Here is The List:
The Republican party has actually nominated for president a man who attacked
the Pope.
Who attacked
John McCain for being captured by the North Vietnamese.
Who attacked Gold Star parents
Khizr and Ghazala Khan and then
juxtaposed their names with the phrase "Radical Islamic Terrorism."
Who attacked Hillary Clinton as a "bigot." Who attacked her as "
brainwashed." As "
unhinged." As "
a monster." As "
the devil." As "
the most corrupt candidate ever"—showing her face on piles of hundred-dollar bills and the Star of David.
Who attacked her as someone whom "
Second Amendment people" should do something about. As someone whose
religion "we don't know anything about"—after he explained he had never asked God for
forgiveness.
Who attacked President Obama and implied he was a
traitor. Who attacked him as having been
complicit in the Orlando terrorist attack. Who attacked him for having lower
approval ratings than Vladimir Putin, as if Putin's could be trusted. Who attacked him as being born in
another country. Who attacked him as the
founder of ISIS, then said it
was sarcasm, then said it
wasn't sarcasm, then attacked him again as the
founder of ISIS.
Who attacked Carly Fiorina for her
face; Hillary Clinton for her non-presidential "
look"; Heidi Cruz for her
appearance;
Megyn Kelly for having "blood coming out of her wherever"; Mika Brzezinski as "
crazy and very dumb," "
neurotic," "
not very bright."
Who attacked the women who
accused Roger Ailes of harassment.
Who attacked the women who choose abortion—and said there should be
punishments.
Who attacked a
New York Times reporter because he had a
condition that made his arms look atypical; who attacked
Judge Gonzalo Curiel because he was of Mexican descent; who attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren over allegedly lying about her heritage to get into
Harvard when she never went to Harvard; who attacked Senator Jeff Flake by saying he won't be
re-elected this year, when he isn't up for election until 2018.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who attacked
U.S. troops in Iraq and claimed they stole millions; who has attacked
Ted Cruz's father and claimed he was connected to the assassination of President Kennedy; attacked
Bill Clinton and claimed he was a rapist.
Who attacked
Mexicans as rapists, bringing drugs and crime; who attacked
African-Americans and claimed they were all living in poverty with no jobs and schools that were no good; who attacked
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as a "war zone" and attacked the
United States of America and claimed it is in a "death spiral."
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who lied about opposing the war in Iraq, when there is a tape of him supporting it. A
tape recorded on the first anniversary of 9/11…
Who lied about opposing the war in Iraq during a
speech in which he insisted, "I will never lie to you."
Who lied about six million dollars in charitable donations to
veterans’ groups from his telethon; who lied about donating his profits from
The Apprentice, about charitable donations from
The Celebrity Apprentice, and from "
Trump the Game" to
St. Jude Cancer Center.
Who lied about a
plan to debate Bernie Sanders for charity.
Who lied about why he wouldn't release his taxes, because he was being
audited and
proved himself a liar by saying he would release his taxes if Hillary Clinton released her e-mails; who lied about how much
money his father gave him or helped him get, coming out of college; who lied about sending his
private jet to ferry stranded U.S. servicemen; who lied about
talking to the Attorney General of Florida, who declined to investigate Trump University after she was given a
campaign donation; who lied about his business in
Russia; who lied about meeting Russian president
Putin; who lied about offering
child care to his employees, when it was child care for his hotel guests; who lied about "some people" wanting a
moment of silence for the murderer of five Dallas policemen; who lied about seeing
thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11; who lied about 9/11 hijackers sending their
wives and girlfriends home to Saudi Arabia.
Who lied about thousands of Syrian refugee terrorists being
secretly admitted to this country; who lied about the
Chicago police urging him to cancel a rally; who lied about the Chicago police saying they could solve crime there with "
tough police tactics"; who lied about how there was
no drought in California, how he never said
Japan should have nuclear weapons, how he opposed the ouster of
Egyptian president Mubarak, how the unemployment rate is
42 percent.
Who lied about ISIS making millions a week selling
Libyan oil; who lied about dozens of
secret terrorist cases in this country; who lied that a
protester who tried to rush onto his stage had "ties to ISIS"; who lied
last May and again
last week about refugees entering this country carrying cell phones with "ISIS flags on them" and phone plans pre-paid by ISIS!
