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Trump airs list of false grievances at Florida rally: ‘We don’t eat bacon any more’
"Oh boy. Trump’s Doral rally tonight was a doozy. Let’s recap it:"
Ex-president returns to campaign trail in Doral and makes baseless accusations but doesn’t name running mate
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Wed 10 Jul 2024 12.01 AEST
Last modified on Wed 10 Jul 2024 21.21 AEST
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at his golf resort in Doral, Florida, on 9 July 2024. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in Florida on Tuesday night, hurling insults at Joe Biden and airing a litany of familiar grievances, but declining to name a running mate for November’s general election.
The former president and presumptive Republican nominee was speaking to a crowd of several hundred supporters at his golf club in Doral, a western suburb of Miami, keeping them waiting in 90F heat for a freewheeling monologue that began more than an hour later than scheduled.
There was speculation that he might use his first public appearance since last month’s debate with the president to announce Florida senator Marco Rubio, who was present, as his vice-presidential pick, six days ahead of the Republican national convention (RNC) in Milwaukee.
Instead, Trump delivered a rambling 75-minute speech that included a succession of attacks on Biden and his faltering debate performance, which has raised questions among Democrats about whether the 81-year-old president was robust enough for a second term of office.
He seized on the post-debate turbulence that has prompted calls from some senior Democrats for Biden to step down and for Kamala Harris to be nominated.
“The radical left Democratic party is divided in chaos, and having a full-scale breakdown all because they can’t decide which of their candidates is more unfit to be president, sleepy, crooked Joe Biden or laughing Kamala,” he said, repeating previous derogatory terms for the pair.
“Despite all the Democrat panic this week, the truth is it doesn’t matter who they nominate because we are going to beat any one of them in a thundering landslide.”
Trump has kept a lower than usual profile in the days since the debate, a strategy an aide described as designed to allow Democrats to tear into each other following Biden’s dismal debate performance.
His remarks on Tuesday were notable for adding the vice-president’s name to numerous attacks on Biden policies, and sprinkling in mentions of both Rubio and Byron Donalds, a Republican Florida congressman also believed to be on Trump’s shortlist for vice-president.
Otherwise, it was a standard Trump stump speech, full of evidence-free claims that his 2020 election defeat was fraudulent; baseless accusations that overseas nations were sending to the US “most of their prisoners”; and a laughable assertion that a gathering of supporters numbering in the hundreds was really a crowd of 45,000.
It also touched on the surreal. Biden, he insisted, had raised the price of bacon four-fold.
“We don’t eat bacon any more,” Trump said.
Electric cars, he said, “cheated” the US public because drivers had to stop for three hours to recharge their vehicles after every 45 minutes of driving. And, in an echo of one of the more bizarre debate exchanges with Biden over who was the better golfer, he challenged his White House successor to 18 holes over the Doral course while granting a 10-stroke concession.
“It will be among the most watched sporting events in history, maybe bigger than the Ryder Cup or even the Masters,” Trump said, pledging $1m to a charity of Biden’s choosing if he lost.
Returning to politics, Trump assailed Democrats for tax hikes he said they wanted to impose; criticized Biden for the US military’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan; and promised to build an “iron dome” missile defense system for the US, if he was elected in November.
Perhaps worn down by the energy-sapping humidity .. https://x.com/GlennaWPLG/status/1810743561387921802 , the crowd appeared mostly subdued, including yawns in the bleachers behind him as Trump drew to a close with slow music playing, and others tapping disinterestedly on their phones.
His campaign had touted the possibility of Trump announcing a vice-presidential pick on Tuesday, but in the end his only reference to the post was suggesting that Rubio might or might not still be in the Senate to vote to allow Nevada waitresses to keep their tips untaxed.
There was no mention of Ohio senator JD Vance, or North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, other Republicans .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans .. said to be on the shortlist. Trump will rally again on Saturday in Pennsylvania, close to the Ohio border, with Vance expected to be a speaker.
Earlier on Tuesday, Democrats, on a Biden campaign call featuring the first lady, Jill Biden, and previewing Trump’s Doral rally, mocked him for his low-key approach since the debate.
“I hope he hasn’t exhausted himself with all the golf that he’s been playing,” Texas congresswoman Veronica Escobar said.
