Transcript

(buzzing)

Every few generations, we Americans are called upon

to defend our country.

To defend it not so much from foreign dictators

or war or terrorism,

but from those here who have no commitment to progress

or democracy or representative government,

no commitment to anything

except their own out of control minds,

and the bottomless pits of their egos.

Our society has thrown up these people before.

Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin,

Jefferson Davis, Aaron Burr,

The Know-Nothings, The Blacklisters, The America-Firsters,

and we have always thrown them out.

And now our generation has its own,

the most dangerous individual ever nominated

by a major party for the highest office in this country.

His base wants few details and fewer facts.

They just wanna burn it down and blame their failures

on the collective other,

and Donald John Trump is their demonic messiah

in Oompa Loompa's clothing.

We must stop him, it is not pleasant,

it is not fair that we have to do this

but it is our turn.

The average report in this series will ask

for about six minutes of your time,

this one needs nearly three times as much.

The text version includes more than 160 links,

I encourage you to read and save

because the Emperor's New Clothes quality

to the Trump campaign has survived these 15 months

because as we react to each outrage,

our shock and revulsion has been refracted

like light through a prism.

But these outrages are not separate events,

not even a pattern, they are simply Donald Trump.

Seen all at once, they and he are horrifying

and you must see them all at once.

Thus in brief, the story so far.

The Republican Party has actually nominated

for president a man who attacked the Pope,

who attacked John McCain

for being captured by the North Vietnamese,

who attacked Gold Star parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan

and then juxtaposed their names

with the phrase radical Islamic terrorism.

Who attacked Hilary Clinton as a quote, bigot

who attacked her as brainwashed, as unhinged,

as a monster, as the devil,

as the most corrupt candidate ever,

showing her face on piles of $100 bills

and the Star of David.

Who attacked her someone who Second Amendment people

should do something about,

as someone whose religion we don't know anything about,

after he had explained

he had never asked God for forgiveness.

Who attacked President Obama and implied he was a traitor.

Who attacked him as having been complicit

in the Orlando terrorist attack.

Who attacked him for having lower approval ratings

than Vladimir Putin as if Putin's approval ratings

could somehow be trusted.

Who attacked him as being born in another country,

who attacked him as the founder of ISIS

then said that was sarcasm,

then said it wasn't sarcasm,

then attacked him again as the founder of ISIS.

Who attacked Carly Fiorina for her face,

Hilary Clinton for her non-presidential look,

Heidi Cruz for her appearance,

Megyn Kelly for having blood coming out of her wherever.

Mika Brzezinski as crazy and very dumb,

neurotic, not very bright.

Who attacked the women who accused

Roger Ailes of harassment.

Who attacked the women who choose abortion

and who said there should be punishments.

Who attacked a New York Times reporter

because he had a condition that made

his arms look atypical.

Who attacked Judge Gonzalo Curiel

because he was of Mexican descent.

Who attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren

over allegedly lying over her heritage

to get into Harvard when she never went to Harvard.

Who attacked Senator Jeff Flake by saying

he will not be re-elected this year

when Senator Flake is not up for re-election until 2018.

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who attacked US troops in Iraq

and claimed they stole millions.

Who has attacked Ted Cruz's father

and claimed he was connected

to the assassination of President Kennedy.

Attacked Bill Clinton and claimed he was a rapist.

Who attacked Mexicans as rapists,

bringing drugs and crime.

Who attacked African Americans

and claimed they were all living in poverty

with no jobs and schools that were no good.

Who attacked Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a war zone

and attacked the United States of America

and claimed it is in a quote, death spiral.

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who lied about opposing the war in Iraq

when there is a tape of him supporting it,

a tape recorded on the first anniversary of 9/11.

Who lied about opposing the war in Iraq

during a speech in which he insisted,

I will never lie to you.

Who lied about $6 million in charitable donations

to veterans groups from his telethon,

who lied about donating his profits from The Apprentice,

about charitable donations from The Celebrity Apprentice,

from Trump: The Game and to St. Jude Cancer Center.

Who lied about a plan to debate Bernie Sanders for charity.

Who lied about why he would not release his taxes

because he was being audited

and then proved himself a liar by saying

he would release his taxes

if Secretary Clinton released emails.

Who lied about how much money his father gave him

helping him to get out of college,

who lied about sending his private jet

to ferry stranded US servicemen.

Who lied about talking to the attorney general of Florida

who declined to investigate Trump University

after she had been given a campaign donation.

Who lied about his business in Russia,

who lied about meeting Russian President Putin,

who lied about offering child care to his employees

when it was child care for his hotel guests.

Who lied about some people wanting a moment of silence

for the murderer of five Dallas policemen.

