Excerpts from the Full text of former President Donald Trump's Pennsylvania speech, by Donald Trump, 9/3/22
[T]he radical left Democrats… the corruption and extremism of Joe Biden and the radical Democrat party….J[oe Biden delivered] the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president, vilifying 75 million citizens, plus another probably 75 to 150….He's an enemy of the state…The enemy of the state is him and the group that control him… His speech was hatred and anger…like the devil…
Philadelphia…is being devastated under Democrat rules. Devastated….the city set an all time murder record with 560 homicides, and it's on track to shatter that record. Again in 2022 numbers that nobody's ever seen other than some other Democrat-run cities. …And it's heading way up heading up in other cities that are run by Democrats…
Instead of trying to demonize half of the population, Biden and congressional Democrats should focus on stopping the killing and the bloodshed in Philadelphia and every other Democrat-run city in America where record death and destruction is taking place every single day….
There's only one party that's waging war in American democracy by censoring free speech, criminalizing dissent. You see that happening? Disarming law-abiding citizens, issuing lawless mandates and unconstitutional orders, imprisoning political protesters. That's what they're doing, rigging elections, weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI like never ever before. And raiding and breaking into the homes of their political opponents….The danger to democracy comes from the radical left…we're going to stand up to this rising tyranny of sickness, lawlessness. And death….
And just a few weeks ago, you saw when we witnessed one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history, the shameful raid and breaking into my home Mar-a-Lago was a travesty of justice. That made a mockery of America's laws, traditions and principles. Before the entire world…The Biden administration invaded the home of their chief political opponent …on a phony pretext, getting permission from a highly political magistrate who they hand-picked late in the evening, just days before the break-in. And trampled upon my rights and civil liberties…They rifled through the First Lady's closet drawers and everything else, and even did a deep and ugly search of the room of my 16-year-old son, leaving everything they touched in far different conditions than it was when they started….
The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical left scoundrels lawyers and the media…They're trying to silence me, and more importantly, they are trying to silence you…The evil and malice of this demented persecution of you and me…We are being assaulted by … the FBI and DOJ,.. Crooked Hillary Clinton …what else did she do? Bomb with a hammer, smashed her phone systems to smithereens after receiving the highest level of subpoena from the U.S. Congress….the exact same people are sending the FBI storming through the home of their number one political rival. It's a disgrace, a disgrace…they go in and take documents, dump them on the floor, stage a photoshoot, and pretend that I had done it like I had put them all over the floor….then they put out for public consumption, a picture which is seen all over the world. This is what they do. It's called disinformation. These are very dishonest, sick people. Very dishonest people.
Americans are sick of the lies, sick of the hoaxes and scams, and above all sick of the hypocrisy….This egregious abuse of the law…our beloved country is being taken over by the very people who turned democracies into dictatorships and into ultimately, ruination….we will save our nation from people who are trying to destroy it. It was not just my home that was raided last month. It was the hopes and dreams of every citizen…The radical Democrat party, the RINOs, the media and the Deep State have tried relentlessly to stop me and you.
First they fabricated the Russia Russia Russia scam you. So it was a total fabrication….impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, and now the same exact people at Justice and the FBI, the same people along with outside scum, are at it again with the horrific raid of my home.
They just go on and on. …I tell this story on occasion very seldom because it's too sad to tell. But I tell this story because it's very important. Russia Russia Russia was a hoax. It was developed by Hillary Clinton and a group of people….Adam "Shifty" Schiff, watermelon head. Watermelon Head, he's a watermelon head…think how bad they are, think how evil they are. We're all fathers and your mothers and your children are great people, and all of the people are represented here—think how bad they are. They make up a story that's false….they will not fight it….they make up a story about Russia…they make up a story, Russia, Russia. Russia….Adam Schiff knows it's a fake story. He made it up with other people. They know it's a fake…They're so sad and say, "Donald Trump Jr. will be going to prison because of what he did with Russia." Now think of it, he knows the story is a scam. He knows the story's a fake. And he wants my son, who's a good kid, he wants my son to go to prison over something that they made up, that they know is a phony story, and has now been, as they say, fully debunked. In other words, it was a total lie ….My son's going to prison on something that they made, which is a total hoax. These are bad people. They're trying to destroy our country…
If I fly over a state, they send me before a grand jury. "Trump is up there. Let's see what can we do with the grand jury?"… the radical Democrats are engaging in a desperate attempt to keep me from returning to the White House…They want to stop us from completing our mission to bring back American values…
[M]illions and millions of people are pouring into our country…They're emptying their prisons into the United States of America….And we had a statement remember Keep America Great. But after they destroyed it…they've destroyed our country…Our leaders are a laughingstock….
