Trump Team Accuses Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer of Encouraging Assassination
of President Weeks Before Election
Newsweek,
by
Emily Czachor
Original Article
Posted By: Ketchuplover,
10/20/2020 12:16:50 AM
Donald Trump's reelection campaign accused Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer of "encouraging assassination attempts" targeting the president on Sunday afternoon, amid escalating conflict between the two political leaders.
Trump's campaign, which uses the handle "Trump War Room" on Twitter, based its allegations against Whitmer on a token with the numbers "8645" clearly visible. The token appeared behind her during an interview with NBC News host Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday morning.
"Governor Gretchen Whitmer displayed an '86 45' sign during her TV appearance. 86 can be shorthand for killing someone," the Trump campaign tweeted, alongside a screenshot
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Tusker 10/20/2020 12:59:05 AM (No. 578032)
She needs a visit from the Secret Service and a cell at Gitmo.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 10/20/2020 12:59:22 AM (No. 578033)
ugh
I do think POTUS needs to calm down. Stop, please stop. Witless is a dolt. Fauci is one thing one day, another, another. Speak to the point on issues important to the people because the media won't --another source of bitter disappointment for POTUS.
Here's what i think is happening, the coup plotters are not being charged, arrested and prosecuted after four years of the web of deceit. Now some grotesqueries are emerging about Biden & family which must be exposed, and the media are tightlipped (except for the unzipped one) are fully in with the plotters. And it seems the Justice Department and FBI are somewhere playing tiddlywinks.
No matter what, he needs to stop the personal attacks. makes him look small. Too much contrast with Tin Man Biden who slurps milk shakes and shuffles on down the road.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Justice 10/20/2020 1:33:53 AM (No. 578054)
86 just means "kick out" it doesn't imply "assassinate".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 10/20/2020 1:34:31 AM (No. 578056)
The '8645' definitely does not look like a 'sign' in the background. Rather, it appears to be some sort of overlay on the screen, just like the 'Meet the Press' logo further to the right.
So, more likely that someone at NBC was having some 'fun'??
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/20/2020 1:36:26 AM (No. 578058)
President Trump is usually right about these things; it's totally believable. She blamed him for her alleged kidnapping when it was the feds who discovered and thwarted it. She probably set up the kidnapping herself to blame the alt right, and they, the feds, actually thwarted her. Who wants to kidnap her? Why would antifa 'nem want to kidnap her? He says lock her up; her comeback is 86 him. I believe the President. This man stands in the gap for US, and he takes it from the left and the right daily. Cut him some freakin' slack for fighting back! Thank God, he is the fighter that he is.
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What is wrong with this woman ? Remember when she shut everybody down and sent her husband to get their boat out of storage? Now this. What does it take to recall these egotistical self serving governors?
All they all on the take ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nephilim 10/20/2020 4:48:11 AM (No. 578121)
Sorry #4. In the 1970's '86' also became a slang word to kill, to murder, to execute judicially someone. Whitmer isn't going to have a sign that says 'assassinate' because it's too direct. But use a masked code that has a specific meaning in the underworld is bad. It's like scratching your nose with your middle finger. You are scratching your nose which is innocuous but you are also sending a derogatory signal too.
Green, Jonathon (2005). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-304-36636-1. 2 [1970s+] (US) to kill, to murder; to execute judicially.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 10/20/2020 5:15:20 AM (No. 578124)
She knows she is one and done. The democrats feel that they have the fraud in the bag over this election that they will do or say anything to get a seat on the Biden train.
I pray that I am wrong.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 10/20/2020 5:46:43 AM (No. 578133)
#3,,,,Agree he needs to tone it down. Don't want him looking like a rambling Biden !!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
gone2pot 10/20/2020 6:08:00 AM (No. 578142)
Well, the FBI worked with her to entrap five morons into committing crimes to assassinate her, then helped her blame it on Trump. Plus, it turns out, all five morons are Trump haters but of course, that was never reported in the Marxist media. I would like to have Sean Hannity produce all those good, decent, honest FBI agents he knows so well. There might be enough to fill all five circles at a Joe Biden rally. She actually commits a crime. Trump gets blamed for her crime and the FBI helps her do it. Same as it ever was.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TCloud 10/20/2020 7:14:48 AM (No. 578173)
She is playing with FIRE!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TCloud 10/20/2020 7:19:31 AM (No. 578178)
Dittos #11. And...they want TRUMP to go EZ on them!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 10/20/2020 7:48:24 AM (No. 578206)
"She was never just a pretty face." Correction: She was never a pretty face.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/20/2020 7:51:26 AM (No. 578212)
I grew up hearing the term as the "deep 86" as a reference to throwing someone overboard as a means of execution. I immediately interpreted that to be a death threat. After a little time on the interwebber I do see that the term is used for discarding other than by executing.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Yuban 10/20/2020 7:54:26 AM (No. 578217)
Whatever, it is working. You good folk are talking about a "sign" and not about what really matters.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 10/20/2020 7:58:19 AM (No. 578223)
#3 & #10 The latest trend perking out there is "[Trump] needs to stop the personal attacks."