What is Project 2025 and what is Trump’s involvement?
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/what-is-project-2025-trump
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[Insert: * Project 2025 Google searches surpassed both Taylor Swift and NFL football.
Good news for America. The people are waking up.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174731976
* How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?
[...]Most recently, the three-year “Biden bribery” hysteria Republicans in the House have been running — including thousands of hits on Fox “News” and all over rightwing hate radio — turns out to have been a Russian intelligence operation originally designed to help Trump win the 2020 election. The Russian spy who’d been feeding this phony info to “Gym” Jordan and James “Gomer Pyle” Comer is now in jail.
[...]He sold over $100 million worth of condos to more than sixty Russian citizens during that era, and partnered with professional criminals and money launderers to raise money for Trump properties in Azerbaijan and Panama. According to Trump himself, he sold $40 to $50 million worth of apartments to the Saudis.
P - He then partnered with a former high Soviet official, Tevfik Arif, and a Russian businessman, Felix Sater, who’d been found guilty of running a “huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia.”
[...]“A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted ‘no single group... more than African-Americans.’ …
P - “Thousands of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and You Tube accounts created by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) were aimed at harming Hillary Clinton’s campaign and supporting Donald Trump, the committee concludes.
P - “More than 66% of Facebook adverts posted by the Russian troll farm contained a term related to race.
P - “African-American community voters were discouraged from voting, and from supporting Hillary Clinton.”
[...]Meanwhile, under Trump’s and Putin’s direction, Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can to damage the people of the United States.
P - They believe it will help them in the 2024 election if they can ruin the US economy while convincing American voters that our system of government is so corrupt (“deep state”) that we should consider replacing democracy with an autocratic strongman form of government like Putin’s Russia. Tucker Carlson is even suggesting that Russia is a better place to live than the US.
P - They revel in pitting racial, religious, and gender groups against each other while embracing a form of fascism that pretends to be grounded in Christianity, all while welcoming Putin’s social media trolls who are promoting these divisions.
P - Republican-aligned think tanks are working on Project 2025, a naked attempt to consolidate power in the White House to support a strongman president who can override the will of the people, privatize Social Security and Medicare, shut down our public school system, fully criminalize abortion and homosexuality (Sam Alito called for something like that this week), and abandon our democratic allies in favor of a realignment with Russia, China, and North Korea.
February 22, 2024 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173900429
* Christian Nationalist Insiders Are Prepping for Trump's 'Dystopian' Return
[...]Politico, which obtained the documents, reported .. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/donald-trump-allies-christian-nationalism-00142086 .. that staffers at the Center for Renewing America (CRA) included "Christian nationalism"—the promotion of the belief that the U.S. was founded as a Christian country and should emphasize "Christian values" in its policies—on a list of priorities for a second Trump term.
P - CRA's president is Russell Vought, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, who Politico reported believes his continued close ties to the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee "will elevate Christian nationalism as a focal point in a second Trump term." The two speak at least once a month, the outlet reported.
P - Vought has been frequently named as a potential White House chief of staff should Trump win a second term, which could position him to carry out other proposals in the CRA document, including:
P - * Invoking the Insurrection Act as soon as Trump takes office, allowing him to deploy the military to stop protests;
P - * Impounding .. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html .. federal funds, or refusing to spend money appropriated by
Congress, as former President Richard Nixon did to block agencies from taking on projects he opposed before Congress banned the practice; and
P - * Creating .. https://newrepublic.com/post/179150/christian-nationalist-second-trump-term-plans?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social //
other new ways to expand Trump's presidential power.
March, 2024 -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174005098]
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“Speaking of staying off the campaign trail, Trump has been hiding a lot recently, not just from voters and from the press, but from Project 2025.
“Donald Trump tried to pretend that he had nothing to do with Project 2025 despite the fact that it was written for him by the people who know him best. And yesterday, his campaign preview of the RNC platform was just as unhinged and extreme as Trump himself. They left out some of the most unpopular specifics .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/republican-abortion-ban-policy-platform-trump .. that we know they support.
“As usual, they’re trying to hide the ball from the American public.”
