Donald Trump Celebrates Columbus Day With Unhinged Murder Rant
By: Martha McHardy (The Daily Beast)
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The president unleashed a furious attack on the Democrat leading in the polls as Republicans scramble to hold on to a crucial Senate seat.
By Martha McHardyUpdated Oct 12, 2026 2:27PM EDT
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President Donald Trump marked Columbus Day with a furious Truth Social attack on North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate and former Gov. Roy Cooper.
In a lengthy post, Trump claimed Cooper had freed 83 murderers during the COVID-19 pandemic, including 51 serving life sentences. He further alleged that 25 went on to commit murder after their release.
"There has never been a Governor with such a bad record on Crime, and there never will be!" Trump wrote.
FactCheck.org reported that 51 inmates serving life sentences were included in a group eligible for parole under a prison settlement, but state officials said they were already eligible for parole and had not been made eligible by the agreement.
Cooper's campaign has also said law enforcement officials and parole officers, rather than Cooper personally, made the release decisions.
Still, Trump compared the controversy to the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican George H.W. Bush's team attacked Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis over a prison furlough program involving convicted murderer Willie Horton.
"Governor Michael Dukakis lost his insurmountable lead in the 1988 Presidential Race because he released Willie Horton, who went on to immediately rape and kill three women. What Former Governor Roy Cooper did is, believe it or not, far more consequential," the 80-year-old president wrote, before declaring: "VOTE FOR MICHAEL WHATLEY TO BE THE NEXT U.S. SENATOR FROM THE GREAT STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA."
Trump's account of the Horton case is false. Horton assaulted a man and raped a woman while on furlough, but he did not murder three women.
The Daily Beast has contacted Cooper's campaign for comment.
North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper is ahead in the polls.
Cooper is challenging Whatley for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, a vocal critic of Trump and several aspects of his administration.
Recent polling has shown Cooper ahead in a state that Trump won in 2024 and that has not voted for a Democratic president since 2008. The RealClearPolitics average covering Sept. 6 to Oct. 10 put him at 49.9 percent, compared with 40.9 percent for Whatley—a nine-point lead for the Democrat.
If Cooper wins, he would be the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina since 2008, but Republicans are working hard to keep that from happening.
With Cooper leading in the polls, Whatley and his allies have made crime a central issue in the race, seeking to undermine the Democrat's moderate image by portraying his record as too soft on public safety.
Trump joined that effort at a September rally in Gastonia, accusing Cooper of making North Carolina notorious for "violent crime." Republican groups have also spent millions on attack ads, including one that falsely linked Cooper to a murder committed in South Carolina.
Cooper has countered by pointing to his record as the state's attorney general, including his work prosecuting criminal cases, and presenting himself as willing to challenge his own party on law enforcement.
His campaign says he opposed defunding the police, worked with Republicans to strengthen bail laws, and partnered with Trump on efforts to combat fentanyl.
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Leaving out his cult members, Trump has no credibility on anything.
desperate maga dipshits will attempt to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the midterms for the next 3 weeks. a former colleague called me this morning to make sure I was still in the maga fold (LoL) and I told him I voted a straight democrat ticket on my mailed/dropbox ballot because trump had broken all his campaign promises and congress was a bunch of fucking wimps. he's worried it'll be much worse than it is now if democrats take the legislature. it's that kind of defective logic. it'll take billions and years to repair the damage done by this century's version of the nazi party, and they will then use that as a cudgel to campaign on in the next general election ...
Wife and I crack up every time we see a commercial of 1 of the republicans running for Congress. The worst thing that he can say about his democrat opponent?
He's a VEGAN!!!!!!!!
Trump giving a false account? Shocking!
It's his positive thinking, if he thinks it's true and says it enough times, it could come true....Mike Mulvaney, sychofant.
If we have lots of positive thoughts about it will he just go away?