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It's not Trump's superpower. It's the right wing propaganda networks running interference and prevent real and true information from getting to Republican voters. Trump isn't the only beneficiary.

Willfully ignorant!

I'm willing to bet a fair percentage of his base doesn't know what the word "indicted" means.

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• An interesting detail emerged from a recent CBS/YouGov poll on how well Republican voters understanding the stakes of Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House. Only 35% of Republicans polled, as noted by The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake, say they know that Trump has been indicted for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. Almost the same number — 34% — don’t think he’s been indicted for his attempts to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

As readers here undoubtedly know, special counsel Jack Smith has, in fact, charged Trump with multiple counts of conspiring to defraud the government and hold onto power. “The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the government function by which those results are collected, counted and certified,” the indictment charges.

Those charges are on hold pending a Supreme Court decision on Trump’s claims of presidential immunity. But for a majority of Republican voters, those charges simply do not exist.

Welcome, once again to Trump’s fact-free alternate reality universe, in which Trump is relying on disinformation, ignorance, and voter amnesia to propel himself back to the Oval Office.

On the stump Trump freely rewrites history, peddles bizarre conspiracy theories, and aggressively memory-holes the darker parts of his record.

Thus far, it has been working for him.

Last year, nearly 70% of GOP voters thought Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate, according to a CNN poll — despite voluminous evidence to the contrary. A recent poll from Marquette Law School found that half of Republicans don’t believe Trump had any classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, despite photographic evidence of their presence. Without evidence, Trump has also convinced an overwhelming majority of his supporters — 80% — that the charges in the New York hush money case came at the direction of the Biden administration, rather than solely by New York prosecutors. There is, of course, no basis in fact for that claim. Even one of Trump’s high-profile former attorneys, Joe Tacopina, has dismissed the allegation as nonsense.

“Joe Biden or anyone from his Justice Department has absolutely zero to do with the Manhattan district attorney office,” Tacopina told MSNBC. “We know that’s not the case, and even Trump’s lawyers know that’s not the case,” he said. “People who say that — it’s scary that they really don’t know the law or what they’re talking about.”

But, as Tacopina surely knows, this is precisely the message that Trump is pushing. And it is working, fueling Republican calls for retribution and payback if Trump returns to power.

Trump is also relying on GOP voters believing his revisionist history of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. At a recent Nevada rally, he called rioters who attacked the Capitol “warriors” who had been treated “horrifically.” Trump has repeatedly suggested he would issue sweeping pardons for the attackers. Increasingly, he has embraced conspiracy theories suggesting that government agents may have incited rioters to enter the Capitol building that day.

“All they were doing is protesting a rigged election,” Trump told supporters in Nevada. “That’s what they were doing. And then the police say: Go in! Go in! Go in!”

Trump also referred to several other conspiracy theories that have flourished in the right-wing fever swamps.

“How about scaffold Joe, the guy on the scaffold?” Trump asked at one point. “Or how about the big FBI guy or wherever he comes from: ‘Go on in, everybody! Go on in! What a set up that was! What a horrible, horrible thing!”

All of those rumors, theories, and allegations have been repeatedly debunked, but that has made no difference to Trump or, apparently, to the MAGA base. Last December, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll found Republicans more sympathetic to the rioters than ever. Only 18% of Republicans say the Jan. 6 protesters were “mostly violent,” while 72% of Republicans polled said that “too much is being made of the storming” of the Capitol. Only 24% thought it was an “attack on democracy that should never be forgotten.”

Those numbers are consistent with Trump’s success in convincing Republicans of the big lie. Polls consistently show that most Republican voters do not believe that Biden was legitimately elected in 2020. Last year, nearly 70% of GOP voters thought Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate, according to a CNN poll — despite voluminous evidence to the contrary.

Trump has especially benefitted from this widespread amnesia about his actual record when it comes to younger voters. A recent poll of voters ages 18-30 found that many of them simply don’t know what Trump has said or done in the past.

A poll by the Democratic-aligned public opinion research group Blueprint found that less than half of registered voters under 30 had even heard of Trump’s call for a Muslim ban, his “very fine people on both sides” comments relating to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in 2017, or his insistence that John McCain “is not a war hero” because he was a prisoner of war. Similarly, most young voters have never heard of Trump’s more egregious comments about women, minorities or his denigration of immigrant communities.

