(Full title: Trump regaled donors with jokes about
rallygoer killed by would-be assassin: leaked audio)
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Okay. I'm probably going to regret this, but I can't just
post this article without it begging this question from,
oh, ANYeffing person who's GOP inclined, here, who might
offer me their enlightenment on it...?
The question is, after you've read this article, had
those visuals of DJT saying these things play in your
mind...*how, exactly, IS IT that you find yourself
identifying with such a vile human being as this, who
could say such things about these people?* Are these
really and truly reflections of *your own sensibilities*
and quality of character? If you were in some gathering
or meeting and someone was up at the podium, saying such
things...would you actually be laughing along with the
crowd? Or would you walk out?
And if you'd walk out...HOW can you then vote to elect
someone to hold sway over the entire American public,
when this is how he obviously devalues human beings?
HOW?
No, I don't really expect answers...but I couldn't not
ask...
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Donald Trump mocked the widow of his supporter killed by
a would-be assassin's bullet at one of his rallies,
according to a leaked audio recording of him speaking to
donors in Colorado.
The former president's dinner guests erupted in laughter
as he quipped about the woman grieving her slain husband
after he presented her with a check, according to the
recording, and he suggested that some of the donors'
wives would gladly trade their lives for money, reported
The Guardian.
“So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the
woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the
check," Trump told the appreciative audience. "We handed
her the check – and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I
appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now,
I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the
same.”
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Trump cracked a similar joke about the wife of 50-year-
old Corey Comperatore at an Aug. 1 rally in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, and the crowd at both events laughed in
appreciation.
“I know at least four couples," Trump said as donors
roared. "There are four couples, Gov. [Greg Abbott], that
I know and you’re not one of them. At least four couples
here would have been thrilled, actually.”
Trump said members of his Mar-a-Lago resort asked to make
contributions to the families of Comperatore, a retired
firefighter who was fatally shot, and two other
supporters who were wounded by 20-year-old gunman Thomas
Crooks at the July 13 event in Butler.
“I said absolutely and they gave me a check for a million
dollars – that’s a lot of money," Trump said. "Maybe even
more impressively we put out a GoFundMe and we raised
more than $6 million for the group that got hurt, which
is essentially three people.”
Trump flew to Aspen on a private jet once owned by the
late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to an Aug. 10
fundraiser hosted by investors and art collectors John
and Amy Phelan, where he mingled with casino mogul Steve
Wynn, billionaire businessman Thomas Peterffy, Texas
governor Greg Abbott, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep.
Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and former Colorado senator Cory
Gardner.
“Look, we gotta win and if we don’t win this country’s
going to hell,” Trump said. “You know, there’s an
expression, this could be the last election we ever have
and it’s an expression that I really believe, and I
believe that this could be the last election we ever
have.”
“I’m telling you we have a radical left person [vice
president Kamala Harris] that’s going be president – if
she wins it’s going to be a disaster – she wants to be
president very badly," he added. Thank God she’s supposed
to be horrible at debating, although she’s nasty, and
she’s supposed to be really bad at interviews. She can’t
do an interview.”
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