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Social media on Wednesday delivered a truth bomb to Linsey Davis, one of the ABC employees who acted as "moderator" during the presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris.
Openly siding with Harris, Davis "corrected" Trump when he objected to the Harris abortion ideology that apparently includes leaving babies to die after birth.
Davis claimed that doesn't happen.
But social media responded immediately with confirmation from a prominent Democrat that that's exactly what would happen.
And it even cited Harris' vice presidential pick, Tim Walz, under whose governorship in Minnesota that process was formalized – and then concealed.
The dispute involves possibly life-saving treatment for infants who survive botched abortions.
Trump said, "You can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia — not the current governor, who is doing an excellent job, but the governor before — he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we'll execute it. And that's why I did that, because that predominates, because they're radical. The Democrats are radical. … Her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth is execution — no longer abortion because the baby is born OK, and that's not OK with me."
An NBC fact-checker claimed that statement was wrong.
But the reality is former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, stated, "If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired."
NBC claimed it "debunked" Northam's comments because he was talking about infants with deformities. But it admitted in such scenarios, Northam promised, "The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother."
Further, former White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany posted a link to a report confirming that under Walz, in Minnesota, "Under Gov. Tim Walz, babies born alive in botched abortions were left to die."
Those statistics actually no longer are available, the report confirmed, because Walz then eliminated the requirements to report such situations.
That report explained,
"As Democrats and media outlets accuse former President Donald Trump of dramatizing the Democratic abortion agenda, data from the Minnesota Department of Health shows that at least eight babies who survived abortions in the state were left to die.
"Under a 2015 Minnesota law, the state formerly was required to report whether abortions resulted in the live birth of a baby, what actions were taken to preserve the life of that baby, and whether the baby survived."Those reporting requirements exposed that between Jan. 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2021, physicians performed five abortions that resulted in a baby's live birth.
"No measures were taken to help the first baby, who reportedly had 'fetal anomalies' that resulted 'in death shortly after delivery.' Two of the babies were given 'comfort care measures' as they died. No measures were taken to "preserve life" of the last two babies, who were previable.
"Previous data from the Minnesota Department of Health reveals that physicians have been leaving babies to die after failed abortions for years. In 2020, no babies were reported born alive through botched abortions, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.
"But between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2019, three abortions resulted in born-alive babies who were then allowed to die. The first baby reportedly had 'fetal anomalies' but also had 'residual cardiac activity' for two minutes, yet no efforts were taken to preserve that baby's life, and "the infant did not survive.
"The second baby died while 'comfort care measures' were provided. The third baby was previable and did not receive any attempts to preserve his or her life. It does not appear that any of the babies born alive in botched abortions survived.
"Due to efforts by the state's Democratic governor, who served from 2019 until the present, Minnesota will no longer even keep track of born-alive babies."
A commentary at Twitchy called it the, "Mother of ALL truth bombs about abortion."
It explained, "All Kamala did during the entire debate was get nasty and claim anything and everything that made her look bad didn't happen. And she did so knowing ABC would do nothing to hold her accountable for it."
And there was additional confirmation from legislative testimony of allowing abortion up to the moment of birth.
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Multitudes have questioned how the assassination attempt by the now-dead Thomas Matthew Crooks against President Trump at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, could have happened.
Congress continues to review it, and commentators have insisted the public does not yet know all the facts.
Among the unanswered is how Crooks was able to get onto the roof of a building within the sight line of Trump with a rifle on July 13. He had been spotted by rally goers, yet he was not stopped. Other questions remain today circling around the Secret Service, which in blunt terms failed that day.
The near-catastrophe already has cost the Secret Service chief her job.
But now Melania Trump, whose participation in her husband's 2024 campaigning so far has been limited, is insisting on answers.
A report at the Daily Mail says Melania has released a video raising questions about the role of law enforcement in the events that day.
She calls the attack on her husband a "horrible, distressing experience."
"Now, the silence around it is heavy," she said. "I can't help but wonder why didn't law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech.
"There is definitely more to this story. And we need to uncover the truth."
The Mail report said she was hinting "at a conspiracy" over the events.
"The video ends with a shot promoting her forthcoming memoir 'Melania,' which will be released in October," the report said.
Republicans in Congress already have assembled a task force to investigate the circumstances that developed on that day in July, and the Secret Service "investigation" remains ongoing.
Stunningly, the gunman took shots at Trump from about 150 yards away, from the top of a roof that was near the outdoor rally.
