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Friday, November 02, 2018

He's Come Undone

Ladies and gentement, the President of the United States, unraveling before your very eyes:

Delivering a lengthy, highly-scripted, highly-political, and highly-ad-libbed anti-immigrant and anti-immigration speech from the White House, President Trump late Thursday afternoon blamed immigrants for illegal drug abuse that leads to death of U.S. citizens while falsely claiming Democrats will allow caravan migrants entering the country to vote.

It's not like the "illegal immigrants voting" thing is new -- he's just ramped it up a few notches. (After all, that's why he lost the popular vote -- all those millions of people voting illegally.) And of course, he's repeated it enough that his cultists will take it as Gospel. (On that note, watch out for "incidents" at the polls on election day.)

This one's really hard to excerpt, so click through and read it -- it's not very long, but it's broken up, and there are tweets mixed in. The bottom line is that he's panicking over the midterms, and immigrants have always been his favorite bogey-man.

White House staffers and President Donald Trump’s inner circle are gearing up for an onslaught of Democratic investigations as polls continue to show that the Republican Party may take a beating at the polls in next Tuesday’s midterms.

According to a report at the Daily Beast, even President Trump is starting to understand that he is going to be under increasing pressure after the midterms despite publically claiming that GOP will pick up more seats in what he calls a “red wave.”

“He’s definitely more spooked than he was before,” said one senior White House official. “Several of us are expecting to spend more time [testifying] on the Hill soon.”

If the Democrats do take back the House, in spite of all the election rigging going on in Republican states, watch for him to try to invalidate the election. After all, that's what his friends Putin, Duterte, Kim, etc. would do.

Digby elaborates on what is the most chilling part of Trump's speech:

"[If] they want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back," Trump said during a press conference at the White House. "We're going to consider it -- and I told them, 'consider that a rifle.' When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say 'consider it a rifle.'"

He's setting the stage for our military to commit war crimes. But then, it won't be a first.

Footnote: As a backgrounder, read this.

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