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Setting: A high school stadium in Ottumwa, Iowa. The upper tier of seats have been closed off for ‘security’ purposes. The Republican Nominee for President is speaking.
“You know that there’s a deranged guy who went after me in New York, right?1 He got this jury to convict me somehow. Totally bogus. Totally bogus. No conviction. But he did get this verdict even though I never did anything wrong. So you know I’m innocent, right?
This guy Austin Ruse — Austin is such a shithole, y’know? Texas is a great state! I love Texas! But Austin, it’s a mess. Garbage everywhere. Everybody hates the place — anyway, Austin Ruse says that I’m like this guy Dreyfus. You know him, the guy in Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That guy! He’s great. I love his movies. Anyway, Ruse says I’m just like Dreyfus, who a bunch of French guys convicted and sent to Devil’s Island — I never went to that place, by the way. That was Jeffrey Epstein. Bad Guy. Bad Guy. I never knew Epstein. Never. — Anway, they sent Dreyfus to this island for stealing secrets and selling them to the Kaiser, even though Dreyfus was, like me, innocent.
Another thing Dreyfus and I have in common is that we really hate sharks.2 Dreyfus, see, in Jaws, Dreyfus knows that it’s a shark — a great White Shark, like, the best shark — that’s killing all the tourists. So the sheriff goes after him, and sends him to that island. And he gets out, with the help of this old sailer dude, and they kill the shark. They won’t get near it.
So see, I’m just like Dreyfus! I hate sharks! And we’re going to make sure nobody in Nevada gets attacked by a shark!
Okay, I’m sorry. I am not a trained actor and I can’t keep this up. This is the Wikipedia article about the actual Alfred Dreyfus, who was convicted in a secret trial on fake evidence even though the French military knew who was the real spy. The actual Dreyfus here was one of the most assimilated Jews in Europe but was picked by reactionaries who hated everything in France since 1789 to be a scapegoat. If you think that applies to Donald Trump, I can’t help you.
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Transcript of a June 10, 20214 Trump rally in Nevada. We have a deranged individual named Jack Smith. He’s a deranged, dumb guy. He’s a dumb son of a bitch. And what he did, what he did, and I just want to get off normal.