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angrychair

(12,668 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:05 PM 19 hrs ago

Trump to Declare Georgia Senators Illegitimate

Trump is set to declare Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as illegitimate senators due to fraud and corrupt elections which, among many things, caused him to lose the 2020 election.

Things are about to get very, very, very bad,” posted podcaster Chris Mowrey. Similarly Shannon Watts, the New York Times bestselling author of “Fired Up,” wrote that this means there will be “a Civil War instead of midterm elections.”

Journalist Pedro L. Gonzalez struck an ominous note by pointing out that Trump also plans on declaring Georgia’s two senators, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, to be illegitimate.


This is absolutely bonkers. I genuinely believe at this point that Mango Mussolini is actively trying to trigger a domestic conflict of some kind.

We are in serious trouble, this administration is becoming increasingly unstable and desperate.

Reference:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/legal-experts-alarmed-as-trump-plans-to-claim-georgia-s-dem-senators-are-illegitimate/ar-AA27PJsl
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Trump to Declare Georgia Senators Illegitimate (Original Post) angrychair 19 hrs ago OP
The less attention you give him on this, the better. Nt BootinUp 19 hrs ago #1
He can declare them lemon doughnuts if he wants Boo1 19 hrs ago #2
What a GREAT line!!!!!! MyOwnPeace 17 hrs ago #18
He does not have the authority to mess with the Democratic Georgia Senators. Time to Impeach !!!!!!! Trueblue1968 16 hrs ago #37
Article I, Section 5, Clause 1: struggle4progress 19 hrs ago #3
Yep Kaleva 19 hrs ago #5
What a mean thing to say....... MyOwnPeace 17 hrs ago #21
I think there are at least some birds whose brains BlueKota 5 hrs ago #59
He can go ahead and claim all he wants Kaleva 19 hrs ago #4
The man who fraudulently asked for eleven thousand extra votes has the gall to question the Georgia Baitball Blogger 18 hrs ago #6
Wow! What a coincidence! johnnyfins 18 hrs ago #7
Defund the presidency, like right now. The Country could run itself better than with this mad, wanna-be king shitshow. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 18 hrs ago #8
Where are the Epstein files? How is the Iran War going? How is the ballroom? Is the Reflecting Pool still a swamp? dalton99a 18 hrs ago #9
Time to call a general strike!!! Coventina 18 hrs ago #10
Should we be scared? hookaleft 18 hrs ago #11
No Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #19
marc elias is working non-stop on all this. Just look at his website. Amaryllis 16 hrs ago #35
And that carries no legal weight whatsoever. RockRaven 18 hrs ago #12
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone and shouldn't be surprised when it gets much, much worse. ImNotGod 18 hrs ago #13
It's America 31st Street Bridge 5 hrs ago #52
Old man screaming at clouds. Raftergirl 18 hrs ago #14
He wants so very bigly to call some kind of emergency to delay or suspend midterm elections.. Deuxcents 18 hrs ago #15
He's been laying the groundwork for a while. Attacking African-American history, the history of racism, even LT Barclay 17 hrs ago #16
A 'President' Stirring the Shit. spanone 17 hrs ago #17
As we say in the south... Trueblue Texan 17 hrs ago #20
Okay Republicans Mz Pip 17 hrs ago #22
for republicans, it will never be enough New Breed Leader 8 hrs ago #45
Pure idiocy. He can "declare" anything he wants, that doesn't make it true. Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #23
It's performative bullshit like this that has caused me to trash the unholy Name. usonian 17 hrs ago #24
Under What Authority? Coolgoober 17 hrs ago #25
There is none. Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #30
Crazy fucktard shouts at passing clouds UpInArms 17 hrs ago #26
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! KPN 17 hrs ago #27
It's going to get real interesting in the next 2 days. multigraincracker 17 hrs ago #28
I'm sure he'll try to manufacture some evidence Bayard 17 hrs ago #29
Only BatShitCrazedLoons will believe this, oh wait, that's tens of millions of Deplorables. NoMoreRepugs 17 hrs ago #31
But getting fewer by the minute. Wednesdays 16 hrs ago #41
The Washington Reporter corrected itself. RandySF 17 hrs ago #32
Already chickening out Boo1 16 hrs ago #39
Did it dawn on them that Georgia also elects a ton of Republicans, GoCubsGo 5 hrs ago #58
For the record, here's their tweet in which they withdrew the rumour they'd started muriel_volestrangler 4 hrs ago #61
Good Grief!!! Rhiannon12866 17 hrs ago #33
I Declare Trump Coolgoober 17 hrs ago #34
Beyond bonkers GOP know it. They carefully avoid talking about his crazy talk and actions BlueWaveNeverEnd 16 hrs ago #36
He can't declare anything he is not the Election CZAR. Historic NY 16 hrs ago #38
Trump has been "actively trying to trigger a domestic conflict" since...... ColoringFool 16 hrs ago #40
Dry your eyes, Dump GenThePerservering 15 hrs ago #42
If the Internet and WWW Stacey Grove 11 hrs ago #43
Trump to Make Primetime Address Thursday Emile 11 hrs ago #44
"Appreciate the assist!" -- Ossoff 2028 Campaign Ruby the Liberal 7 hrs ago #46
Both Warnock and Ossoff made it into runoff elections karynnj 6 hrs ago #47
It's a dog whistle, wetting of the toes purr-rat beauty 6 hrs ago #48
Madinmaryland to Declare President Trump Illegitimate madinmaryland 5 hrs ago #49
They weren't even elected in the 2020 General Election! obamanut2012 5 hrs ago #50
Just a minor detail DFW 5 hrs ago #54
He can declare it all he wants sboatcar 5 hrs ago #51
The only illegitimate thing in this picture is Trump. Initech 5 hrs ago #53
He wasn't even eligible for the 2024 election, johnnyfins 5 hrs ago #55
He is a legitimate piece of shit! Initech 4 hrs ago #60
I dunno. I believe Kransnov is illegitimate and we're still stuck with him. no_hypocrisy 5 hrs ago #56
He thinks he will get away with it because of his BlueKota 5 hrs ago #57

