Trump to CPAC: We Will Stop Left Wing Cancel Culture

Former President Donald Trump during a keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas Sunday vowed to "secure our borders, stop left-wing cancel culture, restore fair elections," and "make America great again."

Former President Donald Trump during a keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas Sunday vowed to “secure our borders, stop left-wing cancel culture, restore fair elections,” and “make America great again.”

“Joe Biden has brought this country to the brink of ruin,” Trump told a packed crowd at the three-day CPAC event.

“Even right here in Texas. We are the epicenter of a border and migration crisis unlike anything anyone has ever seen before in the history of our country. At the same time, they have totally obliterated your energy industry – I told you. Under my administration, we achieved a historic reduction in illegal immigration. … We ended the horrible catch and release where we catch a criminal and release him into our country. We actually said, ‘Nope, it’s called stay in Mexico.’

“It worked very well, and it had the support of Mexico. … We reduced drugs pouring across our border by the highest percentage ever in the history of our country. ... We shut down the migrant caravans. We dealt a crippling blow to MS-13. We deported criminal aliens by the thousands and thousands and we built almost 500 miles of border wall."

Biden's border crisis, he said, "is helping drive in an unprecedented crime wave."

"The bloodshed and violence in these cities is reaching epidemic proportions," he said. "Homicides are up 42% in Los Angeles, 37% in Philadelphia, 68% in Atlanta and over 500% in Portland over this time last year. ... In New York City, crime is out of control. It's at record levels with nobody being prosecuted except, of course, innocent Republicans are being prosecuted," a likely reference to New York prosecutors charging the Trump Organization of running a 15-year scheme to help its executives evade taxes by compensating them with fringe benefits that were hidden from the authorities.

Trump also hit Democrats for their stances on law enforcement, gun rights, critical race theory and election laws. 

"They are hard at work to abolish the First Amendment as well," he said. 

"Probably all amendments, when you get right down to it. Why not?" he said. "The radical left and big tech's attack on free speech is unlawful, it's unconstitutional, and it is completely un-American. To protect the constitutional rights and liberty's of every citizen, this week I filed a major class action. We are suing Facebook, Twitter and Google."

Trump earlier this week announced class-action lawsuits against the tech giants over their "unlawful" censorship of him and other conservatives, after the social media giants banned him from posting in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

The actions are being supported by the America First Policy Institute, headed by former Trump officials Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins, who introduced Trump at the announcement. Axios first reported AFPI's involvement.

The speech at the CPAC event was Trump’s second address to the group since he left office.

"We celebrate our rich heritage and national traditions. We honor George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and all of our national heroes," Trump said. "And of course, we always respect our great American flag.

"We believe in patriotic education for our children, and we strongly oppose the radical indoctrination of America's youth. We are committed to defending innocent life and to proudly upholding the Judeo-Cristian jails of our nation's founders."

"Our glorious American inheritance was passed down to us by generations of American patriots who gave everything they had, their sweat, their blood, and even their way of lives to build America into the greatest nation in the history of the world," Trump said, "and we are not going to let it be taken away from us by a small group of radical left Marxist maniacs."

He also touched on his sour relationship with former attorney general William Barr, telling the crowd he was "disappointed" that his AG wasn't able to "hold anyone accountable for the countless abuses of power by the Democrats."

"He didn't hold the corrupt officials who spied on our campaign, remember? I said they're spying on our campaign. Boy, that was, like, a lightning rod went off. Not the authors of the phony dossier. They weren't held responsible. Not the women who slanderedded and lied and defamed Brett Kavanaugh," Trump said. 

Barr in a book excerpt released earlier this week said he suspected Trump's claims of widespread election fraud were "all bulls***," but that he launched unofficial inquiries into some of them to appease his boss.

Hours before his speech , the former president rejected “Fake News Media” narratives attempting to disparage him and impact the “rigged election.”

"The Fake News Media continuously likes stating that I lost the 'suburbs.' How would this be possible when I was the one that stopped the low-income housing agenda of Obama/Biden, already enacted, from happening there,” he said in a statement issued by his Save America PAC. “The suburbs would have been destroyed — but they continuously fail to mention that I got 12 million more votes than I did in 2016, a record for a sitting president along with the 75 million votes, also a record. So how did that happen and how come I 'lost'? This is just more Fake News. And remember, they can say all of this, including the suburbs nonsense, because we had a rigged election!"

The statement seemed to be in response to a New York Times story published Saturday that suggested the suburbs “soured” on the former president in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump also said his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was only now being appreciated.

