2024 Election

LEAKED: Trump Caught on Tape Making Jokes About the Man Killed at His Rally

This is absolutely disgusting.

A lot of people just don’t understand how pathologically Donald Trump needs to impress others. Money, looks, popularity, humor — it doesn’t matter. He just needs to show off all the time.

That means he makes some pretty outlandish statements about all of those things. From saying he has a “beautiful body” to lying about his finances and his crowd sizes, Trump says some very wild stuff.

It’s the jokes, though, that sicken me personally.

At a private fundraiser in August, while speaking to donors after the assassination attempt that did end up costing firefighter Corey Comperatore his life, Trump made an extremely crass joke that was caught on tape.

Trump was bragging about the fact that members of his Florida golf resort had wanted to give the firefighter’s widow, Helen, a contribution after the death of her husband.

“I said absolutely and they gave me a check for a million dollars. That’s a lot of money. Maybe even more impressively we put out a GoFundMe and we raised more than $6m for the group that got hurt, which is essentially three people,” Trump says in the audio obtained by The Guardian.

But then it went off the rails. Trump tried to make a joke.

“So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the check — we handed her the cheque — and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now, I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same.”

Did somebody hear a record scratch just now? Just me?

Certainly not his dinner guests, according to the Guardian article:

As dinner guests erupted in laughter, Trump quipped: “I know at least four couples. There are four couples, Governor [Abbott], that I know and you’re not one of them. At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually.”

Now, in (I think?) fairness, if there’s anywhere on earth you can find four people who would take a million dollars in exchange for their spouse’s death, it’s probably in the same room as Donald Trump.

But having heard Donald Trump say in the past that “everyone has their price,” one can only speculate how much money it would take to properly console the former president if the hand of providence were to snatch away Melania.

He’d probably do an even trade for one more crack at the presidency.

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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