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Trump just called Nevadans disgraceful, is this as bad as hillarys "deplorables" comment?


by: Ed Mazza
Tue, July 11, 2023 at 3:01 AM EDT

Donald Trump attacked the swing state of Nevada as “disgraceful” and falsely claimed he won the Silver State in both 2016 and 2020 “by a lot” in a new interview.

The Nevada Globe, a right-wing website, noted that the state hasn’t voted for a Republican candidate since President George W. Bush carried it in 2004.

That seemed to set him off.

“I think I won the last time. I think I won both times by a lot,” Trump insisted. “This is a state that is disgraceful.”

The former president lost the state by about 2.5 percentage points in both 2016 and 2020.

But he told the Globe “they robbed the vote at a level” and attacked the co-chair for his campaign in the state, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt.

“Adam Laxalt is a stiff and he didn’t do the job,” he said, calling him a “terrible attorney.”

In the same grievance-filled interview, Trump also repeated his attacks on his own attorney general, Bill Barr; bragged about firing then-FBI Director James Comey as “one of the best firings ever”; and repeated his debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

Read the full interview at The Nevada Globe.

Twitter users were baffled by Trump’s claims:

Trump just called Nevadans disgraceful, is this as bad as hillarys "deplorables" comment?
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