It was in the seconds after the shots that Trump created what has become an iconic photographic image, when he stood up, raised his fist in the air and charged the crowd with "Fight, fight, fight."
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It's well documented that Kamala Harris can change her policy positions just about as fast as she can speak.
In fact, she's earned herself the nickname "Kamala Chameleon" with her abrupt position reversals.
She's already flip-flopped on a fracking ban, on border security, on a single payer health care, and confiscation of "assault" weapons.
Now on social media there's three minutes of Harris "using different phony accents."
The report noted, "Despite spending her childhood in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, what she thinks a southern accent in Georgia, a French accent, and more!"
A commentary at Twitchy described her as the "Fakest faker who every faked a FAKE!"
The report explained "when a politician changes their accent over and over and over …" that's "mockable."
Her position flipflops earlier have made headlines for their stunning rapidity.
JD Vance, GOP nominee President Donald Trump's pick for vice president, explained the new moniker.
He was asked about Trump's comments about Harris "all of a sudden" being black. Her heritage is Jamaican and Indian but recently she appeared at a rally event with a pronounced southern drawl.
"Look all he said that is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She goes to Georgia two days ago. She was raised in Canada. She puts on a fake southern accent. She is everything to everybody and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she's in front of. I think it's totally reasonable for the president to call that out. That's all he did," Vance said.
"She's running as a tough on crime prosecutor even though she implemented an open border policy. She's saying she wants to support the police yet she wanted to defund the police just three years ago. It's totally reasonable to call out the fact that she pretends to be somebody different, depending on the audience she's talking to."
A report at Just the News said Trump's approach to Harris now "has been to cast her as a chameleon who adjusts her professed background, beliefs, and persona to match relevant audiences and whom the voters cannot trust to truthfully represent herself or her campaign."
"The contrast could not be more stark," Trump said at a recent rally. "On the one hand, you have a radical left puppet candidate who is fake, fake, fake, and on the other hand, You have a president who will fight, fight for America."
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A leading data expert has issued a "bone-chilling" warning after reviewing the numbers and causes of death across America since the COVID-19 pandemic and the mRNA shots – now proven to have many and dangerous side effects – hit Americans.
A report at Slay News explains it is John Beaudoin, a renowned statistician, who found an explosive surge in deaths from fatal kidney conditions following the advent of mRNA treatments.
The report said, "Beaudoin calculated that there have been 155,000 excess deaths caused by acute kidney injury (AKI) since late 2020 in the United States alone."
He looked at government numbers for a variety of factors, including state reports on excess deaths.
"As Beaudoin explains in a new interview, excess death is the figure above the expected baseline, not the total, meaning an extra 155k Americans died from AKI," the report said.
While the death toll had been documented to have had no significant changes for years, suddenly they surged, 200% above normal, for 2021. And they were up 300% in 2022.
Then, in 2023, they continued to surge "alarmingly."
Beaudoin explained, in the report, his "investigations prove that only COVID mRNA shots, and possibly COVID-19 hospital protocols, could be responsible for the staggering excess deaths from kidney failure," the report said.
"There are more life years lost to acute renal failure alone than COVID, than polio, than smallpox … than anything in the past 100 years in the United States, except for World War II," he said.
The report noted fellow data expert Ed Dowd confirmed the trend.
"Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) database, Dowd estimates 153K excess deaths nationwide from acute kidney injury alone over the last few years."
Previous studies have suggested deaths "from all causes" actually are up significantly among those who were given the mRNA treatment.
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Tensions are heating up in the South China Sea, as Chinese and Philippine ships once again collide in the long-disputed waters.
Chinese vessels collided with Philippine coast guard ships near the disputed atoll of Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands. The Chinese were quick to accuse the Philippines of crashing their vessel into them deliberately.
Chinese Coast Guard spokesperson Gan Yu said in a statement the Philippines ignored several warnings, and caused the collision by dangerously ramming Chinese law enforcement.
"The Philippine side is entirely responsible for the collision. We warn the Philippine side to immediately stop its infringement and provocation, otherwise, it will bear all the consequences arising from that," Gan said.
China Daily reported the Philippines then engaged in a second incident a few hours later, the CCG further accused the Philippines of seriously infringing on China's sovereignty and undermining regional peace in a separate statement.
"We sternly warn the Philippine side to immediately cease its infringing provocations. Otherwise, it will bear all the consequences arising from such actions," Gan said.
Gan then released another statement saying the CCG operated by laws and regulations.
cement saying the CCG operated by laws and regulations.
