Loony: posted on August 6 that Biden will try to "take back the nomination . . . he wants it back."

The lies that Trump has told since 2015, tabulated in the thousands by news sources,¹ have recently devolved into manifestly delusional rants. On August 11, 2024, he claimed that the crowd of thousands at a Detroit airport Harris rally which was covered live by multiple media channels "didn't exist"—they were all faked by AI—"there was nobody there." In a Truth Social post a week earlier on August 6, Trump asked what the chances were that "Crooked Joe Biden" crashes the DNC "and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE."² In Trump's delusional posting, Biden would realize that he passed the nomination onto "the people in the WORLD he most hates" and needed redemption against Trump in another debate.³ At a rally in Montana on August 9, three days later, Trump extended this bizarre scenario, saying that Biden was going to walk into the Democratic convention and say "I want my presidency back. I want another chance to debate Trump. I want another chance."⁴ Both of these comments come after Harris was officially secured as the Democratic nominee by a virtual vote of Democratic delegates.⁵

1. The Washington Post, "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years," January 24, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/; The New York Times, "Trump's Lies," December 14, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html; The Washington Post, "President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days," April 14, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/14/president-trump-made-18000-false-or-misleading-claims-1170-days/; The Washington Post, August 12, 2024, op. cit.; The New York Times, "Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.," August 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/us/politics/lies-trump-obama-mislead.html; Bloomberg, "My Lawyers Got Trump to Admit 30 Lies Under Oath," June 12, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-06-12/trump-s-history-of-lies-according-to-biographer-timothy-o-brien.
2. The Washington Post, "Trump's laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims," August 12, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/trump-crowd-size-false-claims/; The Hill, "Adam Schiff, Gavin Newsom mock Donald Trump for suggesting Joe Biden may take back nomination," August 6, 2024, https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4814723-schiff-newsom-mock-trump-biden/.
3. As cited above.
4. The Washington Post, August 12, 2024, op. cit.; NBC News, "Harris and Walz continue swing state tour with stop in Arizona; Trump rallies in Montana," August 10, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/harris-trump-election-live-updates-rcna164958.
5. The Washington Post, August 12, 2024, op. cit.