Worse. As many have pointed out: "If he gets arrested, he's your next president."

Wouldn't be the first leader whose arrest led to raging popularity and revolt.

Prominent Republicans (like John Bolton) have claimed that Democrats are intentionally targetting Trump to increase his popularity with his base so that he'll definately become the nominee and then be easy to beat.

Whether you believe that or not, its wild that we're in such a position that claims like that could be made.

Democrats explicitly had commercials pumping up Trump aligned Republicans in Senate primary races in swing states because Democrats thought they would be easier to defeat (they were right).

It's not wild. It's precisely what they did in 2015, as revealed by WikiLeaks: https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaig...

Wow...who needs friends with enemies like that. But jeez...you'd think they would have at least learned their lesson. I was pretty convinced 2 years ago (around the time of the injecting hydrochloric acid comments) that Trump would be almost universally be considered a national embarrassment by now. If there weren't powerful people running around deliberately trying to inflate support for him hoping it will somehow work out in their own interests I'm still pretty sure he would be.

He never advocated injecting hydrochloric acid.

Well no, he technically didn't advocate injecting bleach either but I gather he did seriously suggest a task force should investigate it as a possible covid treatment. HCl is used as a bleaching agent even if it's not commonly an ingredient in commercial bleaches - I conflated the two in my head.

It didn't happen that way either: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/...

He initially referred to UV light as a disinfection agent, and then to the "bleach". He was rambling about use inside the body and did mention "injection", but he wasn't specifically advocating something, and when asked to clarify a few moments later he explicitly said he didn't think it should be injected.

Was it loose talk and pretty dumb? Absolutely. Did the media exaggerate and lie about it for years as a political talking point? Of course! Such is life in modern America.

Wild in politics... nothing is wild to me with politics ..win at all cost and angles. Make things up ..smear your opponent..etc... been playing that game forever.

Nothing for me to pay attention to just vote based on who aligns with my issues and doesn't come off like slimeball or an idiot!

If that's true then that's morally acceptable to stop republicans who have promoted lies about election fraud in an attempt to steal power in a democracy

Didn't Biden only best Trump by a small percentage? If correct, is that really 'easy to beat'?

"I'm not a fan of Trump but I think he would be the best president ever and is god like in my eyes."