"China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands, including Xianbin and Ren'ai reefs, and their adjacent waters. The China Coast Guard will continue to carry out law enforcement activities in the waters under China's jurisdiction under the law, resolutely thwart any infringements and provocations, and safeguard national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests," Gan said.
However, Philippine officials have shot back at the accusations with footage of the collision which shows the Chinese intentionally ramming the ships. According to Philippine news outlet GMA News Online, the National Task Force for the West Philippines Sea has accused China of dangerous maneuvers that caused damage to two Philippine coast guard ships.
"This morning, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessels BRP Bagacay (MRRV-4410) and BRP Cape Engaño (MRRV-4411) encountered unlawful and aggressive maneuvers from Chinese Coast Guard vessels while en route to Patag and Lawak Islands in the West Philippine Sea. These dangerous maneuvers resulted in collisions, causing structural damage to both PCG vessels," the National Task Force for the West Philippines Sea said.
The shoal is located 75 nautical miles off Palawan and is within the Philippines' 200–nautical–mile exclusive economic zone. The waters are also under dispute with Taiwan and Vietnam.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said in a statement the incident was caused by the Philippines, and China was only responding to the perceived infringements.
"I made clear China's position on the Philippine Coast Guard vessels' intrusion into the adjacent waters of Xianbin Jiao of China's Nansha Qundao. What China did was to respond to the Philippines' infringement activities. We took those actions to defend our territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests. They are just, lawful, and beyond reproach," Mao said.
Mao then accused the United States of using the mutual defense agreement with the Philippines, as an excuse to violate China's sovereignty. Mao added the U.S. has no position to interfere with issues between China and the Philippines.
"The U..S is not a party to the issue of the South China Sea and is in no position to interfere in the maritime issues between China and the Philippines. Still less, the U.S. should not use the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty to justify the violation of China's sovereignty, rights, and interests in the South China Sea. The U.S. needs to stop stoking confrontation in the South China Sea, and stop destabilizing the region and escalating the tensions in the region," Mao said.
In a statement released from the U.S. Department of State, officials called the actions dangerous, reckless, and deliberate.
"The United States stands with its ally the Philippines and condemns the dangerous actions by the People's Republic of China (PRC) against lawful Philippine maritime operations in the South China Sea on August 19. PRC ships employed reckless maneuvers, deliberately colliding with two Philippine Coast Guard ships, causing structural damage and jeopardizing the safety of the crew onboard," the statement reads.
The statement goes on to call China's claims to the disputed area unlawful and insisted China adhere to international laws.
"These actions are the latest examples of the PRC using dangerous and escalatory measures to enforce its expansive and unlawful South China Sea maritime claims. The United States calls upon the PRC to abide by international law and desist from its dangerous and destabilizing conduct," the statement continues.
U.S. officials also reminded the Chinese of the long-standing treaty between the U.S. and the Philippines, which is 73 years old.
"The United States reaffirms that Article IV of the 1951 U.S.–Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty extends to armed attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels, or aircraft – including those of its Coast Guard – anywhere in the South China Sea," the statement said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree offering a "haven" to anyone who wants to escape Western liberal ideals, according to a report from Russian media outlet Tass.
According to the decree, foreigners will be provided assistance to gain a temporary 3-month visa, if they reject the "neoliberal ideals" of their home country and want to make a move to Russia "where traditional values reign supreme."
Foreign nationals will be able to apply for temporary residence in Russia, and will not be required to confirm their knowledge of the Russian language, history, or basic laws. The Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to start issuing visas as early as September.
Over the years, Putin has often criticized "Western globalist elites" for planting hatred and Russophobia.
"Ideology of superiority is disgusting, criminal, and deathly in its very nature. However, the Western global elites still speak about their exclusiveness, clash people against each other, and split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coup d'etats, plant hatred, russophobia," Putin said during his Victory Day speech in 2023.
In March 2024, Putin stated during an interview the Western elites want to "freeze the status quo."
"There is a very strong desire in Western elites to freeze the status quo, the unjust state of affairs in international affairs. They are used to filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money for centuries. But they must realize that the vampire's ball is coming to an end," Putin said.
According to a 2016 report from the Hoover Institute, the "Western elites" are made up of several groups – lawmakers (which at the time of publication included the Clintons and the Obamas), unelected bureaucrats, top military officers, and the mega-wealthy.
"They include not just our elected legislators, governors, and president, but also the unelected (and unaccountable) members of the vast government archipelago–cabinet officers, bureaucratic grandees, top military officers, and regulators. Beyond these politicos, the Western elite is comprised, too, of the transnational mega-wealthy, who have been enriched by globalization, especially international finance, investments, and technologies that lubricate worldwide dissemination of capital and communications," the report states.
