At the close of yesterday’s Youngstown, Ohio rally on behalf of Senate candidate J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump concluded by reciting a combination of some true and other ridiculously false narratives, to a melody being played over the loudspeakers that the QAnon followers in the crowd reportedly raised their fingers to the heavens over. Trump’s words were:
“We are a nation that allowed Russia to devastate a country, Ukraine, killing hundreds of thousands of people and it will only get worse. It would never happen with me as your Commander-in-Chief and for four long years it didn’t happen; and China with Taiwan is next. We are a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposition political party like never ever before. We’ve got a Federal Bureau of Investigation that won’t allow bad election- changing facts to be presented to the public; that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation when they know it wasn’t; and a Department of Justice that refuses to investigate when egregious acts of voting irregularities and fraud; and we have a President who is cognitively impaired and in no condition to lead our country, which may end up in World War III. We’re a nation that no longer has a free press and has no fair press any longer. Fake news is all you get, and they are truly the enemy of the people. We are a nation where free speech is no longer allowed, where crime is rampant like never before, where the economy has been collapsing, where more people died of COVID in 2021 than in 2020. We are a nation that is allowing Iran to build a massive nuclear weapon and China to use the trillions of dollars it has taken from us to build a military to rival our own. And just two years ago we had Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, and all of the rest in check. They weren’t going to do a thing against us and everyone knows it. They respected the United States and they respected America….
