Campaign 2024
Former President Trump Holds Rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Below, my bold from CSPAN:
“A vote for Trump is a vote to save Wisconsin and is a vote to save your country. This country is finished if we don’t win this election,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump told supporters in Green Bay as Wisconsinites made their way to the voting polls for the state’s primary election. He called President Biden “a threat to democracy” and continued to accuse the Biden administration of weaponizing the Justice Department and election interference. The former president’s rally came a day after he posted a $175 million bond in a New York civil fraud case in which a judge found he intentionally inflated his assets to claim favorable loan and insurance claims.
I came acorss this when I was looking for examples of Trump accusing Biden of weaponizing the justice department. This is among the most egregious statements made by Trump. He accuses Biden of doing something that he plans, and has promised, to do. His acusing Biden of weaponizing the Justice Department this stands out. In the speech I am sharing Trump doesn’t explicitely say he will weaponize the Department of Justice but it is an obvious subtext that this is what he plans to do.
Consider the article “Trump sees ‘vengeance’ on the political horizon” from a year ago.
Excerpt:
Trump, after all, has repeatedly spoken over the years about how exacting revenge is a guiding principle.
“If somebody hits you, you’ve got to hit ’em back five times harder than they ever thought possible. You’ve got to get even. Get even,” Trump said in a 2012 speech.
Seven years later, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon remarked that if the then president won reelection in 2020, “You’re going to get pure Trump off the chain. Four years of Donald Trump in payback mode.”
He does actually say he will use local police to identify those who are in the country illegally.
The altered photo below needs no explanation:
I am also sharing this photo without comment as to its relevance. It is of the Secret State Police building which was the official secret police of Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created in 1933 by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia into one organisation.
I doubt any of you are going to endure an hour of listening to Trump and his audience chanting “four more years” as he promises to deport illegal aliens using the local police to identify them. There are too many lies and gross distortions of the truth (Biden is destroying Medicare, for example) to list.
CSPAN has a feature that allows you to do to click the play button and move your cursor over the video. You click on the portion of the text to see the description and watch the video beginning at that segment.
This is the text from the closed captioning. Unfortunately it is in all caps. It was without paragraph breaks but I tried to add a few as he changed topics. The transciption doesn’t include a few of the short comments he made.
I’ve highlighted some words and phrases in bold since it would have been too time consuming to include headings describing what he was talking about in each section. He addresses all of his greatest hits.
The Time Magazine interview with Trump is making the news because Trump is quite candid about how if elected he’d turn the country into a fasicist dicatorship (not using this term of course). You don’t need to read this interview. All you have to do is listen to or read this speech.
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