Former President Donald Trump called out globalist elite and agitator George Soros during a rally, for funding protests on university and college campuses.
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JERUSALEM – With the threat of Iranian and Hezbollah reprisals hanging over the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, there were mixed signals about the talks' success or failure Monday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region to try and shepherd the warring parties to some kind of halt.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Blinken for a three-hour meeting in Jerusalem – described as "positive" and "held in a good atmosphere," and which concluded with the premier releasing a statement publicly backing the latest U.S. "bridging proposal" that was presented to Israel and conveyed to Hamas at the end of talks in Doha last week. The bridging proposal is an attempt to manage the apparently wide divergence of expectations between Hamas and Israel – and in such a way, if possible, that the talks don't completely collapse.
Initial reports on Sunday suggested Netanyahu was leery of the chances of a breakthrough, his pessimism – according to cabinet ministers with knowledge of the matter – stemming from his rejection of the notion the IDF should leave the Philadelphi Corridor. This stretch of land, which crosses the Gaza-Egypt border has been revealed to be the main route through which Hamas smuggled men, weapons, and materiel to their mafia-like stronghold.
This is one of the key sticking points, and one for which Netanyahu does not feel he wants to allow much wiggle room.
In addition to Hamas, negotiators must also consider Egypt, whose pride has been bruised and battered as the scale of the operation – and the necessary coordination – between it and Hamas has been laid bare, following Israel's continued presence in and around Rafah. Indeed, the IDF blew up a mile-long tunnel Monday as it continues to dismantle Hamas' terrorism infrastructure.
On Sunday evening, Hamas released an official statement rejecting the terms of a hostage release-ceasefire deal, effectively blaming Netanyahu for putting up obstacles to reaching a deal.
For his part, Blinken, who earlier in the day met with Israel's President Isaac Herzog, said he had come on President Biden's instructions to get the deal to the line and ultimately over it, in what might be the last chance to get the hostages home.
Blinken meets Israel's President Isaac Herzog
Blinken's opinions on what the Biden administration has been doing for the last 10 months, seemingly without urgency or direction in this matter – particularly when there are known to be U.S. citizens among the hostages – was not recorded.
Does either side want the talks to succeed?
The answer to that question depends upon whom you ask. Critics of Netanyahu – and there are many – from political opponents, large swathes of the hostage families, pundits and others – argue he is trying to engineer a way for the talks to fail. They have accused him of putting the desire to return the hostages – of whom there are still 115 in captivity – home, at the expense of continuing a war whose stated aim of "destroying Hamas" seems amorphous.
He has been accused of letting the situation drift, using his preferred tactic of not making concrete decisions to keep his options open, as well as playing fast and loose with the seniority of the diplomatic teams he has sent to negotiate on Israel's behalf. His Hamas critics would point to the fact he ordered the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran as evidence of his unseriousness, too.
On the flip side, there is Hamas. Among all the talk of teetering negotiations, it must not be forgotten what these Gazan gangsters perpetrated on Oct. 7 to start this war. They carried out a pogrom so twisted and brutal and catalyzed by an orgiastic sense of glee, that it deliberately invited the response they hoped to get from Israel.
Yahya Sinwar's hope was to draw Iran and its proxies, particularly Hezbollah, into a regional war where they would face off directly against Israel, with the odds potentially stacked in their favor. He might still get his wish, as Hezbollah plays semantic games about not wanting an expected attack on Israel to happen while there is still a glimmer of hope for the ceasefire negotiations.
If the talks do indeed break down, the expectation of Iranian and Hezbollah retaliation for the targeted killings on their respective home soils – despite the prospect of potentially spilling out of control – will rise exponentially.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced a team of close associates to smooth his transition into the White House, presuming his campaign defeats the word salad-unleashing leftist Kamala Harris in the November election.
The team members include co-chairs Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick, as well as honorary chairs Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump.
McMahon is the former chief of the WWE and earlier was in Trump's first administration as administrator of the SBA.
Lutnick is the billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial company.
Vance is his pick for VP and Donald Jr. and Eric are family members who helped during his first term.
"The 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again is a forward-looking agenda that will deliver safety, prosperity, and freedom for the American people. My administration will deliver on these bold promises," Trump said in a statement.
He added, 'We will restore strength, competence, and common sense to the Oval Office. I have absolute confidence the Trump-Vance Administration will be ready to govern effectively on Day One."
