Republican nominee claims Harris is threat to democracy in recording of top-dollar fundraiser in Colorado in August

Donald Trump unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade about undocumented immigrants and predicted that this ā€œcould be the last election we ever haveā€ if Kamala Harris wins during a private fundraising dinner this summer.

The Guardian obtained a 12-minute recording of a speech that the Republican presidential nominee gave at a dinner on 10 August in Aspen, Colorado, where attendees were required to donate anywhere from $25,000 to $500,000 a couple.

Trump devoted most of his address to border security and immigration, recycling xenophobic claims now familiar from his rallies. ā€œRadical leftwing lunaticsā€ want people to come in from prisons,Ā mental institutionsĀ and insane asylums, he asserted without evidence, adding that the US was harbouring ā€œa record number of terroristsā€.


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  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    Because you wanted to learn about it, so you did.

    Donald Trump doesnā€™t want to learn about anything that doesnā€™t affect him personally, so he wonā€™t put in the effort to educate himself. Also his narcissism wonā€™t let him believe that thereā€™s anything he isnā€™t already the most knowledgeable person about.

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      I agree he doesnt care to learn, but I also wonder if thatā€™s because he finds it so difficult.

      He ainā€™t bright.

      • dnick@sh.itjust.works
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        Quite likely one feeding the other. He must have learned long ago that heā€™ll never be able to compete in brains, but money, threats and bravado will get someone like him a lot farther than heā€™d get otherwise. In the meantime, he may have accidentally convinced himself that his level of knowledge actually is big and beautiful and anyone who claims to know more is just bullshitting like he is.