‘Method To His Madness’: Trump’s Unhinged Rants Serve Darker Purpose, Sanders Says

Republican is starting his election denial early, senator says

While Donald Trump’s recent increase in bizarre comments and claims that are detached from reality all look like signs of an older man in a severe mental decline, they really serve a larger — and more dangerous — purpose for the Republican presidential nominee, according to a prominent progressive lawmaker who himself ran for president twice.

Trump’s drawn attention to himself in recent weeks for a number of his remarks and social media posts, particularly untrue and baseless accusations that photos of the huge crowd at a rally in Detroit for his Democratic opponents were faked with artificial intelligence technology.

While the former president has been widely debunked and mocked for being so out of touch with reality, his outlandish and false claims actually are part of Trump’s plan to delegitimize the 2024 election, according to Sen Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020.

He is preparing his supporters not to even trust reality when he begins to deny the lawful results of the November election in the case that he loses, Sanders said in a statement released Tuesday.

“Donald Trump may be crazy, but he’s not stupid. When he claims that ‘nobody’ showed up at a 10,000 person Harris-Walz rally in Michigan that was live-streamed and widely covered by the media, that it was all AI and that Democrats cheat all of the time, there is a method to his madness,” he said. “Clearly, and dangerously, what Trump is doing is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses. If you can convince your supporters that thousands of people who attended a televised rally do not exist, it will not be hard to convince them that the election returns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere are ‘fake’ and ‘fraudulent.’

“This is what destroying faith in institutions is about. This is what undermining democracy is about. This is what fascism is about,” Sanders added. “This is why must do everything we can to see that Trump is defeated.”

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