A poll released on Friday noted that independents, that group that almost always determines an election winner, were choosing Trump 49%-40% over Kamala Harris as earlier voting starts in multiple states in just a few weeks.
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In a lengthy conversation with two of the most influential people in the world Monday night, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sounded the alarm to former President Donald Trump about a potential Kamala Harris victory in the 2024 presidential race, saying, "I think we're in massive trouble with a Kamala administration."
"It's essential that you win for the good of this country and that's understating my position," Musk told Trump during the event on X, which is owned by Musk.
The pair discussed some of the hottest topics plaguing the nation, including the border disaster, the financial pain caused by inflation and an anemic economy, and what would happen to America should Democrats win the White House.
"You are the path to prosperity, and Kamala is the opposite," Musk told Trump. "I'm just trying to tell people my honest opinion."
America is at a fork in the road … We're at a fork in the road in the destiny of civilization and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you're the right path. … We're in deep trouble if it goes the other way."
Musk summarized what Americans are longing for, saying, "We want safe and clean cities we want secure borders, we want sensible government spending … stop the lawfare and, how are those even right-wing positions? Those are just common sense."
Trump hammered on Kamala Harris and her political track record "destroying" California.
"It's almost not livable there," the former president noted. "She was involved in the destruction of San Francisco and California and she'll be involved in the destruction of America if elected."
"We have a defective government, these are defective people, and they shouldn't be running it."
"He's incompetent and she's incompetent," Trump said of Joe Biden and Harris. "I think she's more incompetent than he is, and that's saying something because he's not too good."
Run for the border
Both Musk and Trump spent a large portion of the two-hour event focusing on the problems the Biden-Harris administration has caused at the border.
"Crime all over the world is down, and wait till you see the numbers we have," Trump said, noting leaders across the globe are sending their worst citizens to America.
"This is a migrant crime," and the former commander-in-chief said he was considering changing his catchphrase of "Biden Migrant Crime" to "Kamala Migrant Crime."
"These are rough people. These are criminals that make our criminals look like nice people."
Trump said Kamala is "such a liar because she was called the border czar and she never even went there."
"People can't allow them to get away with their disinformation campaign … She was totally in charge. [Biden] didn't even know what was going on. He wouldn't know the difference."
Musk explained that he had visited the U.S. southern border and said: "It looks like a 'World War Z' zombie apocalypse at times."
"I saw for myself in Texas. It's real. I'm seeing this in real-time," he said, wondering to himself, "Is this made up or real?"
"The people that I saw did not look friendly."
"This is a fundamentally existential issue for the United States," Musk continued. "I'm not sure we have a country at that point."
As far as where the migrants are coming from, Musk said: "It's earth, the rest of earth. It would only take a few percent of the rest of earth to overwhelm the U.S. … It's just not possible for there United States to absorb everyone from earth."
Trump promised: "We're gonna have the largest deportation in history, otherwise we're not gonna have a country."
The REAL warming problem
"The biggest threat is not global warming," said Trump. "The biggest threat is nuclear warming."
"This is no longer army tanks shooting at each other. It's a level of destruction and power that nobody's ever seen before."
"We have to not allow anything to happen with stupid people like Biden. … Biden had a low I.Q. 30 years ago, but he might not even have an I.Q. at all right now. there's nothing on the board that goes that low."
"We have an administration that made [the possibility of nuclear war] more prevalent. The words that he was using, the stupid threats coming from a stupid face."
Trump said he had a "good relationship" with Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who informed Trump the communist dictator had "a red button on his desk" to launch nuclear missiles.
Trump quipped: "I said I have a red button on my desk too, and my red button works!"
"If you have a smart president, we are not in danger from those countries," he added.
The American exodus
Musk discussed skyrocketing prices for goods and services that are causing severe financial pain for millions of Americans, indicating, "Inflation is just a form of taxation."
"Inflation comes from government overspending because the government checks never bounce. … We need to reduce our government spending … and we need to live within our means."
He said if states "risk bankruptcy and they're not getting bailed out by the federal government, that's the only thing that will make them change."
"So many of these governors have so many people leaving their states, they should get U-Haul Salesman of the Year."
Trump agreed, saying, "It's a disaster with inflation."
"Today, [Americans] are using all their money and borrowing money just to live. … "This stupid administration allowed this to happen. Do you think Biden could do this interview? Do you think Kamala could to his interview?
"No, they could not," Musk replied.
