"This is the president of law and order," Lara Trump just said, minutes after the crowded cheered for extrajudicial punishment https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1274476191785730049
Eric Trump refers to #BlackLivesMatter protesters as "animals"
Sad
Lots of space left inside the arena in Tulsa where Trump is set to deliver a speech in less than half an hour
Mike Pence is out here just straight up pretending that the unemployment rate isn't over 13 percent
and then what happened
Pence just packed multiple lies into one claim in saying that "before we had a single coronavirus case in the US, President Trump closed down all travel from China."

Travel restrictions came after Covid cases were reported in the country & did not ban "all travel" from China.
Shot, chaser
PENCE: "We will always put the health of America first."

Attendees literally had to sign a waiver stipulating they wouldn't hold the Trump campaign responsible if they contracted Covid at this rally.
JOHN ROBERTS: "The BOK Center is about two-thirds full."

JESSE WATTERS: "Looks packed and definitely sounds packed."
Trump begins his speech in Tulsa by goading his audience into booing "the fake news" for pointing out that going to this rally amid a pandemic is risky
With the economy in ruins, Trump's top-line first term accomplishment is now how many judges he's appointed
Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014
Trump conflates peaceful protesters with "thugs." He then pivots to bashing and mocking CNN.
"Minnianapolis" -- Trump still can't say Minneapolis
Trump on Seattle: "It's probably better for us to just watch that disaster." (He still has no concept that he's supposed to be president of all the states, not just states that support him.)
"Cove-ed"
Trump on coronavirus, which has now killed 121,000 Americans: "I have done a phenomenal job on it."
"Here's the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you're gonna find more people, you're gonna find more cases. So I said to my people, 'slow the testing down please!'" -- Trump
Here's Trump downplaying the coronavirus as "sniffles"
Good seats are available
Trump defends the Confederacy: "The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments. Our beautiful monuments."
Trump calls the coronavirus "Kung flu" and then says, "many call it a flu." (Nobody with a working brain says that.)
"The stage was higher than this one ... I'm weather leather-bottom shoes ... it was like an ice-skating rink" -- Trump whines at length about the media pointing out the obvious and noting that he had a hard time walking down a ramp last weekend at West Point
"I said, 'general, there's no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, general. I have no railing.' It's true! ... I didn't really want to grab him ... I can't fall with the fake news watching" -- Trump is still whining about coverage of his ramp incident
Here's Trump mocking himself for the way he walked down a ramp at West Point last weekend. He's been talking about this for about 6 or 7 minutes now.
"I don't want to get water on the tie" -- Trump is now whining that people noticed that he seemed to have a hard time drinking water out of a glass at West Point last weekend. He then drinks water with one hand to prove he can do it.
Trump admits that he shook hands with people at West Point last weekend, even though health experts say it's not a smart thing to do during a pandemic
"We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag you go to jail for one year ... if somebody wants to burn the American flag and stomp on it, but just burn it, they go to jail for one year" -- Trump
Trump pleads with Jay Inslee to ask him to bring in the military to crush protests in Seattle
Trump claims that if Biden gets elected, "money itself will be worthless" 😂
wut
"Our people are not nearly as violent, but if they ever were, it would be a terrible day for the other side. Because I know our people." -- Trump
While his audience sits in awkward silence, Trump brags about how he made the call to install new TVs in Air Force One
"Don't you understand, you dumb son of a bitch" -- I challenge you to try and make sense of this Trump rant
We've arrived at the doing Putin's bidding part of Trump's speech
Trump refers to 2020 as "two-twenty"
"They get rid of the worst scum on earth" -- Trump hails ICE for brutalizing people
Trump claims that pro-choice Democrats want to legalize "afterbirth execution." (That sort of thing is called murder.)
"I look better than them. Much more handsome. Got better hair than they do. I got nicer properties, I got nicer houses, I got nicer apartment, I got nicer everything." -- Trump compares himself to the "elite." #populism
Trump refers to Ilhan Omar as "Eehan"
"I think we're going to have a big victory in the state of Minnesota, because they have had it" -- a poll released yesterday found Biden up by 16 points in Minnesota https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/minnesota/
Trump on the media: "They want the stock market to go down, even if it costs them money. And they don't even know why. You know what? They're smart, and they're vicious. But they don't know why. I'm telling you -- they don't know why." #wut
"We saved million of lives. And now it's time to open up, get back to work." -- Trump on coronavirus
Trump has now been speaking in Tulsa for more than 90 minutes
Trump shits on blue cities: "The murder rate in Baltimore and Detroit is higher than El Salvador, Guatemala, or even Afghanistan. How are they doing, the Democrats running those cities? Your whole country will be like that."
Trump, who has repeatedly proposed cuts to safety net programs & health care coverage, packs multiple lies into a single statement by saying, "We will protect Medicare & Social Security for our great seniors. And we will always protect patients w/ preexisting conditions, always."
Trump on recent protests across the country: "We will defend ... the right to keep and bear arms. And when you see those lunatics all over the streets, it's damn nice to have arms."
With the economy in ruins and a pandemic ravaging the country, Trump has dropped the "keep America great" line and is back to closing his speeches with a vow to "make America great again."

His speech in Tulsa is in the books.
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