In Arizona, Trump Boasts About His Wall and Repeats Unfounded Predictions of Voter Fraud

New York Times logoHis main target was voting by mail, suggesting that mail carriers would be robbed as they delivered ballots.

President Trump traveled to the southwestern border on Tuesday to lift his flagging re-election campaign with a renewed anti-immigrant appeal, bragging about the progress his administration has made in constructing a “big, beautiful wall” before predicting to a group of students at a Phoenix mega church that the election could be stolen in a huge fraud.

In a visit with handpicked border officials and Republican allies in Yuma, Ariz., Mr. Trump sought to revive the issue at the heart of his 2016 victory: his portrayal of immigrants as a threat to the economic and personal security of Americans, and his promise to close the United States off from much of the world.

“My administration has done more than any administration in history to secure our southern border,” Mr. Trump boasted, citing the completion of about 220 miles of what he called a “powerful new” wall on the border. “It’s the most powerful and comprehensive border wall structure anywhere in the world.” Continue reading.

Trump Riffs on Coronavirus and Calls It ‘Kung Flu’ Again in Arizona Speech

President Donald Trump once again riffed on the names for the coronavirus during his Tuesday event in Arizona, once again referring to it as the “kung flu.”

The president first said that during his Tulsa rally this past Saturday, and on Monday Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly defended the president as reporters confronted her with questions like “Why does he use racist phrases like ‘kung flu?’”

One reporter even noted that a few months ago Kellyanne Conway made a point of saying that this particular phrase was “highly offensive.” Continue reading.