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senseandsensibility

(24,719 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:05 PM 23 hrs ago

Okay, so trump just posted his real reason for starting a war with Iran. Watch the MSM ignore it.

According to Ron Filipkowski he just posted that Iran interfered in the 2020 and 2024 elections and now they are facing renewed war with the US.

He laying it all out there. It's about the elections. This should be the headline.

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Okay, so trump just posted his real reason for starting a war with Iran. Watch the MSM ignore it. (Original Post) senseandsensibility 23 hrs ago OP
K&R mvd 23 hrs ago #1
Let's hope that Dems seize on this remark senseandsensibility 22 hrs ago #2
And do what with it? flvegan 20 hrs ago #18
What would they do with it? Turn it into fundraising appeals? lees1975 20 hrs ago #21
Iran did not have a hacker footprint back then. Baitball Blogger 22 hrs ago #3
Whether he actually believes that Iran interfered I don't know senseandsensibility 22 hrs ago #4
What I'm hoping for is that his claim is so far fetched that the media and Congress will seize this as Baitball Blogger 22 hrs ago #5
"Iran did not have a hacker footprint back then." Codifer 20 hrs ago #15
If Iran did anything in 2016 and 2020, it would have been to help Trump Bluetus 17 hrs ago #27
The things we don't know. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #32
So he needs to kill people who had nothing to do with it. NameAlreadyTaken 22 hrs ago #6
Apparently senseandsensibility 22 hrs ago #7
Man????? bdamomma 20 hrs ago #17
Oh he lives his life to revenge and avenge everything and everybody who ever crossed allegorical oracle 20 hrs ago #19
My point is that he is an adult with awesome powers and responsibilities senseandsensibility 19 hrs ago #22
Well bdamomma 17 hrs ago #24
Trump has accused several countries of interfering with the 2020 election. Lonestarblue 21 hrs ago #8
I'd love to see someone with the funds KS Toronado 21 hrs ago #10
Bingo popsdenver 20 hrs ago #11
Yep -- still recall one of the hackers was identified using the name of "Fuzzy Bear." nt allegorical oracle 20 hrs ago #20
Hello Congress. Its time to do your fucking job. OLDMDDEM 21 hrs ago #9
+10000000 bdamomma 17 hrs ago #25
Um, Epstein??? Oh, and Kushners zionist dreams topped off w/ tons of $$$$$ tazcat 20 hrs ago #12
RE: "the real reason" LudwigPastorius 20 hrs ago #13
Yes, his real reason is to use this as a pretext senseandsensibility 20 hrs ago #14
Well then we can say that Trump's drone strike was successful Mblaze 20 hrs ago #16
Trump did re-post an article that said that. But it being his "real reason" is opinion, not fact. thesquanderer 19 hrs ago #23
bullshit. its all epstien now. he actoively ASKED russia to interfere. pansypoo53219 17 hrs ago #26
Setting her watching Nicole Traildogbob 16 hrs ago #28
I thought he was blaming China Retrograde 16 hrs ago #29
He never tells the truth. nt babylonsister 12 hrs ago #30
Off to google who Ron Flipkowski is...... Melon 12 hrs ago #31

senseandsensibility

(24,719 posts)
2. Let's hope that Dems seize on this remark
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:15 PM
22 hrs ago

So far I am not seeing them interviewed or their opinions represented on CNN or MSNOW.

lees1975

(6,975 posts)
21. What would they do with it? Turn it into fundraising appeals?
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:10 PM
20 hrs ago

So far, they've not done a damn thing with anything., Except send out fundraising emails using stuff like this.

Baitball Blogger

(52,058 posts)
3. Iran did not have a hacker footprint back then.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:20 PM
22 hrs ago

But, Russia and China has the kind of hackers that could do the trick.

So weird how he keeps blaming everything and everyone for that election. Everyone but himself.

He's turning into a twisted version of Lady MacBeth.

"Out, out damn spot!"

senseandsensibility

(24,719 posts)
4. Whether he actually believes that Iran interfered I don't know
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:24 PM
22 hrs ago

but he will use it as an excuse for clamping down on the midterm elections IMHO.

Baitball Blogger

(52,058 posts)
5. What I'm hoping for is that his claim is so far fetched that the media and Congress will seize this as
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:29 PM
22 hrs ago

a turning point and 25th him.

Bluetus

(2,613 posts)
27. If Iran did anything in 2016 and 2020, it would have been to help Trump
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:10 PM
17 hrs ago

Iran and Russia have been strong allies all along.

