Former President Donald Trump addressed assembled media Friday afternoon from his Southern California golf resort and took viewers on a roller coaster of topics that was impressive even for someone known for such an elliptical speaking pattern.
The media event appeared to be a clear effort to pivot from a raft of news that has criticized his Tuesday night debate performance in which he infamously spouted a debunked hoax that Haitian immigrants eat pets, to what he felt was unfair and biased debate moderators, in particular, David Muir.
Muir corrected Trump with crime statistics released by the FBI, which normally would be standard operating procedure. But in Trump’s conspiratorial and aggrieved mindset, it was evidence that the FBI was defrauding the American public with fake crime stats designed only to hurt his reelection bid.
But wait, there’s more!
Trump’s tortured logic took him from alleging FBI fraud to complaining about a “coup” led by Democratic Party forces that got Vice President Kamala Harris the nomination to the apparent hatred of Harris by President Joe Biden. I mean, Trump was literally all over the place in the nearly three-minute section of his address, excerpted above as a sample of the low energy and unenthusiastic rhetorical performance of the Republican candidate.
Trump was all over the place, and it’s probably best to just watch the clip above, or read a transcript of his jumbled and disconnected blather:
But David Muir said exactly. I quote President Trump, as you know, this is after I made the statement that crime is at record numbers. President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country. Now, anybody that says it’s coming down, when you look at all of the migrant crime and all of the other crime, and this doesn’t even include most of the migrant crime.
So it’s a 55, 65, 75 and 85. One case, one category is up 89%. And these numbers have just been released by. The government. I appreciate the person that released them. I think he came to my defense, actually. But the people understand it. In fact, he was wrong. The FBI totally fudged the numbers. And I really believe it’s actually a fraud, what the FBI did. It’s a fraud. And it was a fraud when the. When the administration, the, I call it the Kamala, because I don’t even know who our president is anymore. Where is this guy? They took it away.
This was an overthrow of the president of the United States. This was a coup. Yet 14. Think of it. He got 14 million votes. He got no vote. He was the first one that lost. And now I’m running against her. They went in. I was 19 points up in the poll. I saw their poll. They went up after the debate with Biden. I have debates with everybody. But the first debate, we had two debates. We didn’t have one.
First, I had Biden and he was 19 to 21 down and they went. That’s when they went and they said, you can’t win. You’re going to get out. And he said, no, I’m not. I’m not going to get out. Which was his right to say. They said, Well, if you don’t get out, we’re going to execute the 25th Amendment. And he said, like I said, I’m going to get out. And he hates her beyond any I think he hates her probably almost as much as he hates me. I think he still hates me a little bit more. But he hates her. He hates her. Here’s what she did. And you know, when they talk about democracy, well, that’s not democracy. At 14 million votes, she had none. And she was the first one out of the 22 people or so that ran as a Democrat. She never made it to Iowa first state. She never made it to Iowa. She was the first one out. And now she’s running. So you tell me how that works. They wanted to be politically correct, that’s all. But we’re not going to let her destroy our country.
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