Trump Orders Cultists To Act As Poll Monitors: Watch All The “Thieving And Stealing And Robbing That They Do”

The Daily Beast reports:

It used to be unthinkable that a U.S. president would effectively encourage voter intimidation at the polls—but no longer. In an extraordinary call to action at his North Carolina rally Tuesday, President Donald Trump urged his supporters to gather at polling places in November and take it upon themselves to monitor the election.

Whipping his fans up into a frenzy with baseless fear-mongering, he warned them to expect “thieving, and stealing and robbing” at the polls. “Watch it. Be poll watchers when you go there. Watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do. Because this is important. We win North Carolina, we win,” said the president.

The campaign planted some people in masks in the stands behind Trump, but few in the main crowd were wearing them.

Trump begins his rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina by bragging about how packed the crowd is during a pandemic pic.twitter.com/JIkwnThP84

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Trump makes stuff up: “Mexico is paying for the wall, just so you understand. They don’t say that. They never say it. But we’re gonna charge a small fee at the border. You know, the toll booths.” pic.twitter.com/Vs9i2fQHiG

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Trump urges his supporters to be “poll watchers” on Election Day.

“Watch all the stealing and robbing they do. This is important.” pic.twitter.com/xmI5w9xUYX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 8, 2020