"For all of those finally realizing what a great job we did with respect to the pandemic, including rapidly filling the cupboards that were left 'bare' by the previous administration, in both the federal government and states, please also remember that it was the Trump administration that produced the vaccine in less than 9 months — many years ahead of anticipated schedule,” he said.

"Biden and his group just used our plan of distribution, which had started long before he took office. Without the vaccine, the entire world would have ended up like it was in 1917, the Spanish Flu, where as many as 100 million people died. While we get no credit for this from the Fake News Media, the people know — that's why I got 75 million votes!"

Trump also noted the “dishonest and corrupt” media attempted to discredit him and “demean” his administration.

"Remember when the Fake News Media would blast me about how well Seoul, South Korea was doing with the pandemic? Well now, sadly, Seoul is riddled with the China virus almost beyond what other countries had to go through,” he said of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “They are having a terrible time of it. The media also used India as another country doing really well — we all know how that ended.

"They talked about these two countries in order to demean my administration, which has now been proven to have done an incredible job. I only bring this up to show how dishonest and corrupt the Fake News Media is!"

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Lol, that picture in this post makes clear better than any words could what shit like the CPAC circle jerk is all about. 

We back the Blue!

A car passes supporters of law enforcement holding “thin blue line" flags  
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We back the Blue

The police union reported that the Trumpist insurrectionists injured 140 police officers during their violent take over of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.  As of June, 10 officers remained off work because of the serious injuries they received as a result of the vicious attacks by the Trumpist-Fascists.

Well done sir.

I gave my thoughts privately to our Conservative members.

Low wow Vic, is that how low your standards are? This…. whatever this is is well done? 

I gave my thoughts privately to our Conservative members.

Interesting.  The Trumpist insurrection was planned secretly by fascists extremists who call themselves "Conservatives".

I gave my thoughts privately to our Conservative members.

The real ''Deep State''. LOL

I gave my thoughts privately to our Conservative members.

that's a good thing. how much public humiliation are true believers expected to take.

"We are committed to defending innocent life and to proudly upholding the Judeo-Cristian jails of our nation's founders."

cut and pasted directly from the article. did he actually say this, or is this yet another example of rwnj media illiteracy?

I most certainly wish the man currently dwelling in Bedminster the best with his threats and promises.

Although I also certainly wish he has acquired competent lawyers and does not neglect to compesate them.

I don’t know what serious lawyer would take on any of his cases at this point.

Most lawyers like to get paid, and with Trump that is likely a non-starter. He has left a trail of unpaid debts for years, and there is no reason to think he will start now.

Several 'prestigious' firms have already declined his requests.

And Trump wonders why he can't get competent lawyers.  What he can't seem to understand is, competency comes with a price, and when he does not want to pay that price, he will have to settle with what he can get. There are those who will work just for the chance to kiss his fast ass. And then there are those who are convinced that his not paying his bills is just a rumor and they will take him on and find out the hard way that the 'rumors' are all true.

There is also this.  A Trump criminal proceeding on a specific charge is fraught with the probability of uncovering more charges of an even more serious nature.  A few law firms have suggested that they do not desire to become involved in a defense that could ultimately impugn their reputation or mar their standing in the legal establishment.

they do not desire to become involved in a defense that could ultimately impugn their reputation or mar their standing in the legal establishment.

I have read about some law firms refusing to take his case for fear of their firm being ultimately involved in even more serious issues that they don't want to be associated with. Especially, being up against the DOJ.

with that asshole's reputation of non-payment, they're more fearful of involuntary pro bono work.

Pathetic.  Donald Trump, the worst President in American history.  

If someone went up to Donald Trump and said I will give you ten million dollars if you can correctly define critical race theory , Trump would be able to do nothing else but stand there stammering. 

He would end with talking about how he was the best theorist on race ever. 

According to your seeded article, Trump attacked critical race theory. 

If Donald Trump's life depended on it he could not correctly define critical race theory. 

CPAC attendees cheered the low vaccine numbers and are followers of Trump who did get vaccinated. 

This is the perfect example of how fucking stupid these people are. 

Trump also noted his administration's response to the global coronavirus pandemic is only now being appreciated, adding he saved the world with the Operation Warp Speed delivery of the vaccine:

"For all of those finally realizing what a great job we did with respect to the pandemic, including rapidly filling the cupboards that were left 'bare' by the previous administration, in both the federal government and states, please also remember that it was the Trump administration that produced the vaccine in less than 9 months — many years ahead of anticipated schedule. "Biden and his group just used our plan of distribution, which had started long before he took office. Without the vaccine, the entire world would have ended up like it was in 1917, the Spanish Flu, where as many as 100 million people died. While we get no credit for this from the Fake News Media, the people know — that's why I got 75 million votes!"