Who lied about seeing thousands of Muslims in New Jersey

celebrating 9/11.

Who lied about 9/11 hijackers sending their wives

and girlfriends home to Saudi Arabia.

Who lied about thousands of Syrian refugee terrorists

being secretly admitted to this country,

who lied about the Chicago police

urging him to cancel a rally.

Who lied about the Chicago police saying,

They could solve crime there with tough police tactics.

Who lied about how there was no drought in California,

how he never said Japan should have nuclear weapons,

how he opposed the ouster of Egyptian President Mubarak,

how the unemployment rate is 42%.

Who lied about ISIS making millions a week

in selling Libyan oil,

who lied about dozens of

secret terrorist cases in this country.

Who lied that a protester who tried to rush onto his stage

had ties to ISIS.

Who lied last May and again last week

about refugees entering this country

carrying cellphones with ISIS flags on them

and phone plans prepaid by ISIS!

Can you hear me now?

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who congratulated himself in two tweets

and a press release for predicting

terrorist attacks like Orlando

while bodies still lay in the Pulse nightclub.

Who congratulated himself after the killing

of Dwyane Wade's cousin.

Who congratulated himself on predicting Brexit

even though three weeks earlier

he had never heard of Brexit.

Who congratulated himself on

republican convention TV ratings

even though those for his closing speech

were lower than John McCain's.

Who congratulated himself by disseminating a video

showing how much of that speech's total running time

was taken up by applause.

Who congratulated himself in having

the world's greatest memory

then three weeks later testified in a deposition

he had no memory of ever saying that.

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who has proposed that Russia or China

should enact a Watergate-like hacking

of Hilary Clinton's emails,

who has proposed banning Muslims from entering this country

then said it was only a suggestion,

then proposed it again.

Whose running mate has proposed

banning members of other religions,

who has proposed open racial profiling,

who has proposed banning people from terror nations

saying, Look it up, they have a list.

Who has proposed ideological certification for immigrants,

who has proposed worse than waterboarding

while praising how Saddam Hussein,

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un

handled protest and terrorism.

Who has proposed that American civilians

be tried by military commissions at Gitmo,

who has proposed killing the families of terrorists

or suspected terrorists.

A man who has proposed teaching

mandatory patriotism in school,

proposed that his supporters appoint themselves

as election day voting monitors,

proposed making American protection

of fellow NATO members C-O-D,

whose campaign proposed purging the government

of all Obama appointees.

Proposed avoiding government debt by printing more money,

proposed reducing national debt

by paying less than we agreed to.

Proposed forestalling new financial regulations

by executive order and then in the same speech,

proposed eliminating some executive orders.

A man who has proposed a wall along the Mexican border

to keep out undocumented immigrants,

proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants,

proposed the smaller wall and fewer deportations

during a taped TV interview

that played at the same moment he was giving a speech

in Phoenix insisting on a larger wall and more deportations.

A man who has proposed immediately expelling

at least two to three million undocumented immigrants

even though this would be like trying to evacuate

the city of Chicago in one day.

Proposed immediately expelling

any others not convicted but merely accused of a crime.

A man who has proposed to enact all these

by executive action bypassing congress

even though he employed undocumented immigrants himself

in the building of Trump Tower,

even though those immigrants say,

he not only knew of them but hired them personally

even though his own modeling agency and television shows

enabled and employed undocumented immigrants,

even though his own wife may have worked here

without proper documentation,

even though his own grandfather was reportedly

not merely a fraudulent immigrant to this country,

but was also denied re-entry to Germany

because he was a draft dodger.

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who claimed he understood the sacrifices

of losing a child in war

because he had spent money to hire employees.

Who has claimed he understood prejudice

against African Americans because

the system is also rigged against him.

Claimed the election will be rigged against him,

claimed the opinion polls are rigged against him

then praised one of the exact same polls

when it favored him.

Claimed he would be leading those rigged polls by 20 points

but for rigged media.

Claimed democrats are voting 10 times each,

claimed that his crowd in Colorado Springs

would have been larger but the fire marshal was a democrat.

Claimed that his speech in Washington

would have drawn as many as Martin Luther King's

I Have a Dream speech,

but that nobody would let them in.

A man who has claimed he was

his own best foreign policy adviser,

claimed that Putin will not go into Ukraine

when he had already invaded Ukraine in 2014.

Claimed the US is paying rent for a military base

in Saudi Arabia when the last one there closed in 2003.

Claimed that to avoid hacking the military

should stop communicating on wires

and return to messengers.

A man who has claimed that any candidate

using a teleprompter should be ineligible

and then himself began using a teleprompter.

