THIS IS IT

Speaking last night at the “Believers Summit Turning Point Action” in Florida, our 78 Year Old Criminal, Donald Trump, went all the way, far beyond anything he has said before about how he plans to overthrow the Constitution and to hold power permanently as President For Life.

Forget his denials of any knowledge about the Project 2025 plan to destroy the American Republic. He fully plans to implement that assault on democracy and create a Christian Theocratic dictatorship, albeit a theocratic dictatorship whose overlord is the furthest thing from “Christian,” a leader who is the embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins. He really is the Antichrist.

Departing once again from reading the prepared remarks on his teleprompter, Donald Trump launched into a shouted diatribe:

“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time! You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you don’t have to vote.”

And the crowd ate it up, overjoyed at the opportunity to give up the freedoms of this country they now see as opression.

Heather Cox Richardson commented, “This chilling statement comes after Trump praised autocratic Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in his speech at the Republican National Convention last week and then publicly praised China’s president Xi Jinping for being “brilliant” because he “controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.” It should also be read against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States that a president cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his “official duties.”

And how did the Fourth Estate, those designated “defenders of democracy,” report this?

The headline at the Washington Post was: “Trump Talks Abortion, Religious Liberty in Florida Speech.”

“Former president Donald Trump promised attendees at a Florida summit hosted by Turning Point Action — a conservative group seeking to return him to the White House — that in a second term, he would “once again appoint rock-solid conservative judges who will protect religious liberty.” Trump urged attendees at the faith-themed event to vote, promising that in four years, “we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

At least they mentioned the threat, even if they didn’t point it out.

The New York Times reported: “Trump, Honing His Attacks on Harris, Casts Her as a Far-left Threat.”

“Speaking at the Believers Summit, a faith-focused conference hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump invoked the specter of San Francisco — a liberal city long used as shorthand by conservatives eager to denigrate Democrats — as he argued that Ms. Harris would, if elected, impose far-left values on the country.

At least this came in the third paragraph:

“Trump encouraged the crowd of mostly Christians to vote, but said that his second term would be so successful that they wouldn’t need to vote in the next election. “We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote,” he said with a hand wave.”

You’d think it was just a throwaway, rather than the major departure from prepared remarks that it was.

Politico - aka “Tiger Beat on the Potomac” - reported: “At South Florida Rally, Trump Cycles Through New Attacks On Harris.”

“Former President Donald Trump tested out new attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris in front of a conservative audience on Friday evening, linking her to Biden administration policies on immigration and crime, with additional jabs at the state of California — and the pronunciation of her name.

“Trump’s address on friendly turf at the conservative Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit was in many ways a run of his frequent hits — that the 2020 election was “rigged,” the end of Roe v. Wade was something “everybody” wanted, and the U.S. has become a “dumping ground” for criminals from other countries.

“As he ran through a range of familiar campaign issues at the summit, billed as an event to “unite Christians across America,” Trump threw out attacks at Harris on each one. On immigration, he called her the “border czar” — a term Republicans have sought to attach to her diplomatic assignment working with Central American countries to address causes of migration, and that Democrats have tried to distance her from. Later, he suggested that Turning Point’s next conference might as well be held in Caracas, Venezuela, because crime had dropped there while that country’s criminals had left for the U.S.

At the very end, they reported...

“Concluding his remarks, Trump told the audience that it was important for Christians to get out and vote in November. Four years from now, he argued, the country will be “fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

Once again, there’s no reporting on the important part of Trump’s speech, the reveal that he is the threat to the Republic he is. “We’ve covered Trump,” they say. “It’s just Trump being crazy.”

The Harris campaign reacted to Trump’s dark statements by ridiculing them, and him: “Tonight, Donald Trump couldn’t pronounce words [he mispronounced “landslide” as “land slade], insulted the faith of Jewish and Catholic Americans, lied about the election (again), lied about other stuff, bragged about repealing Roe, proposed cutting billions in education funding, announced he would appoint more extremist judges, revealed he planned to fill a second Trump term with more criminals like himself, attacked lawful voting, went on and on and on, and generally sounded like someone you wouldn’t want to sit near at a restaurant—let alone be President of the United States.

“America can do better than the bitter, bizarre, and backward looking delusions of criminal Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris offers a vision for America's future focused on freedom, opportunity, and security.”

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