And, finally, Trump noted the "dishonest and corrupt" media attempted to discredit him and "demean" his administration, using places like South Korea and India to suggest his response was not the best in the world:

"Remember when the Fake News Media would blast me about how well Seoul, South Korea was doing with the pandemic? Well now, sadly, Seoul is riddled with the China virus almost beyond what other countries had to go through. They are having a terrible time of it. The media also used India as another country doing really well — we all know how that ended. "They talked about these two countries in order to demean my administration, which has now been proven to have done an incredible job. I only bring this up to show how dishonest and corrupt the Fake News Media is!" newsmax

Your response has nothing to do with my comment, but not unusual coming from you.

he saved the world

_______ no words.

he saved the world

Of course he did, he's Q.

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Former President Donald Trump on Sunday praised the efforts of 14 GOP states to change voting laws.

In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Trump predicted many more states will join that move.

“States like Texas and others have taken it to heart, they saw what happened and they see the tragedy of the election,” he said of his loss to President Joe Biden.

“They know what happened. They were very strong during the election and we won Texas very easily. But they know exactly what happened and they've drawn up new laws.”

“Many states — I think it's going to be 41 states — are looking at it,” he added.

“We cannot have that where a large percentage of our population — in 78% of the Republican Party — thinks the election was rigged and stolen. We cannot have that as a country.”

Trump also lauded the move by some states to uncover alleged fraud in the election results.

“Georgia was so corrupt, so incredibly corrupt,” Trump said. “Frankly nobody has seen anything like it. And you have [the state’s] secretary of state, you have a governor that does nothing about it and they have to get on the ball.”

“If you look at what's going on in Arizona, it's been incredible, the state senators in Arizona have taken it to heart, they're doing an audit, a forensic audit, like you have not seen in this country,” Trump said.

And he said in Pennsylvania, “they are starting an audit” as well.

“So many areas in New Hampshire they found horrible things… with respect to the voting,” he adding, declaring: “We will go forward and we will see what happens.”:

Trump also depicted his lawsuit against Big Tech companies as landmark.

“We’re working with the America First Policy Institute, brilliant people, great lawyers, everybody so enthused,” he said of an institute chaired by Linda McMahon, who led Trump’s Small Business Administration.

“People are joining because of the class action — it's not about me it's about everybody. People are joining left and right,” he said.

“They're not private companies they're getting the biggest subsidies,” he said of technology companies like Twitter and Facebook, which have booted Trump from those platforms.

“You can call it that, they're getting the biggest subsidy that any company has ever gotten from a government. They are immune to so many different things, but they're not immune from the lawsuit. What they have done is such a violation of the Constitution, a violation like we've never seen before, they take me down, they take all conservative voices down or most of them… it's a disgrace.

Trump said the tech companies have “a sick motivation and when you look at it they allowed Hamas, they allow countries and dictators that want to destroy everything and everybody in doing tremendous harm to their country, killing people by the thousands, they are allowed better than the president of the United States.”

Trump also castigated Hunter Biden.

“I've been under investigation since the day I came down the escalator,” he said. “Between Russia, Russia, Mueller and all these different things. I been under heavy and they failed totally.

He said of Democrats, “they weaponize this in so many different things, they weaponize the IRS, and things against Republicans and Republicans have not done it to them.”

“How much can Republicans stand,” he asked…

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Imagine Jimmy Carter acting this way in July 1981...

Can't, can you? Because Jimmy Carter lost in 1980.

Trump has no shame and can't accept he is beaten!

Trump has no shame and can't accept he is beaten!

Trump thinks of those who lose as being low life, thus, losing the 2020 election really sticks in his craw and he can't stand being what he hates so deeply. 

Carter had no intention of running again in 1984.  Big difference.  Trump lost by hook and by crook and he’s emulating Grover Cleveland who lost for reelection and turned around and ran again winning another term.  Trump will be a 2024 candidate for the entirely of the Biden Presidency.  

Biden's whooping of Trump was so substantial I suppose Biden will easily whoop Trump's lousy ass again. After all, Biden's approval rating is well above 55% and Trump's is under 40%...

I personally have a feeling that if Trump does run, he will cheat any way he and his supporters can to steal the election. He will not be able to stand to be a loser twice. His ego and that of his ill minded supporters can't handle that.

