Rolling Stone spoke with diehard Trump supporters who waited hours in the snow to watch the former president stump in New Hampshire

Fresh off a historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump traveled to New Hampshire and complained to his supporters that he had to leave the White House after losing the 2020 election.

Fans had lined up for hours outside in the snow for a chance to see the presumptive Republican nominee in person — excited over his Iowa win, appearing confident he will once again be president.

During his speech, Trump said it “was ridiculous that we had to leave, but we had to leave, we have to follow the laws of our land.” He quickly doubled down on his 2020 election lies: “They don’t investigate the people that cheated in the election. They investigate the people that understand they cheated and go after them. But they don’t investigate the people who cheated like hell. We have to have fair and free elections.”

Of course, Trump is being prosecuted for attempting to rig the 2020 election and overturn the results in key swing states — and as Rolling Stone has reported, he and his allies are working diligently to predetermine the results of the 2024 election and make sure they favor Trump.

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    “He’s a family man,” Jerry Bolduc says about Trump. “He believes in God and in America first. And that’s what I’m all about.”

    It’s like his fans don’t actually know the first thing about him…

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      They can’t say “I like abusing women and minorities and wish it was a more acceptable hobby so I’m voting Trump” – the Unite the Right rally showed them that plausible deniability builds platforms and going mask off takes them away.

      But they can say clearly bullshit things like this and everyone does them the favor of pretending they actually mean it.

      If someone doesn’t politely play along, they’ve been coached at how to manipulate their way out of it with by saying things like “the left just calls everyone they don’t like a Nazi”.

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      Well, of course. There were no white leather couches, no velvet Elvis paintings. The toilets weren’t even made of gold. Absolutely no culture of any kind.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Fresh off a historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump traveled to New Hampshire and complained to his supporters that he had to leave the White House after losing the 2020 election.

    Fans had lined up for hours outside in the snow for a chance to see the presumptive Republican nominee in person — excited over his Iowa win, appearing confident he will once again be president.

    Dozens of Trump supporters stood outside the venue for hours Tuesday as heavy snow fell, leaving thick ice on attendees’ cars.

    During his speech, Trump expressed confidence he’ll win New Hampshire next week, but he called on his supporters to help him build a significant margin of victory.

    “Nikki Haley is counting on the Democrats and liberals to infiltrate your Republican primary,” Trump warned during his speech Tuesday, adding it is “artificially boosting her numbers here.”

    The pro-Trump super PAC Make America Great Again Inc. has been running ads in New Hampshire attacking Haley on immigration, using language similar to the Adolf Hitler-like “poisoning the blood” rhetoric Trump has employed on the campaign trail.


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    I never see anyone bring this up, and I truly understand that all of our logical arguments don’t work on Trump’s supporters, but election fraud at the level of a Presidential election? The fuck?!

    What does that even look like? How was it done? How were several thousand key people, at the very least, convinced to fake it for Biden and yet no one has stepped forward in guilt? How has the entire Trump machine not been able to unearth the slightest bit of evidence?

    One redditor broke it down succinctly in 2020, “We’re smart enough to have faked it and didn’t eliminate Mitch McConnell?!” These people literally don’t understand that all those votes are scored on the same ballots.

    I can go on all night, but I know this, Bill Clinton couldn’t get a bj in the Oval Office and keep it quiet.

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      You’re talking about people who literally think there’s body doubles ruling the country or second military systems with one controlled by Biden and another still by Trump.

      The education entrance polling for the Iowa caucuses was eye opening, even being in line with what I expected.

      Have a post-graduate degree? 75% Voted for someone other than Trump.

      Didn’t go to college? 75% Trump.