Reposted from Dailykos
This is of course an obvious statement. It’s very clear every time that Trump speaks, tweets, xweets or “truths.” He’s completely unhinged. He does not have a reasonable grip on reality.
Here are examples just from the last few days.
Trump demands that all J6 Cases be halted.
Donald Trump early Thursday morning misrepresented comments by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi to demand that charges against Jan. 6 rioters be "immediately dropped."
House Republicans released previously unseen video from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that highlights Pelosi saying she accepts "full responsibility" for security failures that allowed the former president's supporters to storm into the building to halt the certification of Joe Biden's election win, and Trump seized on those comments to absolve himself and his jailed followers.
"Based on Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s taped admission to her daughter, ALL J6 CASES SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY DROPPED," Trump posted on his Truth Social website Thursday at 1:38 a.m.
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“Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed again and again that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination on Jan. 6,” said spokesman Ian Krager. “The speaker of the House is not in charge of the security of the Capitol Complex — on Jan. 6 or any other day of the week.”
Pelosi didn’t call for a rally to happen on January 6. Pelosi didn’t tell those rally goers to “Go to the Capitol.” Pelosi didn’t get the permit for the rally that specifically didn’t include a permit for a march to the Capitol. Pelosi didn’t tell people to “Fight”, “Fight”,”Fight”,and ”Fight like hell or you’re not gonna have a country any more.” Pelosi didn’t have any discussions with Mayor Bowser of Act Defense Secretary Miller about the National Guard — Trump did. Miller has testified that Trump DID NOT order him to have 10,000 Troops there, although he did mention the idea in passing. Bowser and Miller arranged to use the National Guard for traffic control which freed them up to have about 8,000 police available.
Those police were at the rally near the ellipse, not at the Capitol.
In the video Pelosi is lamenting that they didn’t have enough police at the Capitol, which they didn’t. And whose fault exactly was that?
But the bigger point is his crazed idea that ALL January 6 prosecutions should be HALTED because of an idle comment by Nancy Pelosi stating they failed to have enough security at the Capitol. That’s just nuts. It’s bonkers.
This is especially ironic since the first guy to physically enter the Capitol building on Jan 6 was just sentenced to 53 months in jail.
Michael Sparks, a civil war-promoting Capitol rioter who was the first person to illegally enter the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, was hit with a 53-month prison sentence on Tuesday after he told the court that he was "remorseful" that his attempt to block the certification of the 2020 election failed.
As reported by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, Sparks told Judge Timothy Kelly during his sentencing hearing that he was "remorseful" about storming the Capitol but only because "it didn't help anything," and that he's also "remorseful our country is in the state that it's in."
He emphasized that he is "not remorseful that I went up there [to the Capitol] to make my voice heard."
Kelly responded by informing Sparks that he believes January 6th was "a national disgrace" and told him that there "was nothing patriotic" about breaking into the Capitol.
"It snapped our previously unbroken record of the peaceful transition of power," Kelly emphasized. "I don't think you appreciate the full gravity of what happened that day."
“Make his voice heard?” He fucking climbed through a broken window to enter the Capitol by force. He’s a terrorist.
And he did it because of a Lie.
Let’s recall that Trump’s lawsuit against CNN for calling the “stolen election” the “Big Lie” was thrown the fuck out of court.
A federal judge in Florida on Friday dismissed a $475 million defamation lawsuit former President Donald Trump brought against CNN that accused the network of defaming him by using the phrase “the big lie” and allegedly comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
District Judge Raag Singhal, a 2019 appointee of Trump’s, said that use of the phrase or similar statements are opinion that don’t meet the standard for defamation.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people. No reasonable viewer could (or should) plausibly make that reference,” Singhal wrote.
“Being “Hitler-like” is not a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim,” Singhal added.
The lawsuit is one of many Trump has filed against media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post, objecting to coverage during his presidency and in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.
Trump had accused CNN of a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander” and of creating a “false and incendiary association” between him and Hitler.
It’s not slander. It’s not defamation. It’s the truth. He’s “Hitler-like.”
I say this all the time, but no recount, no audit, no court, no judge, no jury, no detailed analysis by anyone credible — has found that the 2020 election was “stolen.” They haven’t found millions “illegal immigrant voters.” They haven’t found millions of “fraudulent ballots.”