Boo1

(801 posts)
2. He can declare them lemon doughnuts if he wants
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:09 PM
19 hrs ago

he has no authority over them or any mechanism to remove them.

His demented mind thinks this will actually mean something. All that will happen is he'll give Democrats their best fundraising day in history.

MyOwnPeace

(17,713 posts)
18. What a GREAT line!!!!!!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:47 PM
17 hrs ago

"He can declare them lemon doughnuts if he wants"

Only those high on 'Drinkin' the lemonade' will be expecting 'doughnuts' with their next round of lemonade!

Trueblue1968

(19,379 posts)
37. He does not have the authority to mess with the Democratic Georgia Senators. Time to Impeach !!!!!!!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:47 PM
16 hrs ago

struggle4progress

(127,476 posts)
3. Article I, Section 5, Clause 1:
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:19 PM
19 hrs ago

"Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members"

He's a birdbrained tinpot wannabe dictator surrounded by a small cluster of gutless lickspittles who let him ride them like little hobbyhorses

MyOwnPeace

(17,713 posts)
21. What a mean thing to say.......
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:51 PM
17 hrs ago
"He's a birdbrained tinpot wannabe dictator surrounded by a small cluster of gutless lickspittles who let him ride them like little hobbyhorses."

You do realize that the poor guy just lost his favorite ride on the 'Trumpworld Merry-go-Round' - right?

BlueKota

(5,629 posts)
59. I think there are at least some birds whose brains
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:28 AM
5 hrs ago

work better than his.I read Crows for instance recognize faces of humans they've seen before. Tsf actually mistook another woman for his wife.

Baitball Blogger

(53,022 posts)
6. The man who fraudulently asked for eleven thousand extra votes has the gall to question the Georgia
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:29 PM
18 hrs ago

election.

This is going to end the same as the IRS lawsuit. He won't provide enough information and evidence to make his case.

johnnyfins

(4,220 posts)
7. Wow! What a coincidence!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:34 PM
18 hrs ago

The Senate is in danger of turning blue and "Newly Declassified" reports say that two dems are illegitimate?

Why wait until now? You could have declassified them on day one of your second term. Diaper Donny is as full of shit as ever.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,495 posts)
8. Defund the presidency, like right now. The Country could run itself better than with this mad, wanna-be king shitshow.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:40 PM
18 hrs ago

dalton99a

(96,645 posts)
9. Where are the Epstein files? How is the Iran War going? How is the ballroom? Is the Reflecting Pool still a swamp?
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:41 PM
18 hrs ago

etc. etc

RockRaven

(20,196 posts)
12. And that carries no legal weight whatsoever.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:58 PM
18 hrs ago

It justifies no action by any other party in any way. Whatever actions anyone takes in response to that statement are just as illegitimate as if that party had taken that action apropos of absolutely nothing.

