Other Than That, Mr. Trump, How Did You Like the Speech?
For those of us who relish the few instances (in the real world), where justice is done (short of hanging), and a bullet truly hits its mark, Joe Biden’s speech commemorating the first anniversary of the attack on the US Capitol building, may just have provided that.
But, while the speech has certainly earned the appreciation and admiration of the mass media and Democratic Party, what seems to me to be sorely missing, are any first-hand accounts of the reaction of one particular individual, who was probably also watching: former President Donald Trump.
Whatever doubts, disappointments and long-standing issues we have all had with regards to our current President, this one particular speech, after what has seemed to be a virtual free ride granted to the forces of fascism and autocracy afoot in this nation, moving stealthfully towards a certain overthrow of the rule of law, governing fair and free elections… hit the bulls-eye, as few have done before.
Listen:
”We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie.
And here is the truth: The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He’s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interests as more important than his country’s interests and America’s interests, and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution.
He can’t accept he lost, even though that’s what 93 United States senators, his own Attorney General, his own Vice President, governors and state officials in every battleground state have all said: He lost.”
And later:
“Every legal challenge questioning the results in every court in this country that could have been made was made and was rejected — often rejected by Republican-appointed judges, including judges appointed by the former president himself, from state courts to the United States Supreme Court.
Recounts were undertaken in state after state. Georgia — Georgia counted its results three times, with one recount by hand.
Phony partisan audits were undertaken long after the election in several states. None changed the results. And in some of them, the irony is the margin of victory actually grew slightly.
So, let’s speak plainly about what happened in 2020. Even before the first ballot was cast, the former president
was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. He built his lie over months. It wasn’t based on any facts. He was just looking for an excuse — a pretext — to cover for the truth.
He’s not just a former president. He’s a defeated former president — defeated by a margin of over 7 million of your votes in a full and free and fair election.
There is simply zero proof the election results were inaccurate. In fact, in every venue where evidence had to be produced and an oath to tell the truth had to be taken, the former president failed to make his case.”
Now, it’s no secret that Donald Trump doesn’t take criticism well. He’s been known to fly off the handle if you just don’t flatter him. This speech, available on TV, Internet, radio, in newspapers, magazines, etc, delivered in the US Capitol Building, by the person he lost that election to, by seven million votes, laid out in language (to me), unimproveable [sic] upon and with precision and logic, must have “hit the spot” of our erstwhile Commander-in-Chief, as few if any (next to losing the election itself) ever have.
And there really is not a blessed thing he can do about it…
Oh, he can dismiss it in remarks no longer carried by Twitter or Facebook. But, even his attempts to defend himself, thus reassuring his clueless minions, are now consequently critically hampered.
No, I think this was one of our former President’s most acute and severe “narcissistic hurts”. It will endure, fester and bring unrelieved pain and anguish to his most pitiable, bankrupt being.
I just wish we had some video footage, or at least a detailed account of the original event.
I know I’d feel so much better….
