Not surprisingly, the sundowning Malignant Loser, desperate to be back in the spotlight, had a hot mess of a meeting with the press yesterday in his Mar-a-Lardo hidey hole, which we fortunately missed. Unfortunately, Vanity Fair's Bess Levin had to watch so she could write it up. Here are some extended excerpts from her observations:
Amidst reports that he has become unglued by having to compete with Kamala Harris for the presidency, Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. And if the goal was to reassure people that (1) he is not at all freaked out by the vice president’s rising poll numbers and (2) he is the best candidate for the White House, he was not exactly successful!
Trump repeatedly insulted Harris’s intelligence, calling her “barely competent,” saying that she “can't do a news conference” because “she’s not smart enough,” and claiming that she’s “not as smart” as Joe Biden. (As a reminder, Trump thinks there were airports during the Revolutionary War and that it’s safe to inject bleach into the body; he’s also been described as an idiot by numerous people who worked for him.)
As has become a recurring feature of his public remarks, the ex-president also spent time insulting Jewish Americans, saying if they vote for Harris, “they should have their head examined.” He baselessly claimed that Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, has been “very bad to Jewish people.” And, after claiming yesterday that Harris’s decision to pick Tim Walz as her running mate over Josh Shapiro was a snub to Jewish people—and that Shapiro would have been a stronger running mate—he said Shapiro is “a terrible guy and he’s not very popular with anybody.”...
Yada yada barks at the moon. He's clearly not well.
Levin did her best to catalogue a few of the most egregious lies and weirdness coming from the pathologically lying racist convicted felon's mouth:
- That the “majority” of the country supports him (in fact, he lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020)
- That Democrats “are allowed to do abortion on the eighth and ninth month, and even after birth” (Democrats neither allow nor support abortion “even after birth,“ which is murder)
- That “nobody was killed on January 6” (seven people died in connection to the attack, including Trump supporter Ashli Babbit)
- That there was a “peaceful transfer” of power after the last election (See: January 6)
- That Harris is “going to destroy Social Security” (she and Biden have said they will not make any cuts to the program, whereas Trump has talked about “cutting” entitlements, before walking back his comments)
- That his Manhattan criminal trial was run by the Justice Department (it was the Manhattan district attorney’s office)
- That he disapproved of the “lock her up“ chants about Hillary Clinton (in fact, he personally called for her imprisonment on at least seven occasions, including during the 2020 election when he wasn’t even running against her)
- That Harris “couldn’t pass her bar exam” (she did, on the second try, and was admitted to the California bar the year after she graduated law school)
- That “everybody’s going to be forced to buy an electric car” if Democrats win in 2024 (Just…no)
One whopper/ fever dream Ms. Levin didn't note was the Malignant Loser's tale of nearly dying in a helicopter crash. The Daily Beast enters the tangled web:
A hair-raising story Donald Trump told about almost dying in a helicopter ride alongside Kamala Harris’ ex-boyfriend Willie Brown is completely untrue, Brown said.
The former president told the dramatic tale during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday when asked about how Harris’ relationship with Brown, the former San Francisco mayor, may have affected her career. “Well, I know Willie Brown very well,” Trump answered. “In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him.” [snip]
Every aspect of Trump’s account is wrong, according to Brown.
The 90-year-old told The New York Times that he’d never ridden a helicopter with Trump, nor had he ever been close to death during any trip in a chopper. “You know me well enough to know that if I almost went down in a helicopter with anybody, you would have heard about it!”
Brown dated Harris between 1994 and 1995 when he was the speaker of the California State Assembly and Harris was a prosecutor in Alameda County. He remains a supporter of hers and denied ever having told Trump “terrible” things about her. [snip]
It appears that Trump was referring to a helicopter flight he took with Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, and Brown’s successor Gavin Newsom, in 2018. The group were surveying damage from the Camp Fire to the town of Paradise in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
“I call complete B.S.,” Newsom told the Times. “I was on a helicopter with Jerry Brown and Trump, and it didn’t go down.” Trump had mentioned the possibility of crashing repeatedly however, he said. He also claimed they did not discuss Harris on the helicopter.
“There was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris,” Jerry Brown told the Times through a spokesman.
Willie Brown, Jerry Brown. We all know the Malignant Loser doesn't see a person's color, amirite? We suspect if anything remotely like this happened, we would have heard the Tale of Brave DonOld right then and there.
Oh, did we mention he's clearly not well? Though this kind of demented gibberish has become his brand over his public life, it's now devolving into even worse demented gibberish as his desperation and mental incapacity grow. In a way, though, it's rather satisfying to see how rattled the shitgibbon is now that he sees the election slipping away from him. That's tempered by the thought that he could somehow manage to slither into office again, if the media ignores his incapacity (unlike the one- sided focus they put on President Biden). We have work to do to see that never happens.
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(Photo: "It's this big, just ask Stormy!" / AP)