Claimed that he does not use notes for speeches

during a speech he gave primarily from notes.

Claimed he will fix the problems of African Americans

and then days later suggested

that an African American athlete

protesting police shootings should leave this country.

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who is revealed to have asked

his foreign policy advisers three times in one hour

why this country can't use nuclear weapons

if we have nuclear weapons after having asked

a television interviewer the same question.

Who was revealed to have not known

what the nuclear triad was.

A man who has revealed to have been

the political beneficiary of fake internet accounts

underwritten by the Kremlin.

Revealed to have improperly sought campaign contributions

from foreign nationals

including officials of foreign governments.

A man who has revealed to have erased all his emails

including those sought in a lawsuit for five years.

Revealed to have plagiarized 20 pages

in his Trump Institute handbook,

revealed to have employed the purported author

of his wife's convention speech

which plagiarized part of a speech

written for Michelle Obama

by Hilary Clinton's former speechwriter.

Revealed to have said on his 2008 radio show

that Hilary Clinton would make a good president.

A man who has revealed to have admitted

using the pseudonyms John Barron and John Miller

while pretending to be his own press spokesman

and boasting of his sexual conquest in the 1990s,

and revealed to have used the pseudonym John Barron

while his company threatened his undocumented workers.

Revealed to have telephoned one television network

to alert it to something positive

being said about him on another television network.

A man revealed to have millions in outstanding loans

to the Bank of China,

revealed to have tried to make investment deals

with Muammar Gaddafi.

Revealed to have once kept a book

of Hitler's speeches in a cabinet near his bed.

The Republican Party has actually nominated

for president a man who has allied himself

with his campaign adviser and delegate.

Who said Hilary Clinton should be shot

by firing squad for treason.

Who has allied himself with another campaign adviser

who mused about waterboarding Hilary Clinton.

Who has allied himself with an African American pastor

who disseminated an image of Hilary Clinton in blackface.

Who has allied himself with his own son

who follows a series of white supremacists Twitter accounts.

A man who has allied himself

with at least seven campaign staffers,

who have disseminated racist and/or violent messages

on social media.

Who has allied himself with a state campaign co-chairman

who tweeted, Lynch Loretta Lynch.

Who has allied himself with an Illinois Trump delegate

who is a white supremacist,

a California Trump delegate

who is a white nationalist leader,

a former personal butler who wrote on Facebook

that President Obama should be quote, Hung for treason.

A man who has allied himself

with three different campaign chiefs,

the first who manhandled a woman reporter

and then lied about it.

The second who was listed to receive $12 million

from a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine,

the third who has been accused under

oath of anti-Semitic comments and domestic violence.

A man who has allied himself

with a foreign policy adviser

accused under oath of anti-Semitic comments,

with the New York State co-chair who suggested

Khizr Khan supports ISIS

and is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

With a close adviser who says a Clinton aide

could be a Saudi spy or terrorist agent.

A man who has allied himself

with a former campaign state chairman

accused of drawing a gun on another campaign staffer,

with a conspiracy theorist radio host

who claims the Newtown school shootings were a hoax.

With a political operative so corrupt

he was once fired by Republicans

for falsifying evidence against Hilary Clinton.

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who has offered to pay the legal fees

of any supporter who becomes

physically violent against a heckler,

who encouraged crowd members to harass

and threaten a reporter who he called out by name,

and who then needed Secret Service protection.

Who accepted a military medal from an audience member

and said, I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

This was much easier.

Who conducted a news conference

to introduce his running mate,

only to spend the first 25 minutes

talking only about himself!

Whose prominent Latino surrogate warned Mexican immigration

would put taco trucks on every corner

four months after the nominee himself

commemorated Cinco de Mayo

by tweeting a photo of himself eating from a taco bowl!

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

a man who tweeted thanks to singer Billy Joel

for dedicating songs to him,

never realizing Joel was by doing so, mocking him.

Who gave a trade speech in Monessen, Pennsylvania

standing in front of a wall

made out of bales of compressed garbage.

Who bragged during a presidential debate

about the size of his genitalia,

who gave a TV interview while seated in front

of a photograph of himself

wearing the same suit, shirt and tie.

Who appeared in a joint news conference

with the president of Mexico

with two bobby pins visible holding his hairdo in place!

The Republican Party has actually nominated for president

an irresponsible, unrealistic, naive,

petulant, childish, vindictive,

prejudiced, bigoted, racist,

Islamophobic, anti-Semitic,

misogynistic, fascistic, authoritarian, insensitive,

erratic, disturbed, irrational, inhuman individual

named Donald John Trump.

This is madness!

Any questions?