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As perhaps 100 million Americans

prepare to watch tonight's first debate,

there's something I'd like you to consider.

In the first volume in this series of comments

I listed 176 reasons Donald Trump cannot and must not

be elected president of the United States.

That list was actually only half its original length,

and it still took nearly 17 minutes to read aloud.

And since then, to my amazement

I have discovered at least two other lists

that included dozens of other events

that had flown by in such volume and so quickly

that I had never even noticed them.

To paraphrase William Hurt in the movie Body Heat,

sometimes the trump comes down so heavy

I feel like I should wear a hat.

And it appears it's now coming down heavier still.

What follows is 74 more reasons Donald Trump

cannot and must not be elected president

of the United States.

There are a few items from those other lists

that I mentioned, but virtually everything

you will hear now has happened since just

the ninth of September.

The Republican party has actually nominated for president

a man who attacked Hillary Clinton

for contracting pneumonia, who attacked her

and implied she was concealing still other illnesses,

who attacked her again with a false claim

that she wants to eliminate the Second Amendment,

and then suggested her body guards be disarmed

and quote, let's see what happens to her.

Who attacked her a third time on Twitter,

just in case anybody missed that dog whistle

for somebody to try to shoot her.

Who attacked her during a supposedly non-partisan speech

to the poisoned water victims of Flint, Michigan,

who attacked the pastor in Flint, Michigan,

who interrupted him and asked him to stop attacking Clinton,

who attacked the residents of Flint, Michigan,

for their crime rate.

Who attacked the United States as a quote

third world country, who attacked America's inner cities

as more dangerous than parts of Afghanistan.

Who attacked a former CIA Director as dopey

after the man wrote an article critical of him.

Who attacked Maureen Dowd of the New York Times

after she was critical of him in an interview

and called her a dope, wacky, neurotic, crazy.

Who attacked the New York Times as a quote laughing stock,

failing, nuts, a rag, and claimed he talked his lawyers

out of suing them for irresponsible intent,

when there is no such law, legal term,

or provision applicable to a newspaper.

Who attacked CNN and the networks president personally

after suggesting its documentary about him

was inaccurate, even though he had repeatedly said

he no longer ever watched CNN.

Who attacked a Fox News commentator confined to a wheelchair

as quote, a guy that can't buy a pair of pants.

Who attacked Asian businessmen in a stereotyped accent,

claiming they only say quote, we want deal.

Who attacked Jewish businessmen, claiming I'm a negotiator

like you folks were negotiators, and you're not going

to support me because I don't want your money.

The Republican party has actually nominated for president

a man who lied about Hillary Clinton planning to literally

abolish American borders.

Who lied about whether or not Hillary Clinton

had begun birther-ism.

Who lied about resolving birther-ism.

Who lied about the nature of the hotel promotional event

at which he lied about birther-ism.

Who seems to have lied about why he finally formally

backed away from birther-ism, telling an Ohio TV station,

I wanted to get on with the campaign.

Who lied about the term alt-right having recently

been quote made up.

Who lied about the term alt-right having been

coined by Hillary Clinton.

Who lied that his answer to Howard Stern

on September 11th 2002, about whether this country

should go to war in Iraq was I don't know,

when in fact it was yeah, I guess so,

and the answer is on tape!

Who lied that an interview with Sean Hannity in 2003

proved he was opposed to the Iraq War in 2002,

when it fact he was recorded saying Iraq quote,

looks like a tremendous success.

Who lied that a 2004 magazine article proves

he was opposed to the Iraq War in 2002.

Who lied about how the terrorist attack

at the Bataclan Club in Paris could've been averted

if attendees had been armed.

Who lied about how the African-American youth

unemployment rate is 58%, when it's actually 20%.

Who lied to an audience that Hillary Clinton

is raising their taxes substantially, when her only proposed

tax increase applies only to the top 1% of all earners.

Who lied about Hillary Clinton destroying 13 phones

with a hammer.

Who lied about polls he claimed showing there was more

enthusiasm for him than for any

previous presidential candidate.

The Republican party has actually nominated for president

a man who claimed, before investigators on the scene

of the explosion could or did reach any conclusions,

that quote a bomb unquote, had gone off in New York City.

Who claimed our, quote extremely open immigration system

was responsible for the bombing,

even though the suspect arrested was an American citizen

with no known connection to international terrorism.

Who claimed that he could stand in New York City

and shoot people and not lose any supporters.

