This is way up there with the stupidest excuses Trump has ever made:

“Maybe I’m better off losing the debate, I’ll make sure he stays. I’ll lose the debate on purpose, maybe I’ll do something like that,” Trump said during an interview with Real America’s Voices the day he visited with Congressional Republicans.

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    Researchers will be studying Trump and his followers for decades to come. A gold mine of data to help them better understand the mechanisms of authoritarian populism and cognitive dissonance.

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    This is press control prior to the event. This is so he can say that he didn’t lose due only to his own incompetence.

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    Or that whole Sleepy Biden bullshit, as Trump napped during his fucking trials.

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    I always thought I hated career politicians until trump came around. The difference in skill sets between someone who spent a lifetime navigating politics and someone who spent a lifetime conning people is monumental.

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        But even if one happened to win, there’s a chance that they both die. I’m going to say that their replacements would guarantee an absolute shitshow at this point in the election cycle.

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    I wouldn’t put it past Trump to start describing Biden as a “Master Debater”. It has the level of intellectual discourse we expect from Donald Trump.

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      not really but he set the bar for biden so low somebody probably reminded him that if biden strings three words together he’s gonna seem way better now. so now TFG is trying to set expectations the other way. he literally said “maybe I’ll lose on purpose” like a fucking 7 year old.