Trump, in his speech on Tuesday, avoided mention of Project 2025 or his policy on abortion.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/trump-doral-florida-campaign-rally
"Oh boy. Trump’s Doral rally tonight was a doozy. Let’s recap it:"
Ex-president returns to campaign trail in Doral and makes baseless accusations but doesn’t name running mate
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Wed 10 Jul 2024 12.01 AEST
Last modified on Wed 10 Jul 2024 21.21 AEST
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at his golf resort in Doral, Florida, on 9 July 2024. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in Florida on Tuesday night, hurling insults at Joe Biden and airing a litany of familiar grievances, but declining to name a running mate for November’s general election.
The former president and presumptive Republican nominee was speaking to a crowd of several hundred supporters at his golf club in Doral, a western suburb of Miami, keeping them waiting in 90F heat for a freewheeling monologue that began more than an hour later than scheduled.
There was speculation that he might use his first public appearance since last month’s debate with the president to announce Florida senator Marco Rubio, who was present, as his vice-presidential pick, six days ahead of the Republican national convention (RNC) in Milwaukee.
Instead, Trump delivered a rambling 75-minute speech that included a succession of attacks on Biden and his faltering debate performance, which has raised questions among Democrats about whether the 81-year-old president was robust enough for a second term of office.
He seized on the post-debate turbulence that has prompted calls from some senior Democrats for Biden to step down and for Kamala Harris to be nominated.
“The radical left Democratic party is divided in chaos, and having a full-scale breakdown all because they can’t decide which of their candidates is more unfit to be president, sleepy, crooked Joe Biden or laughing Kamala,” he said, repeating previous derogatory terms for the pair.
“Despite all the Democrat panic this week, the truth is it doesn’t matter who they nominate because we are going to beat any one of them in a thundering landslide.”
Trump has kept a lower than usual profile in the days since the debate, a strategy an aide described as designed to allow Democrats to tear into each other following Biden’s dismal debate performance.
His remarks on Tuesday were notable for adding the vice-president’s name to numerous attacks on Biden policies, and sprinkling in mentions of both Rubio and Byron Donalds, a Republican Florida congressman also believed to be on Trump’s shortlist for vice-president.
Otherwise, it was a standard Trump stump speech, full of evidence-free claims that his 2020 election defeat was fraudulent; baseless accusations that overseas nations were sending to the US “most of their prisoners”; and a laughable assertion that a gathering of supporters numbering in the hundreds was really a crowd of 45,000.
It also touched on the surreal. Biden, he insisted, had raised the price of bacon four-fold.
“We don’t eat bacon any more,” Trump said.
Electric cars, he said, “cheated” the US public because drivers had to stop for three hours to recharge their vehicles after every 45 minutes of driving. And, in an echo of one of the more bizarre debate exchanges with Biden over who was the better golfer, he challenged his White House successor to 18 holes over the Doral course while granting a 10-stroke concession.
“It will be among the most watched sporting events in history, maybe bigger than the Ryder Cup or even the Masters,” Trump said, pledging $1m to a charity of Biden’s choosing if he lost.
Returning to politics, Trump assailed Democrats for tax hikes he said they wanted to impose; criticized Biden for the US military’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan; and promised to build an “iron dome” missile defense system for the US, if he was elected in November.
Perhaps worn down by the energy-sapping humidity .. https://x.com/GlennaWPLG/status/1810743561387921802 , the crowd appeared mostly subdued, including yawns in the bleachers behind him as Trump drew to a close with slow music playing, and others tapping disinterestedly on their phones.
His campaign had touted the possibility of Trump announcing a vice-presidential pick on Tuesday, but in the end his only reference to the post was suggesting that Rubio might or might not still be in the Senate to vote to allow Nevada waitresses to keep their tips untaxed.
There was no mention of Ohio senator JD Vance, or North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, other Republicans .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans .. said to be on the shortlist. Trump will rally again on Saturday in Pennsylvania, close to the Ohio border, with Vance expected to be a speaker.
Earlier on Tuesday, Democrats, on a Biden campaign call featuring the first lady, Jill Biden, and previewing Trump’s Doral rally, mocked him for his low-key approach since the debate.
“I hope he hasn’t exhausted himself with all the golf that he’s been playing,” Texas congresswoman Veronica Escobar said.
