[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

No need to wait. I already did, in post 2667. I'm surprised you don't already know about these statements. But for your convenience, here's Clinton:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...40f_story.html

https://twitter.com/bigfootmeds/stat...41314519232512

As far as Abrams:

She joined Dems in claiming "racist" voter suppression in GA: https://www.politifact.com/article/2...y-abrams-gove/

She never conceded the 2018 election, and she claimed in 2019 "We won".
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/03/s...s-concede-nan/

...and she appears to doing it again in 2022, even though early turnout in GA is at a record pace.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...early-turnout/

Regarding Clinton, she saw Trump publicly solicit help from the Russians and reasonably believed that the Russians helped him win the election.

As for Abrams, she reasonably believed that Georgia Republicans passed laws to deliberately suppress the black vote in the wake of SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Trump, OTOH, never had a reason to believe he won and recent sworn testimony demonstrates he (and everyone around him) knew he lost and had planned his antics well before the election. The testimony revealed that he told DOJ officials to simply (and falsely) announce election fraud and he and his Republican Congressional friends would "do the rest." He also said to a White House staffer not to admit he lost because "it was too embarrassing." Knowing that he lost, he planned an autocoup and incited a riot to pressure Congress to install him as President.

In short, under scrutiny your comparison falls apart completely and is a BS post-facto rationalization of Trump's outrageous and criminal behavior.