September 26, 2020 at 8:39:33 PM EDT
Subject: Out of town Pool report No. 3, Sept. 26
POTUS praised his SCOTUS pick early in his rally, where he quickly moved on to complaints about Congress, Mike Flynn prosecution, AOC, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and mail-in ballots.
Remarks started about 7:51 pm. He was still going almost 50 minutes later, going on and off prompter and riffing.
“I’ve just come from the Rose Garden of the White House, where I proudly nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett,” Trump said at the top. He cited Barrett’s “brilliant legal mind” and said it was “a little better than Biden.”
“She should be running for president,” he said. He said Barrett ‘will defend your god given rights and freedoms.”
He said Biden’s list would be “handpicked by socialists” like AOC.
There was a steady drizzle. POTUS tried to make the best of it saying:
“Stand together in the rain. Supposed to bring luck we’ll take it,” he said at the top.
Please check quotes: there is aircraft engine noise and steady rain.
On the day he nominated his third SCOTUS pick, Trump said: “Given power the far left with pack the Supreme Court with radicals.”
There were crowd cheers for “Lock of up” when POTUS mentioned Hillary Clinton and her emails. When he accused Obama of “spying” there were chants of “lock him up.” Also chants of “fill that seat!”
There were several slams on Hunter Biden.
“This guy got $3.5 million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow. What the hell was that for?”
AT 7:58 pm, a protester was escorted out by security. POTUS indicated that it was a crowd attendee who grabbed him first.
“He just opened his mouth and we had that gentleman,’ Trump said, asking him to stand up for the crowd.
“Are you in law enforcement, because you are on him!” he said. “That’s the kind of guy I want working for me.”
He brought up impeachment defended his 2016 comments about 30,000 emails.
Other topics: Ventilators, Democrats will destroy your suburbs, trade and the “NAFTA nightmare,” Biden’s use of the “lid,” the “fake news, “Nobel nomination, and more. He said he “got killed” for his prior “housewives” comment but talked up his position in PA.
POTUS once again riffed on discarded ballots, etc., and spoke in more detail than he has about an election thrown into the House.
“I don’t want to end up in the Supreme Court and I don’t want to go. Back to Congress either – even though we have an advantage in Congress,” he said.
“Keep your eyes open if you see any shenanigans,” he asked supporters.