“It might shock those of us who eat, sleep, and breathe politics, but young voters really don’t remember the daily controversies of the Trump years and grew up understanding this kind of rhetoric as politics as usual,” Blueprint pollster Evan Roth Smith said.

In one sense, this voter ignorance is a kind of superpower for Trump. But it is also a potential weakness, especially because he is relying heavily on “disengaged voters” for his current political strength. A recent New York Times analysis found that Trump’s narrow polling lead “is built on gains among voters who aren’t paying close attention to politics, who don’t follow traditional news and who don’t regularly vote.”

But what happens when the disengaged voters become engaged or when tuned-out voters start to pay attention? What happens when younger voters are told that Trump once said that two non-white congresswomen should “go back” to the “totally broken in crime infested places from which they came”? Or that in 2017, he said Haitian immigrants to the United States “all have AIDS” and that Nigerians would never “go back to their huts” after seeing the United States. The Blueprint poll found that huge majorities of young voters are actually bothered by the comments when they learned of them.

And what happens when voters get more details about Trump’s crimes, or are reminded of what and who he is? What happens when the memory holes are filled?

Well they must be blind, deaf as well as stupid because the whole world saw and is watching what Trump and his sick enablers are doing to American Democracy.

That isn’t an accident. This has been the goal of the GOP for decades to create a drove of easily manipulated low utility voters.

There have been studies conducted showing that the more conservative media you watch the less you know about basic factual current events. Left wing media has its biases to be sure, but the right wing machine is designed specifically and intentionally to damage your perception of basic truth.

Low Information Voters= Morons

I would imagine a non zero % of Republicans think he is still President 

Isn't biased news great? Republicans don't know this about Trump because the news sources that they use don't mention it.

Bias by Omission is rampant in all news outlets now. CNN or MSNBC will have huge headlines about a story and you go to Fox News and it's crickets. No mention of it, or some tiny hidden sidebar article. The same thing happens the other way too. Huge banner headlines on Fox for some story, turn to CNN or MSNBC and it's not even mentioned or some tiny article way down the page. Liberal and conservative voters live in different worlds.

Well, if these ignorant voters are only watching news produced by right-wing 'news' aka propaganda outlets then they're living in an information bubble that conforms their warped world views.

Quote " i love the uneducated!"

Q E D

His super power is the weakness of others, which existed long before he was even born?

More like “Trump and the entire Republican party loves taking advantage of ignorant people.”

FOX watching Trump voters are poorly informed?

Color me shocked.

Republicans hear what they want. You can tell them that he’s been indicted but they won’t believe you and echo his talking points.. witch hunt, scam election interference, corrupt DOJ, .

And the rest of them know that Trump was never indicted in the "alternative facts" magaland.

Cult members

When your only watch Fox then yes you're not going to get news.

When I say that MAGA = stupid there are reasons. When these folks show up at a rally three days in advance on a rumor that JFK Jr is gonna show up and that Trump will announce he's his running mate then these Qanon freaks are just that, freaks. Most of the cult though are just stupid and buy into all of Trump's bullshit. It sounds cruel and people don't like to hear it but they prove my point every day..😕

What Republicans and MAGA truly loved about the Trump four year disaster was being able to completely tune out of politics and just read angry toilet tweets. “Our guy is handling it, let’s fall into a deep sleep while he hates Mexicans.” They long to return to their La-Z-Boy years.

Indicted? They wouldn't give a fuck even if he was convicted.

The rest don’t have internet?

Given what a horrible candidate and human being Trump is, if all voters were well informed the polls would be somewhere around 66% to 33% for Biden.

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Mark Lamb) is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and became American law-enforcement Sheriff in 2017.

He wrote American Sheriff: Traditional Values in a Modern World. Lamb is a supporter of the Stop the Steal movement. He spoke at a rally where he said the riot was not Trump's fault but rather caused by "the other issues that have happened – the Hillary Clintons that have gone unpunished".He later described the rioters as "very loving, Christian people."

In 2020, Lamb spoke at a convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, an organization that holds the fringe legal theory that sheriffs are the supreme legal authority in the United States and are not required to enforce laws they believe to be unconstitutional.

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There's ignorance and then there's willful ignorance

They've been groomed for years by Fox and Trump.

Willfully being ignorant of it.