Baitball Blogger

(52,058 posts)
32. The things we don't know.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 01:28 AM
9 hrs ago

And the shame of it all is that we can’t appreciate all the karmic twists and turns that are occurring real time.

bdamomma

(69,465 posts)
17. Man?????
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:43 PM
20 hrs ago

how about a man/child. When he doesn't get his way he bullies people then they die.

He's really into REVENGE.

allegorical oracle

(6,380 posts)
19. Oh he lives his life to revenge and avenge everything and everybody who ever crossed
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:04 PM
20 hrs ago

him. Let's hope he doesn't use nukes. Believe he's outright itching to use the most powerful weapons on the planet. He's a sick human being who should be tossed out of office asap.

senseandsensibility

(24,719 posts)
22. My point is that he is an adult with awesome powers and responsibilities
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:13 PM
19 hrs ago

and it's time the press and his cult members started demanding he act like it. This infantilization of the most powerful person in the world and excusing every stupid thing he does is why we are this position.

bdamomma

(69,465 posts)
24. Well
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:47 PM
17 hrs ago

in regards to your DU name. DJT has none. I hate this. Because we can all see this is a distraction from the Epstein Files.

Lonestarblue

(13,400 posts)
8. Trump has accused several countries of interfering with the 2020 election.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 01:52 PM
21 hrs ago

The only one he hasn't accused is Russia, which is the one that actually interfered in 2016 and perhaps in 2020 to help Trump. They had Musk to interfere in 2024.

KS Toronado

(23,597 posts)
10. I'd love to see someone with the funds
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:02 PM
21 hrs ago

offer 10 million to anyone with knowledge how Elon Musk stole the 2024 election using his software
programs. Maybe all the computer hackers in this country would get busy finding what a lot of us
believe happened.

popsdenver

(2,080 posts)
11. Bingo
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:12 PM
20 hrs ago

Russia and China were the ones our intelligence community was reporting were doing the election hacking.......

But, the MAGAots are convinced they can lie, once again, and say it was IRAN.........and the Republican owned/operated mass media will deliver that flagrant lie, over and over again, with Fox News leading the way.......

LudwigPastorius

(14,504 posts)
13. RE: "the real reason"
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:30 PM
20 hrs ago

No, that's not his real reason.

He's just teeing up his move to interfere with the mid-terms and every election from here on out.

Trump, seeking executive power over elections is urged to declare emergency

senseandsensibility

(24,719 posts)
14. Yes, his real reason is to use this as a pretext
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:32 PM
20 hrs ago

to interfere with elections. NOTHING he does is above board or genuine.

Mblaze

(965 posts)
16. Well then we can say that Trump's drone strike was successful
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:43 PM
20 hrs ago

So this year's election will be free from Iranian interference. No need for federal control any more.

thesquanderer

(12,946 posts)
23. Trump did re-post an article that said that. But it being his "real reason" is opinion, not fact.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:36 PM
19 hrs ago

I'm not going to link to the article (I don't want to give them any clicks or google search support), but here's a screen shot of the source Trump was posting from ("re-tweeted," essentially). Trump passes along anything he likes. Claiming that his re-posting of this necessarily means it was his real reason for the war would be an unsubstantiated assertion, not a legit MSM news headline.

Traildogbob

(12,886 posts)
28. Setting her watching Nicole
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:13 PM
16 hrs ago

For hopefully some factual covering of up to date info. Well guess what the fuck just happened within our safe space. A commercial of trumps SOTU prank asking everyone to stand that loves MurKKKan’s more that aliens. And boy watch the real trained monkeys stand up a scream with joy. Especially Moses and John Donald Vance.
Why can’t Dems flood our space with video’s to expose this rapers.
Here is an Idea:
Show clips of ICE shooting citizens (Americans the GQP so raucously stood and cheered for) in the head, dragging disabled women violently out of the car, Pregnant women across the snow, Destroying their cars, beating down the home doors of those same much loved Americans without a warrant, and in between each clip of their love for Americans, show a clip of Moses and John Donald Vance and the GQP house jump the fuck Up with shit eating grins (trump shit course) and screaming like college cheerleaders winning a national championship.
There are Dem people being paid good money to message better and we have been screaming for it. I am a nobody and I think this commercial with all the accessible footage could be done by a 12 year old with a smart phone. Zero AI required.
Grow some uteruses people!!!! Balls are useless, weak and easily put down. With the flick of a finger.

Retrograde

(11,401 posts)
29. I thought he was blaming China
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:20 PM
16 hrs ago

for election interference back in 2020. I just can’t keep up anymore

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