Back to Butler
Trump announced he would be going back to Butler, the Pennsylvania town where he was nearly assassinated on July 13, with his next visit expected in October.
"I think I'll probably start by saying, 'As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted," Trump clowned.
Regarding the chart on illegal immigration he was looking at when he was struck in the ear by a bullet, Trump said half-jokingly: "Illegal immigration saved my life."
"It's very much, I say an action of God," Trump said his head turning at the precise moment to avoid being killed. "It's a miracle and I'm honored by it."
"It was a miracle, if I hadn't turned my head, I wouldn't be talking to you right now," Trump told Musk, who replied: "From a different realm," perhaps.
"Your actions in the heat of fire," Musk continued, "you can't fake bravery under such circumstances. A lot of people admire your courage under fire there."
Trump said: "I'm gonna sleep with that chart always, that chart was very important for several reasons."
The conversation was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, but was delayed for at least 45 minutes, with Musk saying a large Distributed Denial of Service attack on his platform prevented users from accessing his talk with Trump on time.
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Even after leftist 'fact-checkers' have admitted his claims about Trump's 'very fine people' comment are all wrong
Along with the other failures of his administration – an inflation-ridden economy, an open southern border, and the national security threat that involves, his transgender and abortion ideologies – Joe Biden is handing down his "Charlottesville lie" to Kamala Harris, freshly picked by the Democrat party's elite as their candidate for 2024.
In a Harris-promoting email dispatched from a joebiden.com return address on Monday, Biden wrote, "Today we mark seven years since white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia. The hate summoned on that day is forever etched in my memory."
He cited the violence from a confrontation between protesters objecting to sanitizing American history and the leftists who planned it and said, "In that darkest of moments, a stunned nation looked to Donald Trump. And do you remember what he said? 'There were very fine people on both sides.'"
He then handed it off to Harris, stating, "We can't allow hate to be given safe harbor on our shores. We can't let the MAGA movement succeed at ripping away our freedoms and destroying our democracy. I know that Kamala and Tim can finish the job we started together."
But Biden's claim about what Trump said is a lie.
Trump said:
But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did — you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay good. Are we gonna take down the statue? Cause he was a major slaveowner. Now are we gonna take down his statue? So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people — and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits, and with the helmets, and the baseball bats, you got a lot of bad people in the other group too.
Even the leftists in the so-called "fact check" industry agreed.
But actually, Biden has repeated that lie many, many times.
One of the more recent times was during the Republican National Convention just weeks ago and Biden was being interviewed.
For no apparent reason, he chose to repeat the Trump-is-like-Hitler.
LESTER HOLT: "You were in – in Delaware when this happened. What was your first reaction?"
JOE BIDEN: "My first reaction was, 'My God. This is – look, there's so much violence now and the way we talk about it. I mean, the whole notion that there is this – there's – there's no place at all for violence in politics in America. None. Zero. And – we've reached a point where it's – it's become too commonplace, not assassinations, but to talk about it.
"For example, you know, the January 6th – you know, the attack on the Capitol, the – I – I – Lester, I got in this race early on in 2020 – for the 2020 race. I wasn't gonna run again because I'd lost my son. I didn't – you know? And – until I watched what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"Those folks coming out of the woods with torches, carrying swastikas, singing the same Nazi bile that was accompanied by this Ku Klux Klan, and a young woman was killed. And – and it was a bystander. And – the president – then president was asked, 'What do you think?' He said, 'The very fine people on both sides.' Not fine people on both sides. No excuse. Zero."
Biden also had his "Charlottesville lie" in his acceptance address when the Democrats officially made him their presidential nominee in 2020.
Commentator Larry Elder addressed the fact that Biden won't let the lie die.
"In March, President Joe Biden, in Brussels, Belgium, repeated the lie. At a press conference, ostensibly about Ukraine, Biden told the world that Trump's alleged racist response to Charlottesville inspired Biden to enter the 2020 presidential race: 'I had no intention of running for president again, and – until I saw those folks coming out of the fields in Virginia carrying torches and carrying Nazi banners and singing the same vile rhyme that they used in Germany in the early '20s or '30s. …,'" Elder wrote.
Harris, herself even has used the lie.
During the 2020 campaign, WND reported, "Among numerous false statements by Kamala Harris in the vice presidential debate Wednesday was the oft-repeated and easily refuted 'Charlottesville lie' that Joe Biden says was the catalyst for his decision to run for president."
Her false claim was that regarding a clash over a Robert E. Lee monument Trump called neo-Nazis and other white supremacists "fine people."