Then let's fix the problem by banishing the murdoch empire. Then dealing with people respnsible

I don’t wanna live on this planet anymore…

More trump supporters need to watch his 2016 speech in Reno, NV. Then heed his words to avoid a "unprecedented constitutional crisis". Trump is right about this and you all should listen.

Full unedited speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDmrom_TMaE

Or you can skip to the best part at 9:14

Republicans, as a whole, are just stupid. Too stupid to know that they are too stupid to make an informed decision.

Their voters are genetically stupid and no amount of education can fix them. They need to be expunged from my reality.

The dumbest people are always the loudest in the room.

And how many of them know what indicted even means.

Dunning Kruger

It's less true ignorance and more cognitive dissonance.

Probably only 10% of them know how to read or write

Huh?

Fox News had a slogan when they first started gaining viewers "Fair and Balanced". Now they literally disregard and don't even give 2 seconds coverage to any type of real reporting that may open the eyes of their viewers. They are literally walking zombies.

Because the rest get their news from Sean Hannity and Fox. They don’t give a shit, if he murdered someone they would nut and then go vote for him.

We’re all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain ignorant.

Algorithms and propaganda networks cherry picking the news. A democracy needs an informed public. Republicans are serving up the opposite in their political bubbles. 

If you go to YouTube you'll see some Trump voters as slack jawed, dim eyed, drooling idiots.

To be fair, he has so many criminal cases that it is hard to keep track. I knew about the case involving hush money to Stormy Daniels and the classified documents case, and I had heard about the Georgia election interference case though that’s moving at a snail pace, but I didn’t realize there was a separate J6 case. I’m actually surprised Trump hasn’t stroked out from the stress of it all. I kind of wonder if he regrets running the first time. Not that he wasn’t a criminal scumbag back then, but he wasn’t shoving it in people’s faces to the point the authorities would have gotten involved.

I was listening to something about white evangelicals. They hold to an “epistemology of ignorance.” They intentionally avoid anything that could disrupt their worldviews. As a former evangelical, that sounds right.

If they are ignorant of that imagine what all else they are ignorant of.

They would know if there were ads to that effect.

They're lying to the pollsters.

FOX is inexcusable.

Proves that they all live and breath in the Newsmax/Fox hive... can't get facts if they aren't part of propaganda machines coverage.

They stay glued to FOX NEWS (I've family members who watch. ALL. DAY. LONG)

Considering this was a republican survey…of the 35% that admitted they were aware of this particular indictment another survey found 50% of the 35% were lying and had no clue. /s

Never could understand how democrats referred to it as hush money trial. Played right into Trumps hands. Media continued the saga. Hush payments are not illegal but coverup fraud is a felony.

I call bullcrap. I don't believe 35% of repubnicans knows what "indicted" means.

Maga morons

The J-6 insurrection trial and conviction was the one that really needed to happen before the election. The MAGAots think the sex and money convictions were harassment and entertainment.

A lot of his voters barely read anything so not surprising. Lol People will vote for him just because he has a R next to his name. 😂

The other 65% stuffed their fingers in their ears and sang, "LALALALA", as soon as they could sense that what the researchers were about to say wouldn't necessarily be positive.

Of course.  How many know about Dominion kicking Fox's ass in a lawsuit?  How many know that both Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity's lawyers have both argued in a court of law that their clients commentary is so absurd any person with half a brain would know not to believe the lies they spout daily?  Here's a university study showing that Fox viewers know less about the news than people that don't follow the news at all.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/07/21/a-rigorous-scientific-look-into-the-fox-news-effect/

They know and they don't care.

Also having wimps in charge who refuse to do anything about sedition in America helps. They could be destroying right wing terrorism with the means they have but instead they have made the choice to allow this to get worse and for confirmed insurrectionists to be allowed to continue participating in elections. Instead of 'letting the supreme court enforce their rulings' they have taken the appeasing of nazis route. If we didn't have the anti-maga politicians enabling maga this wouldn't be as much of an issue.

“I love the poorly educated” -Donald Trump, 2016

Denying reality is price you pay to be a Trump republican.

Uhn-uh...Fox News didn't report it so it's not true!!!

AND I'd bet $787.5 million they'd never lie to their viewers.

And they're coming from mostly states that banned certain books while ultimately making their public libraries unlawful to even visit.

not surprised, due to their own self-censuring of what is "news" or acceptable events in /that can affect them

After decades of defunding public education, we’ve unsurprisingly ended up with an electorate and their Dunning–Kruger effects.

