The eternal victim of our time, Donald Trump, wants you to know that he is a deeply misunderstood man. The former president, who incited the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, is offended that anyone would think that he was talking about violence when he used the word “bloodbath.”

On social media Monday morning, Trump lashed out at the “Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation,” for distorting what he said at a rally Sunday in Vandalia, Ohio.

When he warned that there would be “bloodbath” if he wasn’t elected, Trump insisted, “he was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry.”

The former president added: “With the Electric Car Mandate being pushed by Biden, there soon won’t be any cars made in the USA—UNLESS I’M ELECTED PRESIDENT, IN WHICH CASE AUTO MANUFACTURING WILL THRIVE LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!! MAGA2024.”

On cue, Trump’s political allies and media confederates have crawled to his defense—waxing indignant and over what they called “the bloodbath hoax” perpetrated by a malicious media, who took the former president out of context. Even some anti-Trump pearl-clutchers worried that he was being treated unfairly.

So, because we are caught in this doom loop of stupidity, we are........

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