Trump goes full Breitbart'Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty,' Trump says in one of his darkest speeches yet.
By ELI STOKOLS 10/13/16 07:05 PM EDT
With 26 days left in an election campaign he now has a minuscule chance of winning, Donald Trump is in full black-helicopter mode.
The Republican nominee let loose a fusillade of anger and blame-shifting invective Thursday in his first speech since several women came forward to accuse him of touching them without their consent. His targets: Everybody.
He slammed a political establishment he described as clinging to power and a subservient “corporate media” — blaming both for the spate of stories detailing strikingly similar allegations of unwanted groping from a number of women over several decades.
“The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself,” Trump said. “The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.”
“The corporate media in this country is no longer involved in journalism. For them, it's a war,” Trump railed in West Palm Beach. “Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe and morally deformed.”
At no other point in his campaign has Trump been so publicly humiliated by the accumulating, damning allegations about his own past behavior. While his campaign has rebounded from countless controversies sparked by his thin-skinned derision — of a war hero who was captured, of a reporter with a disability, of a federal judge of Mexican heritage, of the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier — Trump’s personal brand and future net worth may be irrevocably diminished by his videotaped admission of sexual assault and a slew of allegations validating it.
At no other point has it been so clear to the candidate that he is almost certainly not going to be elected president. Most election forecasts now show Clinton’s odds of winning the election next month around 90 percent.
And at no other point has Trump, who has habitually dismissed realities that did not comport with his own version of events, offered such a clear and vociferous declaration of all-out war.
Trump specifically blasted the “failing” New York Times for printing two women’s stories in a story that seemingly triggered Wednesday evening’s avalanche of similar, damaging reports. Trump said he was preparing a lawsuit against the Times and vowed to discredit the stories “in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time.” And he disparaged his accusers, seemingly suggesting that they weren’t attractive enough to warrant his alleged advances.
“Take a look. You take a look. Look at her,” Trump said of one of the accusers. “Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don’t think so.”
And he embraced the conspiracy theories that drive the alt-right and white nationalist movements, declaring: “We’ve seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. So true."
The hints of anti-Semitism were strong. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, advised the Trump campaign to desist. “@TeamTrump should avoid rhetoric&tropes that historically have been used ag. Jews & still spur #antisemitism. Lets keep hate out of cmpgn,” Greenblatt tweeted.
Entering the last month of a campaign that has always wielded the politics of grievance and victimization to devastating effect, the billionaire reality television star-turned-GOP nominee, facing a barrage of bad press and dimming electoral odds, currently sees himself as the biggest victim of all.............
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