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Nonilex

In a test of , shows his true

In his , the nominee & fmr president retreats to his instincts

The NYT ran a fine specimen of unintentional comedy this week: an essay by conservative writer titled “Trump Can Win on Character.”🤯

The only thing that could have made it better was if it had been under the byline of .




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The Washington Post · In a test of character, Trump shows his true griftBy Dana Milbank
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Nonilex

Lowry’s argument itself wasn’t quite as absurd as the headline. He was *only* suggesting that repeatedly call MVP “weak,” which Trump probably won’t do [don’t bet on it], because he’s too busy calling her a communist, a copycat, stupid, a recent conversion to being Black or someone w/a crazy laugh who is not as good looking as he is.



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Nonilex

*could* win on various things: inflation, immigration, isolationism [w/his favorite people—the & ]. But the notion that a & adjudicated who shouts barnyard & epithets at his rallies would return to the WH on the strength of his upstanding ? Well, let’s just say there are very fine people on both sides who would have trouble making that argument.



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Nonilex

As though in answer to the suggestion that he can “win on ,” responded over the next couple of days by:

• Holding a campaign event in front of graves at , where his staff reportedly pushed aside a cemetery official trying to enforce rules against politicizing the sacred ground. Trump posed graveside w/a big grin & a thumbs-up, & his campaign set the nominee’s cemetery visit to music & posted it as a TikTok video.


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Nonilex

When a spox commented on the “sad” event, ’s running mate, Sen , declared that Harris herself “can go to hell.” (Vance, after a cool reception last week at a doughnut shop in , got booed by this week in .)



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• announced that 2 of the nation’s most prominent — & — would be co-chairs of his presidential transition if he wins the election, w/influence over key appointments & policies. Gabbard’s trumpeting of has been labeled “” by Sen , & RFKJr’s long-shot pres campaign somehow fizzled after he acknowledged, among other things, having a & leaving a in NYC’s .

#weird
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Nonilex

• Rolling out his latest attempt to cajole his supporters to line his own pockets. This time, he offered another round of “digital trading cards” featuring a superhero. Supporters who parted w/ $1,485 or more in this Trump-enrichment would be sent a piece of the fabric cut from the “knockout suit” he wore during his June debate w/President Joe Biden.



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• proclaimed it was “’s fault & ’s fault” that he was the victim of a failed assassination attempt, asserting w/o evidence that they prevented the from protecting him & that he might have been shot “because of their rhetoric.” The reported the shooter, a , searched online for both Biden & Trump events & settled on the Trump rally as a “target of opportunity.”



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• shared another fusillade of posts on social media that cited slogans, called for the of his opponents, & falsely suggested that used sex to advance her career.

On Thurs, Trump was in & as coarse as ever — referring 2X to ’s running mate, Gov of Minnesota, as “Tampon Tim”; repeating the preposterous that in states “you’re allowed to kill the baby after the baby is born”;



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& saying of Harris: “Nobody knows who the hell she is. She does not give a damn about you.” While complaining that the had said he used the visit “to politic,” he went right on “politicking” about it.

Referring to the families of the fallen he met with, said & “killed their children as though they had a gun in their hand.”



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Nonilex

…Of course, is the one who set the withdrawal in motion. Now, he’s setting another calamity in motion, by getting ready to force to give up its fight against ’s invasion. “Look at what’s going on right now w/Ukraine surging into Russia,” he complained this week, OBJECTING to Ukraine’s recent success. “You’re going to end up in World War III & it’s going to be a bad one.”



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Nonilex

Openly condemning an American ’s success? Vladimir couldn’t have said it better.

can win on ?

What do the just-announced co-chairs of Trump’s team have in common? They both were *witnesses* before the House Select Subcommittee on the [perhaps aspirational?] “Weaponization of the Federal Government” — Rep ’s attempt to prove the existence of the [mythic] , which has been panned even by sympathetic commentators for coming up empty.

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Nonilex

Gabbard…complained to Jordan’s panel about being labeled a . “Fmr Secy of State accused me ... of being ‘groomed by the Russians,’” she testified. “Senator Mitt Romney recently accused me of …”

– Gabbard endorsed in falsely claiming the US was funding biological laboratories in that could spread dangerous pathogens. had warned that the Kremlin-produced lie could give pretext to launch its own attack.

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Nonilex

went before Jordan’s cmte days after he alleged that could be a “” that was “ethnically targeted” to spare “Ashkenazi Jews & Chinese” [WTAF?]. He had previously suggested that restrictions during the were worse than life for in Germany, because “you could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did.”

