Even chained to his teleprompter, Donald Trump was unable to resist as he reacted to the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment ruling.
After talking and distorting the Supreme Court ruling, Trump came up with the bizarre claim that he needed presidential immunity to kill terrorists.
Trump also falsely claimed to have killed the two biggest terrorists in history:
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Trump is in such mental decline that he is reading his reaction to the SCOTUS decision on a TelePrompTer, and Trump lies and claims that he killed the two biggest terrorists in history, that it wasn’t Trump, but Obama who got Bin Laden. pic.twitter.com/m5RgxugDHy
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 4, 2024
It was clear that Trump was reading these heavily scripted remarks from a teleprompter, but that didn’t stop him from claiming that all prosecutions against him were brought forth by a cabal of Trump haters with Biden as the mastermind.
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Trump loses his mind, and now he’s veering into conspiracy theories, “he’s bad, he’s bad,” The judges in these cases hate Trump. Aside from the fact that we have maybe one or two that I think might be right… I mean, these people have tremendous hatred.” pic.twitter.com/XJlahylR9s
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 4, 2024
The sad part is that his campaign tried to make this teleprompter speech seem spontaneous, but they failed because Trump had the reading voice and posture. When Trump is chained to his teleprompter, his arms are usually stiff at his sides and his voice is monotone, as if he were reading from a script, which is what he was doing.
It was reported Monday morning that the Trump campaign knows he is in cognitive decline and is trying to hide this decline from the American people.
Trump essentially gave a campaign speech and reacted minimally to the Supreme Court case.
This is not the Donald Trump of eight years ago. The former president is fading fast, and his campaign may not have enough tricks to hide it.
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