Uh oh - he's not using the teleprompter

 
The fact checkers must be working their fingers to the bone...... his speech is directed to his extremist base only.  He will not win any new supporters with this.

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CNN
Updated 4:41 PM ET, Mon August 24, 2020

Trump uses dark message to kick off RNC despite aides' claims of optimism


(CNN) President Donald Trump launched his convention week Monday with a bitter tirade against his rivals from four years ago and dark and unfounded warnings that voter fraud could deprive him of a second term.

Speaking from Charlotte moments after he was formally renominated as the Republican Party standard-bearer, Trump delivered a screed that predicted a legally contested election in November and complained that Democrats were exploiting the coronavirus pandemic -- still raging in the United States -- to undermine his re-election.

"What they're doing is using Covid to steal an election.  They're using Covid to defraud the American people, all of our people, of a fair and free election," Trump said, without evidence, to applause from GOP delegates, who were gathering in North Carolina to conduct the formal business of the party convention.

It was hardly the optimistic message that Trump's advisers have been relentlessly previewing ahead of this week's renomination festivities. Instead, Trump's speech was indistinguishable from the meandering, grievance-filled appearances he has been making in the lead-up to his scaled-down convention.

He repeated claims that, should rival Joe Biden prevail, the country would be overrun with violence akin to protests seen this summer in Minnesota and Oregon. He warned that Democrats were seeking to take away guns, religion and American energy production. And he raised grave predictions about the November vote, saying there were courts and judges across the country "who will hopefully give us a fair call" in a contested election.

"The only way they can take this election away from us is if it's a rigged election," he intoned, later warning delegates to "be careful" amid what he cast as a Democratic plot to steal the election: "Don't let them take it away from you," he said.

At other points, Trump complained bitterly about North Carolina's Democratic governor, who he said wouldn't allow him to host an in-person convention amid a national health crisis (delegates who did gather in Charlotte underwent a strict testing regime, and were encouraged to wear masks).

And he said he had told China he would "never let them forget what they did" in failing to contain coronavirus, even as he touted his own handling of a pandemic that continues to wreak havoc on Americans' lives.

Trump did tout his record on the economy, proclaiming new trade agreements and improvements in unemployment that occurred before the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the nation.

He also offered, in very broad terms, some plans for a second term, including repeating a pledge to release a list of potential Supreme Court judges should additional vacancies occur on the high court.

But mostly off-script and stirred by what he complained was unfair coverage from the news media, Trump's message did not reflect what both he and his advisers said over the weekend would be a more cheerful counterpoint to what they claimed was a gloomy Democratic convention.

"I think we're going to see something that is going to be very uplifting and positive, that's what I'd like it to be," Trump said in a Saturday interview on Fox News.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/politics/trump-nomination-rnc/index.html
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Watch the irrational idiot if you need to; I prefer to wait for the fact-checkers' results and post-speech analysis from more moderate and stable sources.