It’s time to ask the question of Republicans regarding Donald Trump that Republicans wanted Democrats, for going on two years, to ask regarding Joe Biden.
Is it time?
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame,” Trump asserted, memorably, at what was probably the low point of his political career, in Tuesday’s ABC News debate with Democrat Kamala Harris.
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What was worse about the line was, it didn’t seem that he was knowingly lying, like he was about not knowing anything about Project 2025, or just being crass, like he was when he tried to cast Harris as a Marxist – like he has any idea what a Marxist actually is.
(Or, for that matter, that even the target audience for that line, high school-educated or less white geriatrics, know what a Marxist is.)
Trump, when pressed by moderator David Muir, doubled, tripled, quadrupled and quintupled down on the immigrants eating dogs, cats and pets thing.
“I’ve seen people on television,” Trump tried to interject, as Muir explained that the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, had debunked the unhinged interwebs rumor that the ex-president was citing.
“The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food, so maybe he said that, and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager,” Trump said, as Muir continued to try to bring him back to sanity.
“I’m not taking this from television. I’m taking it from the city manager,” Muir said, prompting Trump to go at it again.
“But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there,” Trump said.
“Again, the Springfield city manager says there’s no evidence of that,” Muir said.
“We’ll find out,” was Trump’s last line here.
The issue with Biden in the June 27 CNN debate was that he came out looking and sounding old, tired, he slipped in an answer in which he mumbled, “We finally defeated Medicare,” just generally didn’t look up to the rigors of running a presidential campaign.
What did we see different from Trump last night?
Something is wrong with a person who saw something on TV about people eating pets and doesn’t think it through from a believability standpoint before repeating it in casual conversation with a friend, much less that person being a candidate for the highest office in the land, and feeling compelled to repeat it, multiple times, on national TV, after being given numerous opportunities to walk it back.
Republicans, for the past two years, made Joe Biden’s age and mental capacity the prevailing issue in the 2024 campaign.
Right back atcha, MAGA.
Your guy is 78, he’s clearly declining, and unlike Biden, whose crime was coming across as a doddering old man, Trump is at the stage of dementia where he’s violently lashing out at the world.
Which is bad enough when it’s grandpa, and he doesn’t want to go into assisted living, and he yells at ghosts to get off his damn lawn.
It’s another thing entirely when the angry, demented grandpa is going on and on about his dictator friends who have nuclear missiles pointed at us.
Republicans, you know this already, it’s time.
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Chris Graham
