Trump's White House speech shows he's the real threat to U.S. elections

As a violent diarrhea epidemic spreads across the country because of slashed public health protections, much of the nation sits beneath an oppressive blanket of wildfire smoke fueled by climate change, we're back in a war with Iran that no one wanted, and ICE is actively killing people on our streets. Meanwhile, a grumpy, senile old man stood before the country tonight and lied about many things, including reheating his favorite conspiracy theories and attacks on trans people and immigrants. ABC, NBC and others declined to interrupt their broadcast schedules, choosing instead to stream this White House address rather than air it on their primary networks. This was a sobering reflection of how our national race to the bottom feels like a never-ending expedition.Like a badger in the garbage bins behind a Buffalo Wild Wings, Trump tore into his favorite stale conspiracy theories with the kind of frenzied enthusiasm normally reserved for a day-old, discarded basket of Thai Curry Boneless Wings. The speech was a feast of suitcases stuffed with Chinese interference, the "deep state," and ballots that never existed. Dead people voting by the thousands. Millions of illegal immigrants casting ballots. Dominion machines secretly flipping votes for Hugo Chávez — years after Chávez was dead. Mysterious servers hidden in Germany. Space lasers. Poll watchers supposedly barred from counting rooms they were standing inside. Water main breaks. Midnight ballot dumps. Secret boxes under tables. Secret trucks. Secret algorithms. Secret foreign plots. All this as hundreds of lawsuits failed. Recounts, audits, Republican officials, and Trump-appointed judges all confirmed the results of the 2020 presidential election. Fox News paid nearly $788 million to settle litigation over its false claims about Dominion. None of it matters now though, because our dear demented leader still cannot get over his loss to Joe Biden.Whatever supposedly explosive claims he regurgitates, the point was n