German American Bund Rally Night Two at Madison Square Garden
I was all ready to publish and had a knockout (at least to me) title: “Pas de Guerre en la France!” And then Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally happened.
The headlines have been stolen by an opening comedian who told racist jokes about Puerto Ricans, Jews, Palestinians, AND black people. As he insulted key demographic groups in swing states, Republicans were scrambling to distance themselves from the “jokes” including the Trump campaign who said the comedian’s views don’t represent their own.
Except they do.
The remainder of the rally was the typical Trump fodder of racism and sexism. David Rem was billed as Trump’s “childhood friend” despite being 18 years younger than Trump and the two of them meeting for the first time this month. Rem is a big time conspiracy theorist who once touted his candidate’s superior sperm since he wasn’t vaccinated. Regardless, amidst Republican pearl-clutching over calling Trump a fascist, Rem said at the rally that Harris is the anti-Christ. Oddly I have not seen a single Republican using this as an example of rhetoric needing to be toned down.
At the rally Tucker Carlson referred to Harris as “Samoan-Malaysian” and “low IQ” continuing to mock the very idea that someone can be two races.
Grant Cardone implied Harris is a prostitute, referring to “her pimp handlers.”
After the series of racist and sexist speakers, Trump declared “the Republican Party has really become the party of inclusion.” He later went on to say he would win states like New York and California if the votes were accurately counted, continuing his now 8 year claim that all 3 of the past presidential elections have been rigged against him.
Speaking of, Trump is already throwing out conspiracy theories about swing states and how he believes they’re cheating him. I’ll note here that thanks to all of the January 6th investigations, we know Trump was well aware he lost the 2020 election but the plan from before the election even happened was to say there was fraud regardless of the outcome.
Trump is also closing his campaign that the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US capitol was “a day of love” with “a beauty to it.” When asked by a voter why they should support him after the attack, Trump’s response was to mention how much love there was there and attack Mike Pence for certifying Biden’s election.
Like so many other Republicans, in the aftermath of the January 6th attack, Chris LaCivita blamed Trump for the attack directly. And like so many other Republicans, he stopped saying that and is now Trump’s campaign manager.
A plethora of Trump supporters have been posting videos where they are furious they’re asked to remove campaign gear inside polling places. This is not new and is completely normal but it’s given them the chance for their favorite thing - pretending to be victims. One such story (I’ll note I doubt THIS particular one was true) was about an elderly woman who berated poll workers who asked her not to vote in her Trump shirt which she took off. JD Vance responded to this story by calling her “a patriot.” That’s what qualifies as patriotism to them - attacking election workers doing a difficult and thankless job.
Having faced no consequences whatsoever, Trump continues to lie about public schools performing gender-affirming surgeries during the school day without parents’ permission. These surgeries cost in the $40,000 to $50,000 range and are extremely complicated. Teachers use their own money to buy tissues, but somehow districts are spending boatloads on surgeries without parental consent despite not giving out aspirin without it.
Trump has admitted he doesn’t know whether his constant claims of immigrants eating dogs and cats is true and he’s just saying things. This has been a constant issue for him these last 8 years. Even with the largest information source in the world available to him, his knowledge comes mostly from random posts he’s seen on Twitter that mention him.
As part of their fictitious idea that America is a hellhole of crime, Trump said it’s common for people to steal refrigerators, carried on their backs, from department stores. It’s only possible to make this claim if you have never in your life moved a refrigerator.
Trump’s former ICE head has a solution to mixed-status families when Trump’s mass deportation program starts. He wants to deport the legal residents too.
Some of this is very old news, but a large number of people who served in the Trump administration have condemned him and warned about the dangers of re-electing him. Included here are Generals Mattis, Kelly, and Milley. Kelly called him a fascist and talked about his admiration for Hitler and his desire to have generals like Hitler’s. (Hitler’s generals tried to assassinate him multiple times which Trump doesn’t know anything about).
Trump was reportedly incensed over the cost of Vanessa Guillen’s funeral after pledging to pay for it. He told Meadows “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” and told him not to pay for the funeral. (I’ll note that Guillen’s sister has said Trump was wonderful to her family and supported him, but has not refuted any specific details of the article.)
I missed this in the latest Jack Smith filing, but Trump was using burner phones when calling state representatives to pressure them to overturn the election in his favor.
Trump’s lawyers are preparing for legal assaults on the election nationwide, but they’re facing a dilemma as they don’t want to be indicted or lose their law licenses like so many of his lawyers were 4 years ago.
And finally, model Stacy Williams has joined the ranks of women accusing Trump of sexual assault after being introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein. As a court found Trump to have raped E. Jean Carrol with no damage to his political career, expect this to have no impact on the election as Republicans are fine putting a rapist in office.
As of writing, there are 6 days until the 2024 election.
I hope to have another email out before then but I will be posting election coverage the night of on my Bluesky account.
Should the worst happen, this newsletter will continue as normal. I expect her to win though and when she does, I will continue covering Trump news and his various criminal trials.
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