Trump calls Mueller report “an illegal attempt to overturn the election”

“It was all an illegal attempt to overturn the election,” said President Donald Trump during a speech tonight, referring to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia interference in the 2016 elections.

This is, of course, false.

And, Trump almost certainly has not read the report.

Observations from Twitter as Trump's bizarre but predictably so hate rally aired, below.

C-SPAN is airing the House of Representatives. Trump’s reelection kickoff rally is on C-SPAN 2. pic.twitter.com/atoAsK0keh

— Yello (@yello_zine) June 19, 2019

Trump: As I said on a wonderful, beautiful day at my inauguration, we did not merely transfer power from one party to another. But we transferred power back to you, the proud citizens of the United States of America pic.twitter.com/kvhaSfrBLC

— POLITICO (@politico) June 19, 2019

As if on cue: "Our radical Democratic opponents are driven by hatred..and rage. They want to destroy you," Trump tells the crowd. Which is of course what Democrats say about him.

— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) June 19, 2019

Trump says he will have soon appointed his 145th judge, hitting on one of the biggest selling points with his conservative base.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 19, 2019

This Trump speech is just devastating for Clinton’s 2020 campaign

— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 19, 2019

Donald Trump is still talking about “crooked Hillary” as though Hillary Clinton is still his opponent. If this wasn’t mostly reflex, you could see a certain logic here: no Democrat actually running is currently as loathed by his base as Clinton continues to be.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) June 19, 2019

Trump: They are really going after you...They tried to erase you vote and the election—probably the greatest in our country...They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it. Not acceptable. It’s not going to happen.”

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 19, 2019

....and he's on the acid washed thing again.

— Keva (kay-va) (@Synergy3k) June 19, 2019

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