With just 19 days to go before the 2020 presidential election comes to an end, President Donald Trump appeared on Fox Business for an interview with Stuart Varney. While some of the interview was just typical Trump – bragging, name-calling, and lying – he also went on vicious attacks that show just how desperate he’s becoming with his dismal poll numbers and a country determined to see him gone.
Trump tells Stuart Varney that he won't call up Pelosi and negotiate a stimulus bill because she has "a lot of mental problems" pic.twitter.com/UBcUD5F3iy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020
When asked about the stimulus package for coronavirus relief, the topic most Americans are most interested in, Trump made big promises and attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as having “mental problems.” Trump said that he would raise stimulus package above 1.4 or 1.8 trillion dollars (the numbers varied throughout the interview), but that Pelosi is holding it up. but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced that he’s only willing to go up to 500 billion dollars. Despite this, he continued to blame Pelosi, saying “she’s got a lot of mental problems,” and “she wants to wait until after the election.” The House passed a stimulus bill, by the way, in May 2020.
"If you take New York out, we have [coronavirus] numbers that nobody can even can compete with it. New York and a couple of places." — Trump pic.twitter.com/fHg8IrUjSM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020
Asked about his own experience with COVID-19, Trump said he is “feeling good” and while he was very sick at one time, he “went through the process. We gotta do it!” We actually don’t, there are clear examples from numerous other countries on how to contain the virus, but Trump says there will be no more lockdowns despite a new spike in virus numbers.
He went on to criticize the governor of Michigan for her continued efforts to contain the virus, saying “she wants to be a dictator in Michigan and the people can’t stand her.” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was just revealed to have been part of a kidnapping plot inspired by Trump’s criticism of her as a “dictator.”
Q: Can you be sure that the Hunter Biden emails story isn't a set up?
TRUMP: "Oh, I don't know what 'set up' is." pic.twitter.com/nJYM0EeOSK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020
Trump couldn’t resist discussing the questionable article by The New York Post that published what they said was innocently-obtained documents and emails from the laptop of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Trump said it proved that “Joe Biden is a totally corrupt politician, he has been all his life” although the hacked materials didn’t prove anything about Joe Biden, but he continued to hammer on about Biden’s state-sanctioned visit to Ukraine as Vice President, backed by the IMF and our EU allies, to oust corrupt prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Although none of that was done secretly and even some Republicans backed it, Trump has persisted in insisting something sinister happened. It didn’t.
"She wants to be a dictator in Michigan. And the people can't stand her." — Trump attacks Gretchen Whitmer, who was the victim of a kidnapping/assassination plot hatched by his supporters pic.twitter.com/LXqlLToSLd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020