I don't know if it's ever going to end, if you look at what's going on, because more and more facts are coming out, like the FBI with Facebook the other day can you believe, but you know what?... witch hunt…if they continue their craziness…
[A]ll they're good at is disinformation, they put out disinformation….Russia…the corruption and the people that were in charge of that scam are horrible, and they're the same people that we have now. They never leave. They never leave….a corrupt group of unelected tyrants who believe they can wield absolute power over you, with the help of a willing and very corrupt media….the deep state…We have to smash the grip of this vile and vindictive political class….our country will be destroyed …we're going to end up with Venezuela on steroids…
I never knew people could cheat like that. Not like last week. Weirdo. He's a weirdo. Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House, kissed my ass all night….the Hunter Biden laptop from Hell was Russian disinformation, even though they knew that was not true….The guy that came in with that stuff just got fired. He perp-walked, he was perp-walked out of the FBI on Friday….They perp-walked him because of all the things he did. So many more than what we're even talking about. The FBI made it clear that they did not want the truth about the criminality and influence peddling of the Biden family coming out before the election, because that would hurt the chances of Joe Biden who virtually never left his basement winning the election….
[W]hat the FBI did was corruption and election interference on a scale that we have never seen before in our country….the 2020 presidential election scam, including ballot stuffing and not adhering to the laws, rules and regulations of state legislatures, which is totally illegal. They just did whatever they wanted to do. And frankly, Republicans locally that ran things in a lot of states—should be ashamed of themselves. Should be ashamed of yourself. And a guy like Mitch McConnell, who allowed this stuff to happen, should be ashamed. You should be ashamed. The 2020 election was rigged, and now our country is being destroyed by people who got into office through cheating and through fraud.
Now watch, the cameras will all turn off as soon as I say that, because they're not allowed to put the cameras. They'll all turn off. They don't want to hear that. They don't want to hear that….Republican leadership just doesn't fight because in many cases, they are intimidated. They're afraid they're actually afraid…all they do well is cheat on elections…
The Mar-a-Lago raid was a desperate effort to distract from Joe Biden's record of misery and failure. The many disasters that our country in the world are now suffering would never ever have happened….take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our country in less than two years….Did you get screwed or what? Remember, I told you they were gonna do this to you. He lied during the debate. He said, "No, no, I would never do that." The first thing he did practically was kill the pipeline….
The radical Democrat Congress just passed one of the largest tax hikes in American history, pulverizing the middle class, and now you have the privilege of having 87,000 IRS agents go after you. And they've actually been approved. I'd never heard of this one. They got approved to carry guns so they can go after you with guns. You know, they don't want to have guns, but it's okay for the IRS. It's like an army….McConnell folded like a dog…West Virginia is not happy with Joe Manchin, because he killed coal, and they put taxes on coal. Clean beautiful coal, he killed it….Biden and the Democrat Congress created the worst inflation in 50 years, 9.1 percent. It is gonna go a lot higher.
And now they are making it worse with their immoral plan to wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars of debt for college graduates. Now think of this. How unfair is it, how unfair is it all of those, people, many of you are here, that paid and worked so hard. I saw they were doing a story about Pocahontas. That's Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts….They paid for it on the backs of hardworking citizens, and they're raising your taxes. Remember this, you don't realize it, you're getting the biggest tax increase in history….You're getting the biggest tax increase in the history of our country. …
[ B]ut the "Green New Deal," which is like taking the money and throwing it out the window, and it's actually worse. It's actually like taking the money and destroying our country. Because it sets us back. Just like Germany, you know. Germany's back to building and opening its plants because they got so screwed up with a green new energy. They got carried away, windmills all over the place, killing all the birds, destroying all the values of homes, destroying the plains and fields -- beautiful plains. If you want to see a dead bird cemetery, go under a windmill sometime. It's not a pretty sight. It's also the single most expensive form of energy you can get….