Who claimed that fed money policy was being manipulated

to politically benefit the president of the United States,

who claimed that Hillary Clinton is running a hate-filled

campaign, during an event in which one of his supporters

was filmed grabbing a protester by the neck

and punching him, after which a 69 year old woman

protester was photographed on the ground,

allegedly after being punched by a man.

Who claimed he knew Russia well because he had staged

beauty pageants there, who claimed that Vladimir Putin

called him a genius, when the Russian word Putin used

translates as colorful, or lively, or flamboyant.

Who claimed after years of implying he had met him

and knew him well that quote, honestly I don't know

Vladimir Putin.

Who claimed in an interview he did with Larry King,

that ran on a network owned by the Kremlin,

that he doubted that Russia, which the US government

has claimed hacked the Democratic National Committee,

was attempting to disrupt the election.

Who claimed that the debates will be rigged

and thus should have no moderator.

Who claimed that he will replace Obamacare with quote,

many different plans, plans you don't even know about,

health care plans that will be so good.

Who claimed that his time at a military prep high school

gave him better military training than a lot of people

in the military.

Who claimed that American wages are too high,

who seemed unable to differentiate

between Hamas and Hezbollah.

Who seemed unable to differentiate between

the Quds and the Kurd's.

Who claimed Belgium is a city.

Who claimed parts of London and Paris are so filled

with terrorists, police are afraid to go into them.

Who claimed that he keeps himself in good physical shape

by exercise consisting of making many hand gestures

while he gives speeches!

The Republican party has actually nominated for president

a man who has aligned himself with his son,

who made a Holocaust gas chamber joke about the campaign.

Who has aligned himself with his son who made

a bizarre meme comparing Syrian refugees

to poisoned candies, and used a photo taken by a refugee.

Who has aligned himself with Ben Carson,

who responded to Hillary Clinton's pneumonia

by suggesting she get a specialized MRI.

Who has aligned himself with the co-chair

of his Veterans for Trump, who insists

Secretary Clinton has Parkinson's Disease.

Who has aligned himself with his latest campaign manager

Kellyanne Conway, who insists Clinton has lied

about her pneumonia.

Who has aligned himself with Conway even though

when it was reported that George H. W. Bush

is voting for Clinton, she said, I respect the 92 year old

former president very much, as if his age was

the determining factor in his voting choice.

Who has aligned himself with Conway even though

she denied there should be extensive medical reporting

on Trump, 16 days after Trump proposed both camps

release full medical records.

Who has aligned himself with his running mate

Mike Pence, who refused to call white supremacist

David Duke deplorable.

Who has aligned himself with his own spokeswoman

Katrina Pierson, who publicly assessed presidential

candidates purity of breeding!

The Republican party has actually nominated for president

a man who was revealed to have told Maureen Dowd

that there was nothing wrong with violence

at his rallies, that it added excitement.

Whose campaign was then revealed to have the same day,

while Dowd's former assistant, now a journalist,

waited to find out if he would get credentials

to cover a Trump speech, allowed the Houston police

to arrest the man for trespassing.

Who was revealed to have announced the New York

pressure cooker attack within minutes of the explosion,

but who waited 12 hours to express concern

about the victims.

Who was revealed to have waited 24 hours to express concern

about the victims in the Minnesota stabbings.

Who was revealed to have waited 36 hours

to express concern about the New Jersey explosion.

Who was revealed to have then congratulating himself

on quote calling the New York bombing.

Who was revealed to have questioned why the suspect

in the New York bombing, an unconvicted American citizen,

was to receive medical care, a lawyer, and food.

Who was revealed to have received 9/11 funds intended

for small businesses.

Who was revealed to have told as many as five separate

lies about what he personally did on 9/11.

Who was revealed to have responded to 9/11 on 9/11

by claiming a building he owned was now the tallest

in downtown Manhattan, and it wasn't even that.

Who was revealed to have spent $30,000 in Trump Foundation

charitable funds on portraits of himself,

who was revealed to have spent $5000 in Trump Foundation

charitable funds on advertising for his hotels.

Who was revealed to have spent $258,000

in Trump Foundation charitable funds to settle lawsuits

against his for-profit businesses.

Who was revealed to have told an interviewer

that people living in poverty are quote morons,

who was revealed to have mused

about deporting Hillary Clinton.

Who inexplicably retweeted an article titled,

Trump's birther event is the greatest trick

he's ever pulled.

And if that last one doesn't sum up this campaign,

what could?

I'm Keith Olbermann, that's The Closer,

watch this space.