I say stop telling Trump what to do and trust his instincts.
I have no problem with the personal attacks. In case you didn't notice, this is war the Left & MSM are waging against Trump AND America.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 10/20/2020 7:58:48 AM (No. 578225)
#3 is right, Trump needs to stay focused on the issues that matter most to voters, and in that regard he has a very powerful message-- building his incredible economy back up, lower taxes, energy independence, secure borders. His enemies will keep on tossing up all sorts of distractions. Stay on message, Mr. President.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 10/20/2020 8:11:14 AM (No. 578240)
#18 Trump is very capable of doing both.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Peach1 10/20/2020 8:16:22 AM (No. 578245)
The “86” in this story means the same as it does with the abortion pill “RU486” (Are you for 86’ing?).
The Dems are DANGEROUS!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/20/2020 8:17:02 AM (No. 578247)
Unless I’m watching some other guy, Trump IS focusing on the issues. Every day. Perhaps, some posters need to “calm down”?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
nhveritas 10/20/2020 8:17:51 AM (No. 578250)
The despicable democrats really seem to want a civil war. I hope it doesn't come to this, but will be prepared for whatever they bring,
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
starboard 10/20/2020 8:44:20 AM (No. 578279)
I always thought 86 meant get rid of, dump or throw overboard.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
TLCary 10/20/2020 8:44:46 AM (No. 578280)
TOP DEFINITION: 86'd
To get rid of, originally for killing someone. The phrase "80 miles out and 6 feet under" was reserved for someone who had to dig their own grave 80 miles from civilization and then get shot execution-style.
... I guess if they can redefine "is" and "marriage" why not "86'd"? Orwell warned us.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 10/20/2020 8:51:15 AM (No. 578289)
This is again hugely brilliant. If you can’t unite state by state against a candidate the media is propping up, take on these Soros sponsored swing state stooges who are woefully unpopular and who have played the virus to manipulate this election. Make it us vs her, us vs Evers In Wisconsin, etc. Make it a referendum on the democratic governors.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/20/2020 9:07:46 AM (No. 578305)
(I read the author's profile on Muck Rack.) Some wet-behind-the-ears columnist seems to place President Trump and this ''lady''' governor as equals. She might be a ''political leader'' but Donald Trump is not. FYI, Trump is the leader of the last free country in the world. Back in the 1960's ''86'' was a verb, meaning ''to ax, or do away with'' and could mean kill. Nothing much the matter with Emily Czachor of Newsweek that 20 more years on the planet couldn't fix.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 10/20/2020 9:19:43 AM (No. 578327)
#23 The 86/45 symbol means dump Trump, who's the 45th president.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 10/20/2020 9:58:12 AM (No. 578376)
This lady needs to be drug tested for major psychotropics. She is cra cra.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
donnaclaire 10/20/2020 9:58:52 AM (No. 578377)
Pretty face? Must have been looking at photos I haven't seen.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
thehutchcom 10/20/2020 10:01:50 AM (No. 578382)
"86" doesn't mean killing, it is code for throwing someone out of a bar. You tell a bouncer to 86 a drunk. That is where Maxwell Smart got his codename.
I support Trump but this is reaching.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 10/20/2020 10:08:23 AM (No. 578393)
Apparently some people on here miss the days of “gentile, gentlemanly, high road” Bushes.
Kiss my grits, you people. Trump is a fighter. Fighters punch back. I want a fighter. The Bushies can kiss my backside and like it.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 10/20/2020 10:32:57 AM (No. 578417)
I like the fact that our president is spanking Whitmer and would not doubt that he knows more about the investigation than does the media. However ,he needs to get the facts straight on her husband's faux pas this spring. The motorized boat ban his idiot wife had decreed in early spring had actually been lifted by the time they were up north for a weekend at their cabin in Elk Rapids,MI. to host their daughter's graduation party. The Mister was tasked with getting their powerboat from the local marina. When he was advised that there were dozens of boats that had to be moved before they could get at their boat, Mr Whitmer "joked" that perhaps they didn't know who he was. It didn't fly with marina operators ( as most folks in these parts despise his racist wife)but they told the story to the local media -which required her attempt to get the story out of the media. President Trump tells the story as if no other boats were allowed on the lake except hers- which was not the case. I'll bet the Mr got a vicious spanking from Frau Blucher..
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/20/2020 10:34:29 AM (No. 578419)
What a useless woman...time to check her financials and see how much money soros sent to her....the buses of illegal voters put her in office and it's time to find out how such an unpopular woman became governor... I pray for our president every day... he is God's choice and America's choice....now that WE know how the FBI works... can WE wonder how a mentally unstable man tried to kill President Reagan... I suspect with full knowledge of the FBI...
