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.

[bobbo666]

Hey, NYT, pi$$ off.

Unity with arsholes who bemoan that the shooter missed? Never. They, like he, are evil. Never compromise with evil.

As to insults, still oi$$ off. And, every election that uses mailin ballots is stolen — do the math.

[DesertRhino]

A literary world record! The authors managed to get at least one lie into every sentence!

I guess they think he should shower politeness and complements on Biden. Gold and Levein… noted.

[nagant]

Mr. Trump insulted President Biden’s intelligence repeatedly, calling him “stupid” more than once.
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A bold-faced lie.

Trump mentioned Biden’s name only once:

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/trump-mentions-biden-during-rnc-address-215215173741

[Bishop_Malachi]

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

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I’m just glad that the Left never abandons unity and insults. /s

[BitWielder1]

Unity does not mean joining joining the enemy or agreeing with them.

[Señor Presidente]

Everywhere the “claimed, without evidence,...” canard is used by the media, the reader can be certain the story WILL NOT present, analyze, or refute specific claims or evidence. “The science is settled” by arbitrarily declaring it is.

The corporate media adopted this phraseology, in unison, within days of the election. The fix was in.

[antidemoncrat]

The New York Times aka The New York Slimes ... like most of the Lame Street Media ... under Demonic control now

[caddie]

Yes I don't know who came up with this term, but Emmett Tyrrell used to use it a lot in The American Spectator.

It is so painfully obvious that this is what they are doing.

They are mad that President Trump is calling them stupid, but that is not really true. They are executing their communist plan.

[1FreeAmerican]

Well FJB is stupid - AND he has dementia. A great combination for POTUS...

[simpson96]

...and he will win in November.

Have a nice day, NY Times! :)

[NorthMountain]

Joe Biden IS stupid. Always has been. Stupid, nasty, ignorant, arrogant, corrupt, and vindictive.

[Pearfect]

NYT = NOT YET TRUE

THE ARM OF THE democrat party.