So I suspect we will be riots and perhaps another attempt to over-throw our government as we saw on Jan 6, 2021, only more violently.

What you said is a possibility to be sure.

However, the ultimate threat to Trump, the Q, the MAGA and the GOP in general will always be----If the World learns what was asked, promised and discussed behind those closed doors at Helsinki, that will result in a political implosion of a magnitude of unimaginable consequence.

for the entirely

"entirety" ?

(you're welcome)

that will result in a political implosion of a magnitude of unimaginable consequence.

Very true, bb-1. With Trump, any and every thing is possible. But, if he does run in 2024, I will be like a civil war, as he will not accept a second loss. And he will again incite his supporters to take down the Capitol and sit on the side lines and laugh at them, like he did on Jan 6, 2021.

I think that you are correct.  

We’ve been having riots and more violence and even insurrection since late May of last year.  

It was Trump who sanctioned Russia, stopped their pipeline and armed the Ukrainians with defensive weapons.  Biden kissed Putin’s ass and gave him his pipeline while canceling ours.  We know who is in bed with Moscow and he’s in the White House now. 

If there are riots by the Trumptards on 13 Aug when he is NOT reinstated, I hope that any and all LE take off the kid gloves off when dealing with them.

Donald Trump is the sworn enemy of the American people and the American way of life.

His extremist supporters are continuing to plot against our country.  

Americans must be vigilant in the safeguarding of our freedom from the fascist enemy.

Uncle Joe Biden is the sworn enemy of the American people and the real American way of life.

His extremist supporters are continuing to plot against our country with CRT and 1619 propaganda.  

Americans must be vigilant in the safeguarding of our freedom from the fascist enemy in the White House now.

You copy and paste Gsquared comment and change the names, don't you have any writing skills at all?

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He is saying a version of

"I'm rubber and you're glue

whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. "

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As I've commented every time he does it, which is a frequent and regular thing:

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."  -- Oscar Wilde

I did a lot more than you said.  The point is that whatever it is that you think of Trump and his supporters, we think of and hold in even less esteem Biden and his supporters.  Nothing will give us more satisfaction than another Trump administration in 2025!

It's not possible to hold anyone in less esteem than the utter contempt and disgust real Americans have for Trump and the Trumpist-Fascist cultists.

Polly want a cracker?

“We cannot have that where a large percentage of our population — in 78% of the Republican Party — thinks the election was rigged and stolen. We cannot have that as a country.”

So he's never admitted he lost and spent the last 9 months telling anyone who would listen that the election was rigged and stolen from him but now references the 78% of Republicans he's bamboozled as proof that it was somehow rigged? And that's "something we cannot have"? Really? You really can't get more weasely than dishonest Donald.

“Georgia was so corrupt, so incredibly corrupt,” Trump said.

I hope they sue his stupid ass for slander. The Republicans in control of the election in Georgia would have loved nothing more than a Republican win, the majority of Republicans voted for him. The fact that they couldn't certify a Trump win in their State had nothing to do with corruption, it had everything to do with rational Americans kicking that piece of shit to the curb and because the Republicans counted the ballots multiple times, they knew, without committing fraud themselves, they had to certify a win for Joe Biden.

"And you have [the state’s] secretary of state, you have a governor that does nothing about it and they have to get on the ball.”

Yes Donald, you have people with actual backbones who don't crumple under tyrant threats and intimidation, surprise, surprise. He thought he had weeded any backbone out of his party and that they would all bend to his will like a flaccid jellyfish washed up on the shore. I think he was pissed off the most by the fact that anyone dared to do the right thing and certify the actual election results instead of how things work in his buddy Putin's country where even the pro-hockey players know to let the bumbling armature score 5 goals even though a 7 year old who'd never been on the ice before could easily defend against him. I've no doubt Trump was thinking "In my two favorite countries, Russia or North Korea, those bastards heads would be rolling right now!".

“We’re working with the America First Policy Institute, brilliant people, great lawyers, everybody so enthused,”

So in Trump speak that would be the "dumbest people, terrible lawyers, no one is enthused but I'm forcing them to do it because of my enormous, massive, overinflated ego."

“I've been under investigation since the day I came down the escalator,”

Like the first escalator he ever went down I'm assuming? Back in like 1950? Yes, he's always been part of a wannabe mafia real estate tycoons household that engaged in shady deals and out-right tax evasion so being investigated is nothing out of the ordinary.

 “they weaponize this in so many different things, they weaponize the IRS, and things against Republicans and Republicans have not done it to them.”

