Vice President Kamala Harris, her surrogates and media handmaidens spent three days putting a comedian’s ill-chosen words in Donald Trump’s mouth.
Now they are pretending the sitting president didn’t call Trump supporters “garbage” and, even if he did it’s irrelevant because Harris is the one running for president.
Double standards, much?
They keep insisting that Trump and his supporters are Hitler, Nazis, fascists, semi-fascists, deplorables, bitter clingers, and now, “garbage.”
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So, in these last few days before the election, her campaign is doubling down on demonizing Trump and shaming anyone who might think of voting for him, while sending the candidate out to preach fake unity.
‘Only garbage I see’
On Tuesday night, Harris took to the stage on the Ellipse in Washington, DC, hoping to cap a week of denouncing Trump as a “fascist” by reminding everyone about the nearby Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, which is the flimsy central plank of her campaign.
At roughly the same time, a few miles away at the White House, Joe Biden was doing his best to screw things up, as is his wont.
“Donald Trump has no character,” Biden said on a campaign video call to a Hispanic group.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
He was referring to a joke in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during his warm-up act Sunday at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden.
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But that didn’t stop the frenzy as desperate Democrats “pounced” on this meager morsel to justify their rancid defamation of the tens of thousands of patriotic Americans packed inside and outside the stadium.
For a week Harris’ surrogates had claimed that Trump at Madison Square Garden was a recreation of a 1939 Nazi rally.
“One other thing that you’ll see next week is Trump actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden Nazi rally in 1939,” Hillary Clinton declared.
“Neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to pledge their support for the kind of government in Germany.”
Harris running mate Tim Walz also compared Trump’s rally to a Nazi event.
“There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s at Madison Square Garden,” he said.
Asked at a CNN Town Hall last week if she really thought Trump was a “fascist” Harris replied twice: “Yes, I do.”
Taking these campaign talking points literally, MSNBC interspersed real-time footage from Trump’s Sunday rally with black and white archival footage from a 1939 Nazi rally.
Vile lies repudiated
The Jewish Trump supporters in the Madison Square Garden crowd, including Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski, were a repudiation of those vile lies.
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The New York crowd was so diverse and — yes — joyful that it was hard for Democrats to square with their dark comparisons to Nazi Germany, which is why they fell on the comedian’s bad joke like manna from heaven.
The White House later “clarified” Biden’s comments, claiming he was not referring to Trump supporters but only to “hateful rhetoric.”
Harris made a lukewarm effort to distance herself from the comments Wednesday: “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” she told reporters on the noisy tarmac outside Air Force Two.
But that’s exactly the deliberate message of her campaign, that if you vote for Trump there is something wrong with you.
You are morally inferior, deplorable, sexist, a rage-filled misogynist, a racist, a bigot, a Nazi.
Michelle Obama even told male voters last week that if they voted for Trump, “Women will become collateral damage to your rage.”
Biden’s words were on message. It is one thing for a political operative to lie about what Biden said, but it is shameful that the official historic record has been tampered with.
No doubt of hateful slur
The White House put a fake apostrophe in the official transcript of Biden’s comments to try to make it seem that he was talking about only one Trump supporter, the comedian.
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There is no doubt Biden meant what he said as a slur against Trump supporters.
He hates them, and has always talked about them in this fashion, with venom, as “Ultra MAGA” and “semi-fascist.”
He once told a black podcast host that if he voted for Trump over him, “You ain’t black.”
We know Biden is cognitively addled, which is why he is not on the ticket, but his meaning was clear.
He was simply less filtered than the rest of the Harris campaign in articulating their final message.
It’s not just Trump they hate.
It’s anyone who votes for him.
But Trump and his supporters got the last laugh.
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“You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” he said.
“And you can’t be president if you hate the American people.”
Ain’t that the truth, as the haughty elitist Harris campaign is about to find out.
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