- 28 Sep 2021 12:53
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Now this is funny! 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/opinions ... index.html
Dean Obeidallah of CNN wrote:Has hell frozen over? Are pigs now airborne? Has Donald Trump stopped lying?!
Impossible, you might be thinking. Well, consider another impossibility that happened this weekend: I found myself agreeing with something Trump said at his rally Saturday in Georgia.
No, not his laundry list of lies about the 2020 election. It was Trump's remark that having Stacey Abrams as governor of the Peach State would be "better" than current GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
As shocking as it is for me to agree with the man who allegedly incited the January 6 act of "domestic terrorism" (an accusation he denies), Trump is 100% correct about Abrams. But his comments this weekend weren't about the truth that the political powerhouse, who's the former minority leader for the Georgia House of Representatives, would be excellent in Kemp's position. It was all about his anger at Kemp -- which reveals so much about how dangerous the GOP is to our democracy under Trump's leadership.
In 2018, Trump endorsed Kemp in a hotly contested primary. But two years later, Trump turned on Kemp for the sole reason that the governor refused to join Trump's un-American effort to overturn the 2020 election, choosing to remain more loyal to the US Constitution.
Kemp wasn't the only Republican state official who refused to help Trump subvert the will of voters -- and Trump said as much at his rally in Perry on Saturday as he slammed various politicians, like "terrible lieutenant governor" Geoff Duncan. But it was Kemp who was the focus of the disgraced former President's speech, with Trump calling the governor "disastrous" and repeatedly telling his fans Abrams would be preferable for the job.
Abrams hasn't announced if she's running in 2022. Still, at one point during the rally, Trump said, "Stacey, would you like to take his place? It's OK with me." He also told his adoring fans that "having (Abrams), I think, might be better than having your existing governor, if you want to know the truth -- might very well be better."
On that, Trump is absolutely right. Abrams would be a much, much better governor for the people of Georgia than Kemp, who signed a sweeping voter suppression measure into law earlier this year that not only makes it illegal to provide water or food to people waiting to vote, but alarmingly could pave the way for state GOP officials to overturn election results. Recent reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution also found that Kemp's administration dismissed advice from health experts during the pandemic, was slow to act at the outset and placed economic concerns over protecting residents -- conclusions that Kemp's team has disputed.
This, however, is not the first time Trump has slammed Kemp for not conspiring with him to overturn the 2020 election -- despite three recounts affirming Biden's win. At a December rally in Georgia in advance of the January 5 Senate run-off, Trump trashed Kemp for not assisting him to illegally overturn the election, leading the crowd to boo Kemp. And on the night before the run-off, Trump was back in Georgia, again denouncing Kemp for not joining in his coup attempt. The exiting President vowed that he would be back in the state "in a year and a half, campaigning against your governor."
And just days before Saturday's rally, Trump told a conservative radio host that if somebody ran against Kemp in the primary, "they'd win." He then added more ominous words for Kemp's future prospects: "He's not going to be able to win the general election anyway, because the base isn't going to show up for him."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/opinions ... index.html
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