See what they're doing with Iran. Iran was dying to make a deal with them, without a deal done, within one week after the election. And now we're going to pay them hundreds of billions of dollars, and they're gonna have nuclear weapons within a short period of time.
These people are crazy, this figure. I mean, they honestly, they can't be stupid. They must hate our country. They must hate our country. They surrendered our strength and our wisdom, our everything. They turned Afghanistan into the greatest humiliation our country has ever seen….We left American citizens behind. And we left $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the entire world: planes and tanks and goggles, 700,000 rifles and AK-47s….
And now we have a war between Russia and Ukraine, with potentially hundreds of thousands, and even millions of people, are going to die. That would have never happened if I was your president. Would have never happened….
I ended Nord—can you imagine? Biden came in and he opened up the pipeline. …two and a half years of Democrat-inspired losses…
Great, great wall….They actually took it away, and put it in a secure area. And nobody can take it. That's just a terrible thing….
Our country is paying a terrible price for the rigged election….
[O]ur highest priorities must be to end the nightmare Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have created on our southern border. That nightmare….we have the worst border. I believe it's worse than any border anywhere in the world. Because no country would let people come into the country the way we have. Right here in Pennsylvania, last year two illegal alien criminals allegedly brutalized and bludgeoned women to death. On a busy street corner in Chester County, and illegal alien stands accused of grabbing a 33-year-old woman by the hair, pulling her down and around the ground, and stabbing her to death in front of her 7-year-old daughter. Just a few weeks ago, an illegal alien murderer was charged with shooting to death a 76-year-old man from Pennsylvania. He took a walk every morning and this guy killed him for no reason whatsoever. He didn't know, he didn't know him, didn't do anything. Just wanted to kill him.
The radical Democrat Congresses turned our country into one giant sanctuary for serious criminal aliens. We protect all of the criminals, we don't protect our own people. In fact, they raid our people….
Under a Democrat, all the streets of our great cities are drenched in the blood of innocent victims. Much of this crime is caused by drug dealers, who during the course of their lives will kill an average of 500 a month. Citizens, every drug dealer is responsible. And that doesn't include what they've done to families of people that haven't died, but families that are just devastated by what happened to their children and to themselves. Think of it, 500 people the average drug dealer kills. I'm calling for the death penalty for drug dealers which will upon stashes reduce drug distribution in our country on day one by 75 percent….We want the death penalty for drug dealers, and you will save millions of lives. You know, we're gonna lose 250,000 people I think this year, you know, just to go off for a second….
I got to know a lot of the foreign leaders and let me tell you, unlike our leader, they're at the top of their game. There's no one in like Central Casting that could play the role in Hollywood, all of Hollywood. Nobody can play the role of President Xi of China. Nobody could play the role. He's a fierce person. Putin, fierce, is smart….President Xi smart….He rules with an iron fist 1.5 billion people. Yeah, I'd say he's smart, wouldn't you say he's smart? So I'm with President Xi. …I'm with him. And I really had a great relationship with him. And then I asked him a question I said, "President," he's president for life, by the way, like thinking as a king. He said, "but I am not a king." I said, "You are to me, you're president for life. It's the same."…
"So President, President, you don't have a drug problem, but why? But why don't you have a drug problem?" "We have quick trial. It's a what is it quick. We immediately catch the drug dealer. We give him quick trial. And if he is guilty, which I would say probably,"… "If the drug dealer is guilty, he is immediately executed. So we have no drug problem."
And they have other countries like that to Singapore, other countries. And if you do that, you know, I'm told this and it's a hard thing to say, because calling for the death penalty stuff, but think of it….and I'm calling on Republicans and Democrats immediately to institute to get to 10, and institute the death penalty for drug dealers. You will no longer have a problem….
We should pass emergency funding to hire thousands and thousands more police officers nationwide to put violent criminals behind bars and keep them behind bars and also leave our police alone to do their job. Give them back the respect, they know what to do, and nobody can do it better, but they're under siege….You're always gonna have some bad apples, but they're very few, and we have a country that's become one of the most unsafe countries in the world….
