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Trump Says Biden Beat Obama?
It doesn’t go well when the former President doesn’t have a teleprompter.
There has been lots, and lots of talk about Donald Trump’s recent speech, and for good reason. He not only said it would be a “bloodbath for the country” if he wasn’t elected, he also said he doesn’t think all migrants are people. Granted, there was nothing particularly revealing in those comments. I don’t think anyone was surprised to hear him say these words, and the unfiltered thoughts that came out of his mouth when he couldn’t see the teleprompter well and was forced to wing it.
But, there was more to it.
Lost in all of the chaos was a sneaky tidbit pointed out by Richard Luscombe with The Guardian, who writes:
“…Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, confused the crowd at an appearance in Vandalia by insisting that Biden had beaten “Barack Hussein Obama” in elections nationally that never took place.
Freewheeling during a speech in which his teleprompters were seemingly disabled by high winds, Trump — a frequent critic of the 81-year-old Biden’s age and mental acuity — struggled to pronounce the words “bite” and “largest”. And he left the crowd scratching their heads over the reference to Obama, whom Biden served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017…