ImNotGod

(1,377 posts)
13. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone and shouldn't be surprised when it gets much, much worse.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:00 PM
18 hrs ago

We either take to the streets like European and Asian countries do or we bend over and take. If shit hits the fan and I believe it will I don't think the US military will kill their friends and family for a bloated, rapist, pedo russian agent.

31st Street Bridge

(278 posts)
52. It's America
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:01 AM
5 hrs ago

We'll bend over and take it. We're far too lazy and cowardly to do what really needs to be done at this point.
He could go all-out-Hitler on us and it will just keep going.
The ignorance and passivity of Americans in the face of a full-scale fascist takeover is so frustrating.

Deuxcents

(28,495 posts)
15. He wants so very bigly to call some kind of emergency to delay or suspend midterm elections..
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:26 PM
18 hrs ago

He’s gonna get more desperate and ridiculous so our call to duty is to VOTE…even if we have to crawl to the polls, we gotta vote 🗳️

LT Barclay

(3,256 posts)
16. He's been laying the groundwork for a while. Attacking African-American history, the history of racism, even
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:38 PM
17 hrs ago

within the military; and someone is his accomplice as I don't believe he personally knew of the monument in Belgium. Attacking hispanics with ICE. So there is a bigger plot to trigger violence around the election.

The SCOTUS is either blackmailed or otherwise neutralized also. Get ready for a rough ride. We should have asked for international election observers after Jan 6, 2021 during Biden's term.

Trueblue Texan

(4,765 posts)
20. As we say in the south...
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:50 PM
17 hrs ago

You can shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first.

This is unconstitutional. He may as well start shitting in his hand.

Mz Pip

(28,562 posts)
22. Okay Republicans
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:52 PM
17 hrs ago

When is enough enough?

He’s fuckiing nuts. Do something, for godsake.

New Breed Leader

(941 posts)
45. for republicans, it will never be enough
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 08:25 AM
8 hrs ago

as long as they maintain power, trump can do whatever he wants.

Wiz Imp

(11,071 posts)
23. Pure idiocy. He can "declare" anything he wants, that doesn't make it true.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:54 PM
17 hrs ago

He's so stupid, he doesn't understand that even if there was "fraud" in the 2020 election (there wasn't), Raphel Warnock was reelected in 2022 for which Trump is not alleging fraud so there is no way he is illegitimate.

usonian

(27,543 posts)
24. It's performative bullshit like this that has caused me to trash the unholy Name.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 10:55 PM
17 hrs ago

Read my "Take Action" posts please.

IT'S ALL TO DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN.

Sorry I looked at the home page, which ignores trash and ignore lists.

KPN

(17,633 posts)
27. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:06 PM
17 hrs ago

I’m really, really crotchety this evening. When in hell is this fucker just gonna die? Lyndsey was a good sign. Time for a better one. Innocent lives are being wasted.

Bayard

(30,914 posts)
29. I'm sure he'll try to manufacture some evidence
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:07 PM
17 hrs ago

It won't matter. Both senators and Pres. Biden were sworn in, and served their terms. Throwing all the taxpayer money in the world to try to convince anybody differently is just sick.

He just cannot accept loss. If he wasn't so portly, I'd swear he lived on sour grapes.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,378 posts)
31. Only BatShitCrazedLoons will believe this, oh wait, that's tens of millions of Deplorables.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:14 PM
17 hrs ago

RandySF

(88,741 posts)
32. The Washington Reporter corrected itself.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 11:16 PM
17 hrs ago

The speech will be about Georgia elections in general.

GoCubsGo

(35,114 posts)
58. Did it dawn on them that Georgia also elects a ton of Republicans,
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:15 AM
5 hrs ago

so they can't just single out the two Senate seats? If those two seats are "illegitimate," then so is their Governor and nearly their entire elected state government, including the guy who runs their elections, and 9 of their 14 US House members who are Republicans.

muriel_volestrangler

(107,091 posts)
61. For the record, here's their tweet in which they withdrew the rumour they'd started
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 12:04 PM
4 hrs ago



"President Trump is planning to announce that Georgia's two senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, are illegitimate because of fraud, a well-placed source in Georgia tells us. Announcement could come as soon as tonight."

"UPDATE: The White House tells us President Trump’s speech will not focus on Georgia’s 2020 elections.

Georgia Republican source adds to us that they were notified of speech and the upcoming report’s initial Georgia election
focus in advance. "

So either this obscure far right Washington media source was BSing, or their "Georgia source" was, or their source (eg Trump) was.