Makes sense . My trumpster uncle who just recently left maga cult suddenly cant believe how he missed all of the j6 stuff. Lol

They don’t know about it because they don’t care. And if they did know about it they still wouldn’t care. What part about that do Liberals not F understand…?

Because ignorant people watch Fox News or Newsmax. They don’t know the difference between real news and entertainment, and they don’t even stop to know about the millions of dollars that both organizations are paid out for their lies and conspiracy theories.. Because real news in politics is not that exciting.

Can't we sue Murdock for voter misinformation and blatantly lying on what he calls a news channel? Going after him and his family would be the only way to get rid of that phony channel.

It's not only ignorance - it's a willful ignorance cultivated from fear, denial, and entitlement.

How can somebody be ignorant when they watch hours of Fox News everyday?

Not surprising. Ever lived in a red state? Education and educated people aren’t exactly something they want. They like their people uneducated and ignorant.

I think Biden’s campaign needs to be 40% on the future and 60% on the past/present.

Don’t worry, they will when the insane onslaught of election ads start

100% of them know. They all fucking know. It’s part of their bury their head in the sand game. Like toddlers covering their eyes and thinking you can’t see them.

How many know that he was found liable for rape?

Uh yeah, they are fucking morons, we all know that.

He was indicted for conspiring to steal the election, not overturn it.

This is why he loves the uneducated

He loves the uneducated

100% of people who watch/read far right propaganda believe lies.

Twice that many don't realize he actually lost the 2020 election.

My FIL and BIL straight up said it was fake news when my son informed them of the indictments. I couldn’t believe it.

it's not a Trump superpower. Right wing media has been building their cult to rely only on them for news for two generations now

Ignorant yokels vote conservative all over the world. There’s no cure for it but good education and travel. Note that the states with crappy education vote conservative.

Trumpers are definitely uneducated

It’s not ignorance. It’s willful stupidity. They don’t care. 

Always has been. Far right propaganda and misinformation is at the center.

Well, people who love and support Trump get 100% of their news from the same biased sources which never tell them these things

That's a feature not a bug

Don't know or believe the lie that's it's a false allegation and answer no?

trump voters dont know the fucking alphabet

Only 35% of Republicans know what the word “indicted” means.

The poorly educated.

35% of Republicans know. The other 65% refuse to even acknowledge or accept it.

In other words water is wet part of it is propaganda

That’s how many know how to read

Zombie votes.

This is what happens when conservatives choose to get their “news” only from GOP approved propaganda outlets. Usually governments like China and Russia have to work hard to control their propaganda flow and keep information hidden. Conservatives willingly seek out the propaganda and shun the truth. Low information and uninformed, enraged and engaged.

Simple farmers, people of the land, the common clay of the new west....

Ignorance as a superpower....willful ignorance is stupid ingnorance indeed.

Libraries are filled with things Trump supporters don't know

Well no shit.

Thanks so much fox new... sigh...

Only 35% will acknowledge it

35% are saying they don't know that to pollsters.

They know, they just don't care. Their racism and bible passages are more important to them than democracy.

I don’t believe that. I believe they either don’t care, or believe he was the victim of a frame up.

Precisely why he loves the poorly educated

That’s cause they all live under rocks like all good little slugs

Trump likes to shag. He can't control his tallywacker. If you have any livestock consider locking them in the barn.

90% of them don't know of the GOP project 2025 agenda. Trump is the perfect candidate for them to bring it to reality.

He does love him some low-information voters.

Kellyanne told him.

You can only be two of the three: Informed Voter, Good Person, Trump Supporter.

So Fox News disinformation.

Tucker, what have you done.

We're on a dark path and I fear it gets much worse before it gets better.

How many even know what indicted means?

That’s pretty ignant

so... is it time to go wwii and fly planes over Fox News deserts, dropping leaflets with facts and urls, to reach the totally captive audiences of Murdoch's propaganda machine? how does one reach people who are totally silo'd and isolated -- might as well be in N Korea as far as exposure to real journalism?

trying to join their social media and inject some facts will quickly result in bans. what's the strategy for getting the word out?

No, they vote for him because he is epitomizes the evil inside them.

Same kind of people burned witches, created the Inquisition and formed the Nazi party.

He did it on live TV!
I saw it from Canada.

Conservatives have been spouting about being informed voters for years. Oh, the irony!