The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who congratulated himself in
two tweets and a
press release for predicting terrorist attacks like Orlando, while bodies still lay in the Pulse nightclub…
Who congratulated himself after the killing of
Dwyane Wade's cousin.
Who congratulated himself on
predicting Brexit, even though three weeks earlier he had
never heard of Brexit.
Who congratulated himself on Republican Convention
TV ratings, even though those for his closing speech were lower than for
John McCain's.
Who congratulated himself by disseminating a
video showing how much of that speech's total running time was taken up…by applause.
Who congratulated himself on having "
the world's greatest memory," then three weeks later testified in a deposition he
had no memory of saying that.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who has proposed that Russia or China should enact a Watergate-like
hacking of Hillary Clinton's e-mails; who has proposed banning
Muslims from entering the country, then said it was only a
suggestion, then
proposed it again; whose running mate has proposed banning members of
other religions; who has proposed open
racial profiling; who has proposed banning people from "
terror nations," saying, "Look it up, they have a list"; who has proposed "
ideological certification" for immigrants; who has proposed
worse than waterboarding while praising how
Saddam Hussein,
Vladimir Putin, and
Kim Jong-un handled protest and terrorism; who has proposed that American civilians be tried by military commissions at
Gitmo; who has proposed killing the
families of terrorists or suspected terrorists.
A man who has proposed teaching mandatory
patriotism in schools; proposed that his supporters appoint themselves as election-day
voting monitors; proposed making American protection of fellow
NATO members C-O-D; whose campaign proposed
purging the government of all Obama appointees; proposed avoiding government debt by
printing more money; proposed reducing national debt by
paying less than we agreed to; proposed forestalling
new financial regulations by executive order—and then in the same speech proposed eliminating…
some executive orders.
A man who proposed a
wall along the Mexican border to keep out undocumented immigrants; proposed
mass deportation of undocumented immigrants; proposed
a smaller wall and fewer deportations during a taped television interview that played at the same moment he was giving a speech in
Phoenix insisting on a larger wall and more deportations.
A man who has proposed immediately expelling at least two to three million
undocumented immigrants, even though this would be like trying to evacuate the city of Chicago in one day; proposed immediately expelling any others not convicted—but
merely accused—of a crime.
A man who has proposed to enact all this by
executive action, bypassing Congress, even though he
employed undocumented immigrants in the building of Trump Tower; even though those immigrants say he not only knew of them but hired them
personally; even though his own
modeling agency and television shows enabled and employed undocumented immigrants; even though his own wife may have worked here without
proper documentation; even though his own
grandfather was reportedly not merely a fraudulent emigrant to this country but was also denied re-entry to Germany because he was a draft-dodger.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who has claimed he understood the
sacrifice of losing a child in war because he had spent money to hire employees; who has claimed he understood
prejudice against African-Americans because the system is also rigged against him; who claimed the election will be
rigged against him; claimed the
opinion polls are rigged against him, then praised one of the
exact same polls when it favored him; claimed he would be leading those rigged polls by
20 points but for the rigged media; claimed Democrats are voting
ten times each; claimed that his crowd in Colorado Springs would've been larger, but the
fire marshal was a Democrat; claimed that his speech in Washington would have
drawn as many as Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, but "nobody would let them in."
A man who has claimed he was his own best
foreign-policy adviser; claimed that Putin will not go into
Ukraine when he already invaded Ukraine in 2014; claimed the U.S. is paying rent for a military base in
Saudi Arabia when the last one there closed in 2003; claimed that to avoid hacking, the
military should stop communicating "on wires" and return to using messengers.
A man who has claimed that any candidate using a
teleprompter should be ineligible, and then himself
began using a teleprompter; claimed that he doesn't use
notes for speeches during a speech he gave primarily from notes; claimed he will fix the problems of
African-Americans, then days later suggested that an African-American
athlete protesting police shootings should leave this country.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who was revealed to have asked his foreign-policy advisers three times in one hour why this country can't use
nuclear weapons if we have nuclear weapons—after having asked a television interviewer
the same question; who was revealed to have not known what the "
nuclear triad" was.
A man who was revealed to have been the political beneficiary of
fake Internet accounts underwritten by the Kremlin; revealed to have improperly sought
campaign contributions from foreign nationals, including officials of foreign governments.
