Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was in peak form at a Moms for Liberty event last week, where he sounded as racist, pompous and incomprehensible as ever. Is anyone surprised?

Trump spoke for over an hour in a “fireside chat” with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice. Aside from the incoherent tangents he went on and the softball questions he was asked, the former president spent a lot of time criticizing transgender children and immigrants to an audience he knew would be receptive to it.

At some point, I wish Republicans who support this would acknowledge the harmful things Trump says and does. The least they could do would be to cede the moral high ground they try to claim and just admit they're fine with this kind of hate speech targeting children.

Trans people were a bigger focus of the interview, with Trump being egged on by the moderator. Justice said there is an “explosion” of trans children existing in the United States.

They spent a lot of time talking about Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who........

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