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The 43 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump's Fox town hall

Whoa boy.

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Chris Cillizza
Feb 21, 2024
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee sat down with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Tuesday night, answering “questions” about Nikki Haley, the 2024 general election, foreign policy and his many legal entanglements.

I am BIG believer that we need to listen carefully to what Donald Trump says during the course of this campaign because it is the best way we can understand what he will DO if he is elected president again.

So, I went through the full transcript of his conversation with Ingraham and pulled out the lines you need to see. They’re below.

  1. “You’re not supposed to lose your home state. It shouldn't happen anyway. And [Nikki Haley’s] losing it bigly -- big. I mean, really -- I said bigly.”

“I said bigly.” And away we go!

  1. “She's losing it bigly.”

Yes, you’ve mentioned that.

  1. “I don't think she knows how to get out, actually.”

Trump suggests that Haley is still in the race because, um, she doesn’t know how to get out. Does he mean, like, literally?

  1. “No, but [Biden] was not one of the smarter people. He's tried to be president many times, four times at least that they know of.”

Biden tried to run for president three times — and he won the third time. Also, what does “at least that they know of” mean in this context? Did Biden secretly run for president when no one was looking?

  1. “If I was -- if I felt diminished, OK, let's use a nice term -- if I felt diminished or declined in any way, I think I'd know it. And I think I'd say, I'm not running.”

Trump is fully in control of his mental capacity because, um, he says he is fully in control of his mental capacity. Got it!

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