Rudy Giuliani lost his defamation suit against Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — who he accused of election fraud — to the tune of $148 Million.
Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro have been convicted for their involvement in Trump election plot. John Eastman and Christina Bobb are under indictment.
The “2000 Mules” distributors have pulled the movie and apologized for making it.
The conservative media company behind the book and film “2,000 Mules,” which alleged a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to steal the 2020 election and was embraced by former President Donald Trump, has issued an apology and said it would halt distribution of the film and remove both the film and book from its platforms.
In a statement posted to their website, Salem Media Group, Inc. apologized specifically to Mark Andrews, a voter from Georgia falsely depicted illegally voting in “2,000 Mules.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation cleared Andrews of wrongdoing, and found he was legally dropping off ballots for members of his family. Andrews filed a defamation lawsuit against Salem, as well as the team behind the movie: right wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, and the group True the Vote.
So, in case I buried the lede, the 2020 election was. not. stolen.
But Trump and his flock continue to live in this unreal world.
Trump was hit with a superseding indictment for his involvement in January 6 and he claims that the DOJ can’t do that because they have a 60-Day rule against interfering with upcoming elections.
He said this 70 days before the 2024 election.
Jack Smith has also appealed to restore his classified documents case, which is likely to succeed. Trump still claims that he’s not really a Special Counsel, even though he obviously is.
Trump is jumping up and down over the revelation that Facebook pulled the Hunter Biden laptop story under governmental pressure from the FBI, but he doesn't seem to realize that it was HIS FBI that did it.
Donald Trump is being mocked for suggesting the White House "rigged" the 2020 presidential election, which he lost. Trump was President in 2020, as critics rushed to remind him.
Trump was referring to a report, originally published by the Wall Street Journal, which states Meta/Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan saying he wants his platforms to be "neutral" in politics, and that he regrets removing or downplaying some content, including COVID disinformation, in response to White House pressure. Zuckerberg also referenced a now-infamous Hunter Biden laptop article in the New York Post. Zuckerberg writes in his letter, "the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election."
Trump on his Truth Social platform wrote:
"Zuckerberg admits that the White House pushed to SUPPRESS HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY (& much more!). IN OTHER WORDS, THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED. FoxNews, New York Post, Rep. Laurel Lee, House Judiciary Committee."
Yeah, the election was “Rigged” by the White House. And who was in the fucking White House all during 2020?
He was.
So he rigged his own election against himself?
Again, that’s bonkers.
Trump has blamed Vice President Harris for the assassination attempt against him.
The former president sat down for an interview that aired Tuesday night with "Dr. Phil" McGraw, saying that the president and vice president, who has since become the Democratic nominee, were partially responsible for failures that allowed a 20-year-old registered Republican to climb atop a roof at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally and fire off shots that may have struck his ear, killed a supporter and seriously wounded two others.
“When this happened, people would ask, whose fault is it?” Trump told the talk show host. “I think to a certain extent it’s Biden’s fault and Harris’s fault, and I’m the opponent. Look, they were weaponizing government against me, they brought in the whole [Department of Justice] to try and get me, they weren’t too interested in my health and safety. They were making it very difficult to have proper staffing in terms of Secret Service."
Yeah, except that’s bullshit.
Multiple officials from the Secret Service have been put on leave for their actions leading up to and responding to the shooting, and director Kimberly Cheatle stepped down, and lawmakers are investigating why warnings from multiple witnesses were not passed on to the GOP nominee's security detail.
"So first of all, I just want to be clear that there's no evidence whatsoever that president Joe Biden or vice president Kamala Harris have tried to purposefully make it more difficult as it relates to Secret Service staffing for Donald Trump," said Treene, the network's congressional and presidential politics reporter who previously covered the Trump White House. "But the point about the rhetoric is something we actually have heard Donald Trump and many republicans argue, that it was the rhetoric and the language that Democrats used against him that contributed to this person attempting to shoot Donald Trump, and so a lot to unpack there."
He's a Former President. He doesn’t get the same size of detail that the Actual President gets. And besides that, manpower wasn’t the issue — there were cops inside the building that the shooter was climbing on top of. Lots of other shit went wrong, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had nothing to do with it.