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/20/2020 10:37:12 AM (No. 578424)
Works both ways, Gretch, and sadly, the country does seem to be moving in that direction.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
rochow 10/20/2020 12:32:36 PM (No. 578574)
Spot on #1!! She is not a nice Jewish girl. I say it again, it would not surprise me when it comes out that she was the originator of her 'kidnapping plot'! Strange that all of the so called kidnappers were Antifa members . Did she think that the FBI would storm into the WH and 'arrest' the President???? Her vitriol, her self absorption, being drunk with her abuse of power...I hope they find somethin on her that she goes behind bars.
If these 'numbers' or tokens are for real, she should be taken in by the SS!! If any of us threatened the President we would be interviewed or arrested!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Kafka2 10/20/2020 12:42:36 PM (No. 578587)
Re: reply 32 "The motorized boat ban his idiot wife had decreed in early spring had actually been lifted by the time they were up north for a weekend at their cabin in Elk Rapids,MI."
How many days after the boat ban was lifted until the governor and her husband wanted to use their boat? It seems like more arrogance on the part of "Her Royal Highness Whitmer" to me.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/20/2020 1:28:09 PM (No. 578640)
When you look back at the last four years, anytime the Democrats or liberal media accuse President Trump of attacking or criticizing some Democrat politician, some never-Trump establishment Republican, or the liberal media, when you look at the whole story, it turns out that Trump was just counterpunching some attack against him that originated with the Democrats, never-Trump internationalist investor class Republicans, or the liberal media.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
TLCary 10/20/2020 2:03:37 PM (No. 578667)
The definition of a slang word is 'what most people take it to mean'. The most recent poll on the word was done in 2007. Most people took 86'd to mean kill.
That said, Merriam-Webster now provides a second definiton to the clearly non-slang word "literally' that is the opposite of 'literally'. The only communication left is flashing gang signs; and humanity ends where it began.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
msjena 10/20/2020 2:38:42 PM (No. 578690)
There are so many conservatives in Michigan--way more than in Illinois. How can they elect someone like this? I only hope their experience with a left-wing authoritarian governors drives conservatives to the polls to vote for Trump and John James.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Bohallx 10/20/2020 5:53:13 PM (No. 578863)
When I first heard of the arrests of the good ol'boys in Michigan again, I thought first of the last "Michigan Militia" outrage ~ the Hutaree, ended with that case being kicked out of court by the federal judge.
And, lo and behold, it's the same old same old in this case ~ the Detroit field office does a favor for either the anti-gun people, or some Democrat politician, or somebody with a powerful interest in Michigan.
Just in case you think FBI corruption is just a Headquarters and SDNY thing ~ it goes WAAAAY beyond those guys well into the field offices.
FBI Director Wray had Huttaree and maybe this latest deal in mind when he said that right wing Republican terrorists are a huge problem in America.....
Now if he'd told us those folks were named Comey, Strzok, etc. ~ but he didn't.
In any case, with any new militia case in Michigan, always be suspicious.
Here the FBI was supposedly working to protect a Governor who'd become an embarrassment to the Democrat party!
Then, we heard they were also protecting "Coonman" Northam, another Democrat Governor who'd become an embarrassment to the Democrat party!
The Republicans were happy to leave Coonman and Whitmer alone ~ they really are an embarrassment to Democrats, and more specifically the typically Leftwing Democrats who don't care if you're unemployed, injured, lying in blood or hung over ~ they want to tell you to NOT GO TO WORK.... and get away with it.
Last person in America who'd want to assassinate either of them would be Donald Trump. They help him WIN ~ but it's not beyond belief that Whitmer, and maybe even Northam, find some advantage in assassinating him! After all, both Whitmer and Northam are NUTS! And Northam has a declared interest in killing babies after birth
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
M Stuart 10/20/2020 6:33:32 PM (No. 578911)
Whitmer was never a pretty face. She has a long face like a mule.
There are not brains in there either, just meanness.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/20/2020 7:09:47 PM (No. 578942)
in the not to distant past, anyone even hinting at bringing some injury to the President, was immediately located and questioned by the Secret Service, and to have the Governor of a state behind the plot is truly unimaginable. the one thing the big man has done so far is to bring the rats out of hiding.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
doublesharp 10/20/2020 8:05:28 PM (No. 578988)
86 means to make disappear, dispose of, throw out. I take it as "get rid of 45"
Makes me want to go all Bocephus on her "I'd like to spit some Beechnut into that broad's eye"
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Comments:
This was not an accident. If you recall, President Trump, in his "townhall" meeting, referenced her husband as being apparently exempt from her Draconian declarations. This is her not so subtle attempt at sending a message and a threat.