Trump made a phone call, because he was challenging the election. So they're after me for perfect—by the way, perfect for you. Be very proud of me. Just like the call to Ukraine was a perfect call. The one in Atlanta was a perfect, perfect call …
Pennsylvania, your state's radical Democrat candidate for Senate. John Fetterman is the most dangerous Democrat. He's the most dangerous Democrat. He came to join Congress this year, and one of the most fringe far-left freak shows ever to seek election for any offense [office?]… This guy is a disaster. He comes in with a sweat suit on, I've never seen him wear a suit. A dirty dirty, dirty sweat suit. It's really disgusting. …Fetterman may dress like a teenager getting high in his parents basement. But he's a raging lunatic, hell bent on springing hardened criminals out of jail in the middle of the worst crime wave in Pennsylvania history. He wants everybody out of jail.
And, by the way, he wants to get rid of the police. Fetterman is a defund the police Marxist who's just pulling the wool over people's eyes, who literally said that if he had a magic wand and could fix one thing, he would end life sentences without parole for murderers, cop killers, rapists and other monsters. Criminals. That's what he said. He wants him to get them out of jail.
Get addicts? Yeah, let's put Trump in jail. Let's get these murderers, let these murderers out, put Trump in jail. That Trump is no damn good. He has worked his ass off for this country. Through his position on the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, Fetterman has released a record number of dangerous criminals, back on the streets, many of which have created horrible, just atrocious crimes. He supports setting loose one out of every three inmates in your prisons. And he bragged that his goal is to get as many criminals out onto the street as quickly as possible.
Fetterman supports taxpayer-funded drug dens, and the complete decriminalization of illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and ultra-lethal fentanyl. And by the way, he takes them himself—which would mean death and despair for every community in Pennsylvania, and every community in the United States of America.
Compare that to President Xi of China. A little different, wouldn't you say?
Fetterman openly supports deadly sanctuary cities, and he signed a pledge to ban fracking, which would demolish almost a million jobs in Pennsylvania….
Did you ever hear the statement by, I believe it was Lenin? Did anyone ever hear of—many people would say it with less sophistication -- Lenin, Lenin, I like the way they say that -- where he said the vote-counter is far more important than the candidate? Well, that turned out to be true. The vote-counter is far more important than the candidate, said by Lenin.
And while Fetterman wants to raise your taxes, he is a spoiled and entitled socialist loser who leached off his parents' money. You know, he lives on the parents money until he was 49 years old. And on top of it all, he's too cowardly to even show up and debate….
[Y]ou also have to defeat the far left Democrat candidate for governor, Little Josh Shapiro—who is so much like Fetterman, other than he's about half his height, which is fine. It's fine. I would say it's absolutely fine, as we don't want to tell height jokes. Not here to tell any jokes today. Not weight jokes, not height jokes. …
But he is a disaster for the state. … As attorney general, he presided over the complete disintegration of law and order, and letting things and criminals run wild….There is nothing to stop these animals from continuing…Shapiro supports sanctuary cities, and he sided with Marxist anti-American BLM radicals, and Antifa, and he's a vicious hater of free speech, and a hater of your Second Amendment. So he's gonna let criminals roam your streets, and he's not gonna let you have a gun to protect yourself. Shapiro is also using his office to shut children's schools, and force masks to be strapped to your children's faces, doing unimaginable harm.
And like Fetterman, Shapiro is a pro-abortion extremist, who supports totally unrestricted abortion on demand. Right through the ninth month…He supports it the right through the ninth month and beyond. You know what beyond means? After the baby is born, after the baby is born. So as I said in my debate with Crooked Hillary Clinton, rip the baby out of the womb at any time, and if the baby's already out of the womb, he's there too. "Just talk to the doctor."…
He wants to let things happen that no civilized person would allow. They don't allow it in other countries. No Pennsylvanian should listen to one word on abortion from these two twisted sickos who believe in killing and dismembering babies right up until that that time, that time of birth…
We were in a real fight with a lot of really sick, bad people….Doug Mastriano…he will not under any circumstance allow mail-in voting, because it's evil and corrupt….this mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, killing our country….
