Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Wheeeee

Former president Donald Trump said he feared protesters would hit him with tomatoes, pineapples and other “very dangerous” fruit at his campaign rallies, declaring in a sworn deposition that “you can be killed if that happens.”

Trump’s comments about the potentially lethal effects of projectile produce were made public Tuesday with the release of excerpts of 4½ hours of videotaped testimony in a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege that Trump’s security guards assaulted them in 2015.

“I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit.”

  WaPo
I'm howling.
He added that “tomatoes are bad” and that “some fruit is a lot worse.”

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"[P]ineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that."

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“But it’s very dangerous. … I remember that specific event, because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit — they were going to hit hard,” he said.
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

P.S. When Letitia James gets him in a room for a deposition in her financial fraud investigation, it's going to be six kinds of awesome.

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