If he cheats, he still leaves the presidency. If he screams cheating, he can weasel a new election and provisory government. He doesn’t care about the party either.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put it past him to cheat since he was caught cheating before, but I do believe the reason the Trump admin asked to keep any vulnerabilities under wraps is not so they could exploit them, but so they could delay the announcement of finding them after the results came in and invalidate the results if they ended up losing.
His only real move in elections is to scream cheating. This is exactly what he wants to just declare the elections fake.
He has two moves: to scream cheating, and to cheat himself.
“Every accusation is an admission”
If he cheats, he still leaves the presidency. If he screams cheating, he can weasel a new election and provisory government. He doesn’t care about the party either.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put it past him to cheat since he was caught cheating before, but I do believe the reason the Trump admin asked to keep any vulnerabilities under wraps is not so they could exploit them, but so they could delay the announcement of finding them after the results came in and invalidate the results if they ended up losing.