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The Daily Beast reports:
Sporting a new, flesh-colored ear bandage at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday night following the failed attempt on his life last week, Donald Trump claimed, “I took a bullet for democracy.” The former president also broke the promise he made in his convention speech to never talk about the shooting again because he said it was “too painful” for him to recount.
“They keep saying, ‘he’s a threat to democracy,’” Trump explained to the crowd. “I’m saying, ‘What the hell did I do for democracy? Last week I took a bullet for democracy. What did I do against democracy?’ Crazy,” he continued to a roaring crowd during his rally. “Crazy.” The rest of Trump’s speech was riddled with many of the maniacal quirks and barely comprehensible ramblings of the “old” Trump, not the “reborn” version.
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Trump: “I took a bullet for democracy.”
No Corey Comperatore took a bullet. You took a photo op.
Big f**king difference.
pic.twitter.com/oyD3Twskpv— Marlene Robertson (@marlene4719) July 20, 2024
this mf really really hates sharks pic.twitter.com/YWGjL83aTT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump on President Xi: “He’s a brilliant man. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. He makes guys like Biden look like babies.” pic.twitter.com/1OysjiBO8z
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump on authoritarians: “They’re all smart, tough. They love their country … we have to have somebody that can protect us. And Orban was right: we have to have somebody that can protect us.” pic.twitter.com/fmE9bPBPjm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump: “See the screen up there of me? That’s very severe, that combover. That’s a severe sucker. What’s with that one? It looks ok from the other side! … I apologize.” pic.twitter.com/KQ1oCOS3Kr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump on Kamala Harris: “She’s crazy. She’s nuts. She’s not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy.” (Strange how Trump likes to call women crazy
) pic.twitter.com/Bj1WTuIn9e
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump on American troops dying in Afghanistan: “Obliterating, I heard the number, 47. That’s maybe the right number, because we’re looking at 47, you know that, right? Obliterated 47 great young Americans. Their legs gone, their arms gone, their face just wiped out.” pic.twitter.com/j6JeDSkSsK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump’s crowd was silent for a long time as he ranted about a variety of topics, but he gets them reengaged with some transphobic bigotry and a promise to “not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate.” pic.twitter.com/Ni4z3w5v0n
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024
Trump claims that “they’re shoveling ballots into wheelbarrows” in Georgia, which is news to me pic.twitter.com/GSAq4vxmwx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2024