OK, let's go.
Question 4 is about the border, which should be one of Trump's best issues.
Kamala Harris answers first. She talks about the bipartisan border bill that Trump killed, but then she goads him. She says that he keeps saying the same old lines, and then invites people to go to one of his rallies and notice that people are bored and exhausted by the end and leave early. When she said this, it was the only time that I thought, during the debate, that she was saying it just to get under his skin. In rereading the transcripts, she probably did this several time, but boy did it work.
Trump foolishly responds to the remark about rallies rather than immediately addressing immigration, then gets crazier and crazier.
"People don't go to her rallies." "And the people that do go, she's busing them in and paying them..."
It should be pointed out that, again, unless there is some strong evidence to support this assertion [there isn't], these are the ravings of a lunatic.
"Our country is being lost. We're a failing nation. It happened three and a half years ago."
I don't know about you, but I get very tired of these unsupported, over-the-top, extreme descriptions of everything. The worst deal ever. Biden is the worst president. Harris is the worst vice-president. EVER! The worst economy. Millions and millions of criminals. Highest level of criminality. And the exact opposite when describing himself. He does not know how to talk about anything other than to say "I am the very best, and my opponents are the very, very worst. EVER!"
"...allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country."
Where have I already heard that?
"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats."
These remarks have been widely mocked, but it was really a surprise that a candidate for president would repeat a story from Facebook that had already been debunked. Another one of those statements that, if Kamala Harris had said it, would be widely remembered as the stupidest thing she ever said.
"She's destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn't have a chance of success." "Well end up being Venezuela on steroids."
She's really got him going now. He's just improvising apocalyptic phrases. Unhinged.
David Muir, one of the moderators, points out that the city manager says the stories of immigrants eating pets are false.
"Well I've seen people on television."
Good god man. People are watching. Get a grip. More mocking on social media for this one.
Kamala goads him again by noting that Republicans are endorsing her, and Trump's former staff have said that he is unfit for office. Trump responds, in part: "I got more votes than any Republican in history by far."
That was when you lost by 7 million votes, right? Right, OK.
Next question: How is deporting 11 million immigrants going to work? Walk us through this.
He does not answer the question, even a little.
"They allowed criminals, Many, many millions of criminals."
Many, many millions...
"Do you know that crime in Venezuela and crime in countries all over the world is way down? And do you know why? Because they've taken criminals off the streets, and they've given them to her to put on our streets."
Wait a second. Crime is down all over the world because criminals from countries all over the world have shipped their criminals to the United States? Does this sound at all possible? It sounds like lunacy to me.
David Muir points out that the FBI says that violent crime is down.
"The FBI --- they were defrauding statements."
Never mind the strange use of "defrauding." Who are you going to believe: the FBI, or the most prolific, well-documented liar in all of history?
Harris lists some of the legal cases against Trump.
"...it's called weaponization. Never happened before in this country." "They're fake cases."
Harris points out that Trump has actually promised to weaponize the Justice Department to go after his political enemies, if he is elected.
Trump, speaking out of turn: "This is the one that weaponized. Not me. She weaponized. I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they say about me."
This is a lie, and a disqualifying one. You don't say things like that about your opponent without some good evidence. The shooter was a Republican. There is no evidence he was inspired by Harris or by Democrats. Meanwhile, Trump has used very incendiary language over and over, not caring a bit that it may (and sometimes does) inspire violence. This is nuts.
I will end my post, again, because it is long enough. I am only about halfway through the transcript of the debate, and Trump got crazier as the evening went on, but I suspect I will write just two more of these.
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