US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.
"[Trump] means what he says, we donât take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about âif we lose it will be a bloodbathâ.â
Mr Trumpâs comment that it would âbe a bloodbath for the countryâ if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism.
The Trump campaign, however, said the comment was specifically about the auto industry and had been deliberately taken out of context. It sent a fundraising email which said Trumpâs political opponents and others had been âviciouslyâ misquoting him.
This is his one strength. He can dog whistle as much as he wants because he always carefully chooses his words to add some sort of plausible deniability or innocent interpretation. So his base hears what he canât fully say out loud yet and the media has to carefully tiptoe around interpreting it or lose credibility to his base
Thereâs nothing carefully chosen about it. He just vomits so many words it overwhelms the brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
