted tweets preserved here by New York Magazine:
“More votes equals a loss… revolution!”
“The phoney electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!” (← sic)
In other words, what Trump is doing now, screaming to the world that Democrats don’t win elections, we only steal them -- is nothing new for him.
It would be interesting to ask him about these 2012 tweets, at tomorrow night’s debate. How, exactly, does Trump claim that President Obama “stole” the election from Mitt Romney?
So here we go again. Maybe he’ll decide to be more statesmanlike when Hillary defeats him overwhelmingly on Election Night 2016.
Or maybe fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly... and on the night of November 8, Donald Trump will do what he does. Punching American democracy in the face, repeatedly, before he goes to bed for the night.