What utter hyperbolic bullshit. Only dumb shits with little to no brain left believe anyone "weaponized" the IRS, the whole IRS debacle was uncovered and there was no "there" there. Both conservative and progressives groups were being singled out. There was no order from the white house telling them to target conservatives.

“How much can Republicans stand,”

How much of Trumps bullshit and childish behavior can Republicans stand, that is a good question. Apparently it is far more than any sane American, Trump is now left with the dregs of a gas bloated stinking whale carcass on the beach that most rational Americans avoid for fear they'll get covered in the stink when it explodes.

Trumps approval rating today at CPAC was 98%.  

Goes to prove that there are a lot of suckers and idiots in CPAC.

It is strange that he thinks that's something to brag about. 

Somebody needs money.  The CPAC version two was a grift.

3,000 to 4,000 republicans in Texas...big surprise /s

People traveled from all over the country to attend the great event.  It used to be held in or around DC annually.  Government used the pandemic to try to cancel it so we had two of them, one in Florida one in Texas.  

It is.  People who I agree with and who generally agree with me.  Trump is back!  Trumpism lives.  

Trumpism is a death cult.

The best Trump argument that he won, from a comical point of view , is that he got more votes than any other incumbent president ever had before.  Trump actually believes this is proof that he won the election. 

There are more people in America than ever before. Raw vote totals mean little on an historical basis. 

You know what, Trump got more votes last November than John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon put together did in 1960. That is explainable by the fact there are roughly 2 1/2 times more voting age people in the US in 2020 compared to 1960. And a higher percentage of the people today are registered to vote. 

There is nothing mysterious about it when it comes to the raw numbers. 

Trump is so stupid he thinks because he got 74 million votes that means if he didnt win it was stolen from him because no other incumbent president ever got 74 million votes before. Uh, the other guy got 81 million. 

I got 12 million more votes than I did in 2016, a record for a sitting president along with the 75 million votes, also a record. So how did that happen and how come I 'lost'? This is just more Fake News.

He's a moron.

I don't think it's because Trump is "stupid" or a "moron", although many of his followers must surely be.  Trump is engaged in a classic authoritarian disinformation campaign, much like the usual methods employed by authoritarians in the past.

I refer you to Doyle McManus' column in today's L A. Times where he quotes Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institute that "one root of our current political crisis is an 'epistemic war', a battle over whether objective truth exists."

Rauch is further quoted by McManus as stating:  "Epistemic warfare is now the modus operandi of the Republican Party."

Further, McManus quotes Rauch as saying that he considers Trump "the greatest innovator in disinformation since the 1930s", referencing Hitler and Stalin.

I tend to believe that you are what you demonstrate yourself to be. If someone talks like a moron 365 days a year for 6 years, he's a moron in my book. 

Without a doubt, Trump has said more provably stupid things over the years than the other 44 presidents put together. 

Donald Trump has repeatedly said , many many times now, that one of the reasons he knows he won the election is because he got 75 million votes (actually closer to 74) and no other sitting president ever got 75 million votes before. Only a moron would think that is good reasoning. That also means of course that there are many morons among his intended audience. 

I certainly can't dispute that he constantly says moronic things, but I don't think that he actually believes any of it.   He know that his followers believe anything he says or are willing to help him promote his lies.  The hallmark of an authoritarian demagogue.

A lot of the other guys 81 million were totally fraudulent.  

Only a loser of Godwin’s law would compare Trump or any other American leader on either side to Hitler or Stalin. 

Comment 9.2.5 is propaganda promoting the Trumpist-Fascist Big Lie.

Trump is NOT an American leader.

A lot of the other guys 81 million were totally fraudulent.  

Without evidence your claim is just bullshit.   At this point in time, it is utterly stupid bullshit.

With all the recounting and analysis there is no evidence that Trump legitimately won.   In contrast, there is overwhelming evidence produced by our national electoral process that proves Biden was the decisive winner.   Trump lost;  buy a vowel.

Trump was absolutely right about everything he said yesterday.  Especially the points that you contested.  

Trump is never right about anything.  Trump is a neo-Fascist demagogue whose entire persona is based on a lie.

Trump was absolutely right about everything he said yesterday.  Especially the points that you contested.

Wow, what a completely baseless, unfounded and fact-less retort containing nothing but spurious opinion. Not that anything more was expected. Just more par for the course from wildly ignorant dipshit conservative media.

Even FOX news had to run disclaimers because they knew he was lying his ass off.