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 waterboardingwhile 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 pointsbut 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
athleteprotesting 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 accountsunderwritten by the Kremlin; revealed to have improperly sought
campaign contributions from foreign nationals, including officials of foreign governments.
A man who was revealed to have
erased all his e-mails, including those sought in a lawsuit, for five years; revealed to have
plagiarized 20 pages in his Trump Institute handbook; revealed to have
employed the purported author of his wife's Convention speech, which
plagiarized part of a speech written for Michelle Obama by Hillary Clinton's former
speechwriter; revealed to have said on
his 2008 radio show that Hillary Clinton would "make a good president."
A man who was revealed to have admitted using the
pseudonyms "John Barron" and "John Miller" while pretending to be his own press spokesman and boasting of his sexual conquests in the 1990s; revealed to have used the pseudonym "John Baron" while his company
threatened its undocumented workers; revealed to have telephoned one
television network to alert it to something positive being said about him on another television network.
A man revealed to have millions in outstanding loans to the
Bank of China; revealed to have tried to make investment deals with
Muammar Gaddafi; revealed to have once kept a book of
Hitler's speeches in a cabinet near his bed.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who has allied himself with his campaign adviser and delegate, who said Hillary Clinton should be shot by
firing squad for treason; who has allied himself with another campaign adviser who mused about
waterboarding Hillary Clinton; who has allied himself with an African-American pastor who disseminated an image of Hillary Clinton in
blackface; who has allied himself with his own son, who follows a series of white-supremacist
Twitter accounts…
A man who has allied himself with at least
seven campaign staffers who have disseminated racist and/or violent messages on social media; who has allied himself with a state campaign co-chairman who
tweeted, "Lynch Loretta Lynch"; who has allied himself with an Illinois Trump delegate who is a
white supremacist; a California Trump delegate who is a
white-nationalist leader; a former personal
butler who wrote on Facebook that President Obama should be "hung for treason."
A man who has allied himself with three different campaign chiefs: the
first who manhandled a woman reporter, then lied about it; the
second who was listed to receive $12 million from a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine; the third who has been accused under oath of
anti-Semitic comments and
domestic violence.
A man who has allied himself with a foreign-policy adviser accused under oath of
anti-Semitic comments; with a
New York State co-chair who suggested Khizr Khan supports ISIS and is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood; with a
close adviser who says a Clinton aide could be a "Saudi spy" or "terrorist agent."
A man who has allied himself with a former campaign state chairman accused of
drawing a gun on another campaign staffer; with a conspiracy-theorist radio host who claims the
Newtown school shootings were a hoax; with a political operative so corrupt he was once
fired—by Republicans—for
falsifying evidence…against Hillary Clinton.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who has offered to pay
the legal fees of any supporter who becomes physically violent against a heckler; who encouraged crowd members to harass and threaten
a reporter, whom he called out by name and who then needed Secret Service protection; who accepted a
military medalfrom an audience member and said, "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier"; who conducted a news conference to introduce his
running mate, only to spend the first 25 minutes talking only about himself; whose prominent
Latino surrogatewarned Mexican immigration would put "taco trucks on every corner"—four months after the nominee commemorated Cinco de Mayo by
tweeting a photo of himself eating from a taco bowl.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who
tweeted thanks to singer Billy Joel for dedicating a song to him, never realizing Joel was, by doing so,
mocking him; who gave a trade speech in Monessen, Pennsylvania, standing in front of a wall made out of bales of
compressed garbage; who bragged during a presidential debate about the
size of his genitalia; who gave a television
interview while seated in front of a photograph of himself wearing the same suit, shirt, and tie; who appeared, in a joint news conference with the president of Mexico, with two bobby pins visible, holding his
hairdoin place.
The Republican Party has actually nominated for president an irresponsible, unrealistic, naive, petulant, childish, vindictive, prejudiced, bigoted, racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, fascistic, authoritarian, insensitive, erratic, disturbed, irrational, inhuman individual named Donald John Trump.
This…is madness.
Any questions?