[R]adical Democrat socialist Matt Cartwright. That's another beauty. Who said he's all on board for the Green New Deal. Greatest waste of money in history. The Green New Deal. Why don't you just throw the money right out the window? And he absolutely supports defunding the police, and votes with Biden 100 percent of the time, so you know he can't be any good….
Now a woman is with us. She's very silent, very shy. Doesn't believe in using guns to protect yourself. Says anybody can come into my house anytime you'd like. No, no. She did a little ad I saw, her first time, and her ad was something to the effect. "Sure. Anybody can come into my house. He can be big." And she took this gun -- I never saw anybody used this gun -- Boom, put it back. And she said, "But he might not get out of my house alive." And I said, "I think I like her," Marjorie Taylor Greene….
It's time to finally and completely break the radical local education cartel….these people are crazy. Our children are captive to unhinged Marxist educators who are pushing inappropriate sexual, racial, and political material on our children from the youngest possible age….In addition, we will get critical race theory the hell out of our schools, out of our military and out of every part of our federal, state and local government…
We will also keep men out of women's sports. …So you have this swimmer…she was severely injured. She was injured by windburn because he went by her so fast. The wind burned the hell out of her….A person in a man's body. That's what they call it. This is supposed to be politically correct….
And no teacher should ever be allowed to teach transgender to our children without parental consent….
[We will work to] stop left wing censorship and to restore free speech in America. We don't have free speech….The Radical Left Democrat Party…They're against God, guns, oil, law enforcement, voter ID, tax cuts, regulation cuts, the Constitution, and they're against our founding fathers….
The way they win is to cheat in elections….They cheat like hell on elections all over the country, and they're really good at it….No more fake drop boxes by Zuckerberg and these people, no private money pouring into local election offices. And ultimately, we need same day voting with only paper ballots. Same day voting. Same day paper….
Right here in Pennsylvania, Democrats are still trying hard to rig your elections. Act 77 clearly violates your state Constitution, encouraging widespread abuse of mail-in ballots. And your radical left state Supreme Court just violated the Constitution a second time by overturning a decision by an unbiased lower court….
[W]e need a landslide so big that the radical left just cannot rig it….We will shut down Biden's border disaster…We will stop the crime wave in Democrat-run cities…These maniacs want the police officers go out and hire lawyers so they can defend themselves…we will override governors that don't look for law and order. We will hold China accountable for unleashing the virus upon the world. …and we will proudly uphold the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our nations….we will teach our children to love their country, honor our history and to always respect our great American flag….
[W]e are standing up against some of the most menacing forces, entrenched interests, and vicious opponents our people have ever seen. Despite great outside dangers, our greatest threat remains the sick, sinister, and evil people from within our own country. But no matter how big or powerful the corrupt radical left Democrats are—and they are corrupt and they are powerful….
We are a nation that is consumed by the radical left's Green New Deal, yet everyone knows that the Green New Deal will lead to our destruction. We are a nation that is surrendering all over, but in particular to Afghanistan, leaving behind dead soldiers, American citizens and 85 years' worth of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world. We are a nation that allowed Russia to devastate a country, Ukraine…We are a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never before. We've got a Federal Bureau of Investigation that won't allow bad election-changing facts to be presented to the public, and a Department of Justice that refuses to investigate egregious acts of voting irregularities and fraud.
And we have a president who is cognitively impaired, and in no condition to lead our country and everybody knows it. We are a nation that no longer has a free and fair press. Fake news is all you get, and they are truly the enemy of the people. We are a nation where free speech is no longer allowed. Where crime is rampant like never before, where the economy has been collapsing, where more people died of COVID in 2021 than did in 2020.
We are a nation that is allowing Iran to build a massive nuclear weapon, which they are incredibly being allowed to do right now in China, to use trillions and trillions of dollars that is taken from us to build a military, to rival our own….
We are a nation that in many ways has become a joke. We are a nation that is hostile to liberty, freedom and faith. We are a nation whose economy is floundering, whose stores are not stocked. …
We will stand up to the radical left lunatics…the tyrants we're fighting do not stand even a chance. We are Americans, and Americans kneel to God and God alone….We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious American nation.