Kennedy, at the hearing, labeled charges of bigotry against him “defamations & malignancies that are used to censor me.”

#Racist#Conspiracy
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Nonilex

’s crackpot ideas go well beyond to the claim that childhood cause autism, that causes “,” that in the water supply might turn children , that might not be caused by , that stole the 2004 election &that networks are used for mass surveillance. And that was BEFORE we learned about his & the .
 this wk said has “got some very good ideas” that “turned out to be right.”

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Nonilex

And says he’d rely on the judgment of both & to staff up his admin🤯.

Trump can win on !???

“Hello, everyone. This is your favorite president, Donald J. Trump, with some very exciting news. By popular demand, I am doing a new series of Trump digital trading cards!”

So begins the Trump posted on social media this week.



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Nonilex

For just $99 apiece, supporters can…own digital cards showing a young & muscular Trump[🤣]on a motorcycle, holding a lightning bolt [?], & praying[😂].(This 3rd offering of cards, the America First Collection, follows the Mugshot Edition.) Those who cough up $24,750+ will get 2 tickets to “a gala dinner at my beautiful country club in Jupiter, Florida”—& a “bigger” piece of his debate suit.[🤦🏼‍♀️]




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Proceeds go NOT to ’s but to a company he created for the .

Don’t care for the cards? “I have a FANTASTIC new Book coming out in two weeks, ‘SAVE AMERICA,’” Trump also posted this week. “I hand-selected every Photo.” This one is $99, or $499 signed; proceeds go to a company founded by Donald Trump Jr.

These follow other ventures by Trump: sneakers, bibles — you name it.




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But his biggest scheme by far has been convincing supporters to buy stock in , the parent of Truth Social. Investors who bought at the peak have now LOST ~75% of their money, as the market adjusts to the realization that the business is fundamentally . (It loses millions of dollars & produces scant revenue.) But ’s 59% stake in the company is still valued at ~$2.2B —& he can start dumping his shares on Sept 20. Company execs have already begun cashing out.

#grift#con
Nonilex

Loyal supporters who bought in on his [] assurance that is a “highly successful” company are left holding the bag.

Trump can win on character?

Trump is . “Kamala & her ‘handlers’ are trying to make it sound like I am the Incumbent President,” he protested on X. (His return to the platform is another acknowledgment of Truth Social’s .)




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Nonilex

This is true: He’s no longer running against an incumbent president, & has been skillful in making the campaign about ’s record. Trump keeps pining for ’s candidacy. At a stop in Detroit, he admitted that people are advising him “don’t waste your time” on Biden — even as he mentioned his former opponent 5X.

In his , Trump retreats to his instincts.

He makes up stuff.




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He claims that the admin is to blame for the assassination attempt, that the US has “no ammunition,” that his “administration will be great for women & their reproductive rights.”

He is . This week, he shared slogans online (“nothing can stop what is coming,” “where we go one we go all”); doctored images of , , , “crazy” & others in orange jumpsuits;



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& proposals to members of the House select cmte for “” & to prosecute in a “public .”

Trump can win on !?!?

And he’s . This fmr president of the shared a photo of KamalaHarris & as part of a post associating both women w/ oral sex.




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This came as prime-time host , a ally, fantasized ON AIR about “paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her.” (Watters *says* he “wasn’t suggesting anything of a sexual nature.”)

#TrumpIsUnfit#SexualAssault#Disgraceful
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Also, fmr ofcl (& post speaker) responded on X to ’s revised of Trump to conform to a recent ruling: “What the f--- is this Jacko? YOU are going to prison for election interference. You can have Merrick [Garland] as your bunkie.” (Navarro is just out of prison himself.)

#TrumpIsUnfit#weird#Nonsense
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Nonilex

“I always look for good words [?], highly sophisticated — I’m highly educated, I like sophisticated words,” Trump claimed in Detroit this week. But for his opponents, he went on, “there’s only one word I get. That’s stupid — they’re stupid people.”

In his reflexive name-calling, he confirms that there really is one word that describes him better than any other. .

[Trump CANNOT win on .]



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john r red-horse

@Nonilex

He's lying, of course. :)

How do we know that? Because his lips were moving, and sound was emanating from them. (And not, as Michael Cohen states, because he was doing the "accordion hands" thing at that time.)

We also know that because we know that he's too lazy to read a damn thing beyond headlines, and that's only to see if they're about him.

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Steve Hersey

@Nonilex
Let them rant. They can say whatever they want, all the way back to jail.

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bls

@Nonilex Can't ever believe a single word coming out of his fat-ass mouth unless he ever says "I lie about literally everything"

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