And it’s not the fact that Biden and Harris have called him a “Felon” that made a registered Republican shoot at him.
Trump has shared a dozen posts on Truth Social that calls for the jailing of the J6 Committee and Jack Smith along with obvious QAnon references and Imagery including allusions to “The Storm”, “Where we go one, we go all” and similar near apocalyptic phrases.
Donald Trump shared more than a dozen posts on his social media network Wednesday that call for the trial or jailing of House lawmakers who investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol, special counsel Jack Smith and others, along with images that reference the QAnon conspiracy theory.
So, yeah again, that’s nuts.
But to be fair, it's not just Trump. He’s not the only lunatic on the loose. There’s also Maria Bartromo and Byron Donalds who theorized that somehow — Obama is secretly behind the government with an “earpiece” based on a joke he told Stephen Colbert.
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Bartiromo wondered who was "running the country while Kamala Harris is out campaigning."
"I'm not quite sure who's running the place," Donalds replied. "Maybe Susan Rice is still in charge for all we know. I have no idea."
"It raises the issue of who's been running the country these past four years and who is expecting to do so in the next four years," Bartiromo opined.
The Fox News host said she "heard" Michelle and Barack Obama were planning to "help" Kamala Harris run the country.
Bartiromo then pointed to a 2020 interview in which Stephen Colbert asked Obama if he would be willing to serve a third term as president.
"And I used to say, you know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand in a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats, looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines," Obama said at the time. "But somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony. I'd be fine with that."
"Is that the plan?" Bartiromo asked Donalds.
"It very well might be," the lawmaker agreed. "Even if you look at the Biden-Harris administration, a lot of the staff are Obama holdovers from the Obama-Biden administration."
"Now you're looking at Kamala Harris," he added. "The rumors are already circulating that she's looking at people to hold over from the current administration now."
Say it with me now -- "That’s nuts.”
Then you have JD Vance criticizing Harris for slagging Trump over his illegal photo-op visit to Arlington Cemetary.
"The other thing our veterans care a lot more about is that three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job, and there hasn't been a single investigation, or a single firing," he said. "Look, sometimes mistakes happen, that's just the nature of government, the nature of military service. But to have those 13 Americans lose their lives, and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful."
"You want to tell a story about those 13 Americans who lost their lives, it's that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won't even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up? She can go to hell!" Vance continued.
We know what happened there — it was a suicide bomber. Who do you think is to blame for that besides the bomber? Also, Kamala Harris hasn’t made any comment at all about Trump’s people assaulting the Cemetery Staffer.
So yet again, that's nuts.
Let’s also point out that the Cemetery staffer that they assaulted has refused to press charges because she’s afraid of Trump supporters retaliating against her.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman joined CNN's "The Source" on Wednesday night to talk about her newspaper's reporting that the family of a Green Beret soldier buried in the cemetery was "clearly displeased" that his gravesite appeared in a TikTok video posted to Trump's account.
Lawmakers and legal experts have said Trump may have violated federal law banning campaign photos and videos in certain sections of the cemetery, including Section 60 — reserved for members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan — where the Green Beret soldier is buried.
During their conversation, Haberman noted an "important" aspect of their reporting that the official who filed an incident report at the cemetery declined to press charges.
"Military officials said that she was afraid that she was going to be retaliated against by Trump supporters," said Haberman. "It's worth noting that the Trump campaign targeted her, suggesting she was having a mental health episode."
Ain’t that some fucked up lowlife bully shit?
After that, Vance went out again and got Booed By Firefighters. Maybe the response would be better if he talked to a crowd of childless cat ladies who work as teachers. Y’know like you find at a Catholic School.
Another in the It’s Not Just Trump column is the Washington Free Beacon who decided to do an in-depth investigation of whether Kamala Harris actually worked for McDonald’s or not.
"NEW: Kamala Harris’s missing 'summer job' at McDonald’s job," posted Hasson to X. "Her resume and job application a year after graduating college — [Free Beacon] obtained through FOIA — don’t mention it. Neither do either of her books, or either of the biographies on her." He posted the paper's report, written by Joseph Simonson, Chuck Ross, and Andrew Kerr, complete with scans of her original application to work in the district attorney's office.
