A Week After Shooting, Trump Leaves Unity Behind and Returns to Insults and Election Denial

The New York Times ^ | July 20, 2024 Updated 11:17 p.m. ET | Michael Gold and Simon J. Levien

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At his first campaign rally since he survived an assassination attempt last week, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday launched a litany of attacks that suggested his call for national unity in the wake of the shooting had faded entirely into the background.

Over the course of an almost two-hour speech in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Trump insulted President Biden’s intelligence repeatedly, calling him “stupid” more than once. He said Vice President Kamala Harris was “crazy” and gleefully jeered the Democratic Party’s infighting over Mr. Biden’s political future.

Even as Mr. Trump made numerous false claims accusing his political opponents of widespread election fraud, he presented the continuing push by some Democrats to replace Mr. Biden on their ticket as an anti-democratic effort.

By contrast, Mr. Trump — who falsely insisted he won the 2020 election and whose effort to overturn it spurred a violent attack on the Capitol that threatened the peaceful transfer of power — presented himself as an almost martyr trying to protect the United States from its downfall.

“They keep saying, ‘He’s a threat to democracy,’” Mr. Trump told the crowd of thousands inside the Van Andel Arena. “I’m saying, ‘What the hell did I do with democracy’? Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.”

The line — one of the few additions to a speech that culled from Mr. Trump’s standard rally repertoire — came as Mr. Trump was trying to rebut Democrats’ claims that he was an extremist and distance himself from Project 2025, a set of conservative policy proposals for a potential second term that would overhaul the federal government.

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The New York Times is a specious news source. Every word it publishes is either a lie or projection. Article presented for entertainment purposes only.

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And mean Tweets! Don't forget the mean Tweets!!!

[joshua c]

i agree with the nyt

you shouldnt call someone with dementia who forgets where he is and what he is doing

stupid

the nyt thinks you should call him potus

[Uncle Miltie]

Whatever, NYT.

Gonna win bigly.

[Gena Bukin]

A Week After Shooting, Trump Leaves Unity Behind and Returns to Insults and Election Denial

Cope and seethe, libtards.

If you come for the king, you best not miss.

You missed.

[Right Brother]

Of course, the NYT has never insulted Trump.

[Ken H]

They say it like it’s a bad thing.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder what these two pixies were smokin’ during President Trump’s speech. The gay boyz sure climbed aboard the hate train when their assassin screwed the pooch.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Gee slimes any comment on aoc calling trump a neo nazi yesterday yeah I didn’t think so

[Telepathic Intruder]

Trump was given a week grace period when the media pretended to be sympathetic. Now it’s back to hating his guts and lying constantly about him. They’re angry, bitter, and full of hate because there is still truth in the world which they are not able to kill.

[DeplorablePaul]

“Mr. Trump made numerous false claims accusing his political opponents of widespread election fraud”

NYT inserts the boiler plate “no evidence” lie. Why did MI Democrats pass a law outlawing recounts based on election fraud allegations? Why didn’t the MI AG investigate the sheriff’s evidence of 2020 election fraud? Why did the MI SOS violate state law and mail out a ballot to everyone. How in the hell did Democrats impose a one party state on MI? This pattern of deceit has been repeated in every swing state. No evidence of election fraud my ass.

[Maris Crane]

The New York Times is as old as the Berlin Wall and just as stupid as the people who want to remember and expand THE BERLIN WALL

[Skywise]

Good Lord these people are tone deaf stupid! NYTimes and the DNC broke unity first.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

These people BELIEVE their destruction of Trump and his inner circle is somehow justified these people are mentally unstable, the problem is their dehumanization of Trump activates the MANY mentally unstable crazies out there AND this is exactly what they want!! Not only are the MSM guilty of this our 3 letter agencies are chatting up these unstable people on line and causing these acts of violence!! I hope and pray JD can grow the same brass balls in 4 years he is going to need to continue to clean out that DC cesspool!!

[17th Miss Regt]

I wonder what these two pixies were smokin’ during President Trump’s speech.

Each other's poles.

[Gena Bukin]

Trump was given a week grace period when the media pretended to be sympathetic. Now it’s back to hating his guts and lying constantly about him. They’re angry, bitter, and full of hate because there is still truth in the world which they are not able to kill.

The Left is scared.

This isn't 2016 when Trump took them by surprise (but there were still enough Old Guard GOP to keep his presidency mired in dysfunction).

This isn't 2020 when a ginned-up scamdemic (and some convenient broken water pipes) hobbled his re-election chances.

They've thrown everything at him including bullets and the momentum is only growing.

There will be retribution. They feel it.

Strap in. These next four months are going to get crazy.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL.

[Williams]

We watched the whole speech and loved it. Trump is an entertainer and presents the facts with a lot of humor.
Did he go back on the attack? Yeah pretty much.

[Paladin2]

I’m sure that The Slimes finds Trump to be Hitler 2.0.

May Manhattan be overcome with Sea Rise sooner rather than later...

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Crazy” and “stupid” are NOT INSULTS when used to describe far left turd rollers.

[Peter ODonnell]

I call it election denial denial.

Obviously, they cannot bring themselves to admit the 2020 election was stolen and the people had every right to be angry about it.

In other words, they take pleasure in a lie, and unrighteousness. They were caught in this lie over 19 centuries ago, and don’t realize it (yet).

But it will be their undoing.