What is Project 2025 and what is Trump’s involvement?
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/what-is-project-2025-trump
----------
[Insert: * Project 2025 Google searches surpassed both Taylor Swift and NFL football.
Good news for America. The people are waking up.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174731976
* How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?
[...]Most recently, the three-year “Biden bribery” hysteria Republicans in the House have been running — including thousands of hits on Fox “News” and all over rightwing hate radio — turns out to have been a Russian intelligence operation originally designed to help Trump win the 2020 election. The Russian spy who’d been feeding this phony info to “Gym” Jordan and James “Gomer Pyle” Comer is now in jail.
[...]He sold over $100 million worth of condos to more than sixty Russian citizens during that era, and partnered with professional criminals and money launderers to raise money for Trump properties in Azerbaijan and Panama. According to Trump himself, he sold $40 to $50 million worth of apartments to the Saudis.
P - He then partnered with a former high Soviet official, Tevfik Arif, and a Russian businessman, Felix Sater, who’d been found guilty of running a “huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia.”
[...]“A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted ‘no single group... more than African-Americans.’ …
P - “Thousands of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and You Tube accounts created by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) were aimed at harming Hillary Clinton’s campaign and supporting Donald Trump, the committee concludes.
P - “More than 66% of Facebook adverts posted by the Russian troll farm contained a term related to race.
P - “African-American community voters were discouraged from voting, and from supporting Hillary Clinton.”
[...]Meanwhile, under Trump’s and Putin’s direction, Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can to damage the people of the United States.
P - They believe it will help them in the 2024 election if they can ruin the US economy while convincing American voters that our system of government is so corrupt (“deep state”) that we should consider replacing democracy with an autocratic strongman form of government like Putin’s Russia. Tucker Carlson is even suggesting that Russia is a better place to live than the US.
P - They revel in pitting racial, religious, and gender groups against each other while embracing a form of fascism that pretends to be grounded in Christianity, all while welcoming Putin’s social media trolls who are promoting these divisions.
P - Republican-aligned think tanks are working on Project 2025, a naked attempt to consolidate power in the White House to support a strongman president who can override the will of the people, privatize Social Security and Medicare, shut down our public school system, fully criminalize abortion and homosexuality (Sam Alito called for something like that this week), and abandon our democratic allies in favor of a realignment with Russia, China, and North Korea.
February 22, 2024 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173900429
* Christian Nationalist Insiders Are Prepping for Trump's 'Dystopian' Return
[...]Politico, which obtained the documents, reported .. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/donald-trump-allies-christian-nationalism-00142086 .. that staffers at the Center for Renewing America (CRA) included "Christian nationalism"—the promotion of the belief that the U.S. was founded as a Christian country and should emphasize "Christian values" in its policies—on a list of priorities for a second Trump term.
P - CRA's president is Russell Vought, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, who Politico reported believes his continued close ties to the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee "will elevate Christian nationalism as a focal point in a second Trump term." The two speak at least once a month, the outlet reported.
P - Vought has been frequently named as a potential White House chief of staff should Trump win a second term, which could position him to carry out other proposals in the CRA document, including:
P - * Invoking the Insurrection Act as soon as Trump takes office, allowing him to deploy the military to stop protests;
P - * Impounding .. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html .. federal funds, or refusing to spend money appropriated by
Congress, as former President Richard Nixon did to block agencies from taking on projects he opposed before Congress banned the practice; and
P - * Creating .. https://newrepublic.com/post/179150/christian-nationalist-second-trump-term-plans?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social //
other new ways to expand Trump's presidential power.
March, 2024 -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174005098]
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“Speaking of staying off the campaign trail, Trump has been hiding a lot recently, not just from voters and from the press, but from Project 2025.
“Donald Trump tried to pretend that he had nothing to do with Project 2025 despite the fact that it was written for him by the people who know him best. And yesterday, his campaign preview of the RNC platform was just as unhinged and extreme as Trump himself. They left out some of the most unpopular specifics .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/republican-abortion-ban-policy-platform-trump .. that we know they support.
“As usual, they’re trying to hide the ball from the American public.”
Trump, in his speech on Tuesday, avoided mention of Project 2025 or his policy on abortion.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/trump-doral-florida-campaign-rally
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