ColoringFool

(1,577 posts)
40. Trump has been "actively trying to trigger a domestic conflict" since......
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 12:10 AM
16 hrs ago

AT A MINIMUM the night of the Washington Correspondents Dinner, when Obama roasted him.

AND PROBABLY LONG BEFORE THEN, when Putin took his measure during Trump's quest for a Trump Moscow Hotel and understood that he, Putin, could easily own the amoral American.

IF TRUMP ENJOYED WATCHING THE CAPITOL BUILDING'S BREACHING AND VANDALISM AND VIOLENCE;

IF HE CALLS THE LITERAL DESTRUCTION OF THE WHITE HOUSE "BEAUTIFYING" IT;

IF HE INCESSANTLY CALLS POLITICAL OPPONENTS "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE" AND LEGITIMATE NEWS OUTLETS "FAKE";

IF HE IS ACTIVELY PURSUING THE OBLITERATION OF OUR TRUE HISTORY IN TERMS OF RACE AND GENDER, INCLUDING FIRING WOMEN AND MINORITIES FROM GOVERNMENT JOBS, DESTROYING RECORDS, BANNING BOOKS, CHANGING SIGNS IN NATIONAL PARKS, ETC.;

IF HE STEALS OUR TAX MONIES;

IF HE DOLES OUT DISASTER AID TO AMERICANS BASED ON THEIR STATES' VOTING;

IF HE ELIMINATES FOOD INSPECTIONS AND DISEASE TRACKING;

AND SO MUCH MORE.......

I think one can and ought conclude that TRUMP HATES THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICANS WITH EVERY FIBER OF HIS PSYCHOPATHIC BEING.



GenThePerservering

(4,116 posts)
42. Dry your eyes, Dump
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 12:31 AM
15 hrs ago

Just because Sen Warnock's housing bill passed, you don't have to get all sobby.

Stacey Grove

(261 posts)
43. If the Internet and WWW
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 05:13 AM
11 hrs ago

never went beyond academia/computer science folks, none of this would have ever happened.

karynnj

(61,295 posts)
47. Both Warnock and Ossoff made it into runoff elections
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 09:52 AM
6 hrs ago

in 2020. So, they ran in early 2021 and won the runoffs. Warnock's seat was up in 2022 and he again went into a runoff and won again.

All of these were in elections where the GA Secretary of State was Republican. At this point, you would think that Warnock would be legitimate even if Trump's lies about 2020 were true. Ossoff is ahead in his November race.

In 2002, Sununu defeated Shaheen partly because Republicans hired a company to disable the Manchester GOTV by sending hundreds of calls to their phones. Even though people were charged and convicted for doing this, no one pushed to remove Sununu and make Shaheen Senator. (She became Senator in the next election.)

purr-rat beauty

(1,779 posts)
48. It's a dog whistle, wetting of the toes
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:19 AM
6 hrs ago

He wants a couple things...

Idiots getting violent on these reps
Normalizing this so he can do it elsewhere

DFW

(60,941 posts)
54. Just a minor detail
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:05 AM
5 hrs ago

Trump knows that Jon and Warnock both traveled back in time from January 5th, 2021 to Election Day 2020 to ensure his loss in the state of Georgia.

Initech

(109,826 posts)
53. The only illegitimate thing in this picture is Trump.
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:02 AM
5 hrs ago

He did not win the 2024 election legally. He had help from Elon Musk, Fox News and the Heritage Foundation. Hell, Mike Johnson spelled it out the other day that Fox was essentially running Trump’s protection racket. If we want to take Trump out, we need to take out his protection racket.

johnnyfins

(4,220 posts)
55. He wasn't even eligible for the 2024 election,
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:09 AM
5 hrs ago

According to the 14th amendment. I don't give a shit what SCOTUS said. He fomented an insurrection. We ALL watched it live on tv. NOT eligible. That makes him an illegitimate POTUS.

BlueKota

(5,629 posts)
57. He thinks he will get away with it because of his
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:11 AM
5 hrs ago

ass kissing six on one of the most corrupt SCs ever. I don't trust even one of those 6. Every single one of them deserves impeachment, but it will never happen.

The founders made a big mistake letting the politicians decide who is on the court. At the very least the President should have to choose from a vetted list prepared by a panel of Constitutional Scholars, Lawyers, and respected Judges. No political picks of unqualified people. Unfortunately that would take a Constitutional Convention to change and that opens up a whole other can of worms because if I remember other changes can be offered including undesirable ones.

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