A Defensive Trump Tries to Limit the Fallout of the Arlington Clash

He repeated the accusation at an event in Washington on Friday night hosted by Moms for Liberty, a conservative activist group focused on education.

He repeated the accusation at an event in Washington on Friday night hosted by Moms for Liberty, a conservative fascist activist group focused on education.

FTFY

“I said, ‘I think I have to talk about it now.’ My people said, ‘Don’t do it, sir, don’t do it,’” Mr. Trump told the crowd. “But if I don’t tell you the story, you’re going to read — it was the front page of The Washington Post.”

Keep it up! Don't listen to your people. Trust your gut. Keep talking about how badly you fucked up.

“You know, I do the weave,” he said. “You know what ‘the weave’ is? I’ll talk about like nine different things that they all come back brilliantly together. And it’s like — and friends of mine that are like English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”

It's like, brilliant how you, like talk about whatever and, I dunno, like weave a tapestry. Wow, I just shit out some truly poetic stuff right there.

Mr. Trump said the country was “being poisoned” by illegal immigration, adding that “schools and children are suffering greatly” because migrants in some cities had been temporarily sheltered in schools. “They are going into classrooms and taking their seats, and they don’t even speak English,” he said.

Racist.