Yeah, because everybody who applies to work as a lawyer would include their summer job at McDonald’s on their resume instead of mentioning that she graduated Top of Her Class from Howard University.
Gezzus.
Trump has told CNN’s Dana Bash to “expose Harris as inept” during their interview tonight— which is just nonsense.
On Truth Social he wrote, "Dana Bash of CNN has a chance at greatness today. If she gave a fair but tough interview of Comrade Kamala Harris, she will expose her as being totally inept and ill suited for the job of President, much as I exposed Crooked Joe Biden during our now famous Debate. How cool would that be for Dana and CNN???"
He then added, "Also, the interview should not have Tampon Tim present to help with the inevitable Kamala stumbles, and under no circumstances should the transcript be allowed to be changed in any way, shape, or form. Dana and Jake were fair, but firm, in my CNN Debate with Crooked Joe. This is a chance for Dana Bash to reach REAL stardom, while at the same time doing a great service to our now failing Country. Good luck, Dana, do the right thing!!! DJT"
And you have Trump reposting sexual references to Harris and Hillary Clinton that they can’t answer for.
The Republican presidential nominee shared a post by another Truth Social user that showed an early photo of Harris and Clinton, with a comment from yet another user referencing oral sex by saying, "Funny how b------- impacted both their careers differently," and Hunt challenged Trump campaign official Jason Miller to justify the demeaning post.
"Well, I saw the social media post, I have not discussed that with the president," Miller said. "I don't know if the president even saw the comment that was on there, or simply the picture, but I would say with regard to Kamala Harris, the attacks that had been levied by Kamala Harris', well, the campaign, by Harris allies against President Trump, not just recently, but over the past year and a half, two years, ever since he came down the escalator, quite frankly, in the case of many left-of-center people have been quite horrific. All of this though, Kasie, is a distraction from the real issues that are going on right now."
Hunt managed to pry an opening into his monologue to ask a follow-up question, asking Miller whether those attacks had been as "horrific" as the lewd post the former president had shared.
"A hundred times worse, Kasie, a hundred times worse, and here's the thing – their social media posts," Miller began.
"But they haven't been sexual in nature in this way," Hunt interrupted.
"Again, I haven't discussed that with the president," Miller replied, before launching another filibuster. "I don't know if the president even saw the comment that was on there. That's not something that I have asked, but we have real people who are struggling with inflation that is hurting this country, with the border crisis. President Trump was just at the border this past week honoring those who've been killed by this migrant invasion. Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin and Laken Riley, three names I do not hear. I do not believe we will hear from Kamala Harris at the debate on [Sept.] 10. That's assuming that Kamala Harris shows up to the debate, which I imagine that she will because Americans deserve to hear why Kamala Harris has been in hiding for 39 days."
Just to be clear, Kamala Harris did date former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown when she was 29 years old. Brown did appoint her to several California Boards and organizations.
But he didn't appoint her to the San Francisco DA’s office. She wasn’t appointed — she was elected District Attorney. She was elected California Attorney General. She was elected California’s Senator. She was elected Vice President.
That shit is nuts.
It’s also sexist and racist as hell as if a Black Woman can’t be smart, accomplished and successful under her own merit. It’s fucked up. The world he sees through his eyes is totally twisted and jaundiced.
It’s not just Trump. These people don’t live in reality. They live in some weird alternate dimension. I know some of this is just narrative and rhetoric, it’s just trying to project onto the world you want voters to see so that they support you and they are against your opponent.
But...
I saw posts from MAGA supporters of Trump claiming that Harris “slept her way to the top” and that “she wasn't really Black” before Trump brought it up and said she “suddenly became Black.”
He’s saying this shit because they’re saying this shit.
As bad as he is — he is largely a reflection of the crazed racist delusional shitheads who have voted for him, and support him. He is the same as the guys who stormed the Capitol, sat down and put their feet up in Nancy Pelosi’s office, tried to attack members of Congress while carrying a knife (Ashli Babbit) and smeared the walls with feces.
Ultimately he’s not the biggest problem and malignant cancer in our nation — they are.
He just tells them where to go and what shit to fuck up.
Fantastic article. You covered so much I will have to read it a couple more times.
They don't live in reality period!