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

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[frank ballenger]

And you, NYT and the rest of your leftist anti-American Marxist revolutionaries, never missed a beat in your hatred of Trump and other good people.

You didn’t give the GOP call for harmony even one second.

Joy Reid, Michael Steele, Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of you can’t let up.

[Paladin2]

” call it election denial denial.”

+10

[mbrfl]

Translation: It’s okay to start calling him a threat to democracy again.

[KC_Conspirator]

NY Times lying again, written by people I would expoect to peddle the same lies.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

The absolute PROOF of election fraud is EVERY damn state with ALL mail in ballots is ONE PARTY DEM RULE, CA., OR., WA., CO., ALL were once conservative or swing states NOW not a chance in hell of getting ANYTHING but a Dem elected!!

[ealgeone]

Demoncrats didn’t even go 24 hours before ditching the tone down the rhetoric nonsense.

[JohnnyP]

There is no uniting with those who want you dead.

[Luke21]

He called Kamala “stupid” several times too. Don’t forget to use that you loser commie pigs.

[Maris Crane]

Ohhhh, ARE YOUR LITTLE FEELINGS HURT BECAUSE ALL THE CRAP YOU THREW AT HIM DIDN’T WORk????????????????????????

TOO DAMNED BAD. NOTHING YOU CREEPS PLAN TO DO OR REPORT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

The delightful JOE BIDEN IS YOUE LEADER AND DONALD J TRUMP IS OUR LEADER.

LIVE WITH IT NEW YORK TIMES AND ALL THE OTHER LOSERS ON YOUR SIDE.

[wiseprince]

Better Headline: A week after Trump shooting Biden remains holed up in bed.

[NoLibZone]

There can be no unity with those who were sad the shooter missed.

[clearcarbon]

"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."

[Lockbox]

NY Times longs for a clean, articulate Black Man with sharp pressed crease. They did not care if every word out of his mouth was a lie!

“If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”, “There Is No Spying On Americans“, “neighborhoods where it’s easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable.”.

[Samurai_Jack]

There are some conservative talkers who don’t want to be labeled ‘a denier’. They insist that the 2020 election was indeed not ‘stolen’, but it was instead ‘rigged’. That distinction apparently keeps them from being labelled a denier. However, they’ve got to know that it is a distinction without a difference.

[Lean-Right]

Mr. Trump?
That tells you something
right there. Even I have
enough respect to call Mr.
Biden, President Biden.
Even if in name only.
The New York Slimes are at
it again.

[Trump_Triumphant]

Biden was saying nasty stuff about Trump on Wednesday when he spoke at the NAACP. The usual democracy nonsense, making fun of Trump losing his shows, basically calling Trump evil and a threat with some changes in the wording. Where’s The NY Slimes article about that?

[equaviator]

When Trump speaks "truth to power" he's speaking truth to the American people...like never before...He knows it, we know it, and we can handle it.

[Kid Shelleen]

Project 2025 is going to be the bogeyman for 2024 election.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> dehumanization of Trump activates the MANY mentally unstable crazies out there<<

Anarcho-tyranny - the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that same power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety.

[odawg]

A week after the shooting, The New York Times returns to its anti-Trump, venomous propaganda.

Insulting your political opponent had nothing whatsoever with national unity.

If that were the case, running against an opponent is disrupting national unity.

Does Biden inhabit the default position on national unity?

Biden lives and breathes disunity and pointing it out helps establish a pathway to national unity.