Trump Says Americans Are "Tired Of COVID" And Hearing From Fauci (Who's An "Idiot" And A "Disaster"), Says CNN Are "Dumb Bastards" For Covering The Pandemic, And Ridicules Biden For Believing In Science (Adding He Could Have Put Biden In Jail Five Weeks Ago)

Donald Trump's grip on reality, already tenuous even in the best of times, is slipping away.

It may be finally sinking in that in just over two weeks, he will lose the election and be forced out of the White House . . . and into court to deal with an avalanche of lawsuits . CNN reports that without the legal protections afforded him by the presidency:

Trump will become vulnerable to multiple investigations looking into possible fraud in his financial business dealings as a private citizen — both as an individual and through his company. He faces defamation lawsuits sparked by his denials of accusations made by women who have alleged he assaulted them, including E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who has accused him of rape. And then there are claims he corrupted the presidency for his personal profits. . . .

"In every regard, his leaving office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against him," said Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor in the Manhattan US attorney's office.

Trump thinks insults, ridicule, and lies will save his lazy ass. But they are having the opposite effect (even a possibly fake bout of COVID didn't help him), so he's hoping that more outlandish insults, ridicule, and lies will do the trick. (Really, he has no other choice. It's all he knows how to do.)

I've fact checked Trump for more than four years. He has rarely before, if ever, had a period as comprehensively dishonest as this period right now: https://t.co/q3qCgKyMkm

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 19, 2020

Trump's dishonesty is getting worse.

Friday to Sunday was one of his most dishonest 3-day periods of the last five years. He made at least 66 *separate* false or misleading claims -- not counting times he repeated those 66.

Here are the 66 fact checks: https://t.co/2ErdBpnWqH

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 19, 2020

A reporter just asked Trump about his strategy of accusing Biden of being a criminal.

Trump repeated the baseless allegation about Biden and said to the reporter, "And you know who’s a criminal? You’re a criminal for not reporting it. You are a criminal for not reporting it."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 19, 2020

Trump unloading during campaign call from his hotel in Vegas: "People are tired of Covid. I have these huge rallies. People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots”

— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) October 19, 2020

Trump attacks Biden by saying: "He wants to listen to Dr. Fauci." pic.twitter.com/UeRmUyBpUw

— The Recount (@therecount) October 19, 2020

...yes https://t.co/LZyAQugqoW

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 19, 2020

The audio of @realDonaldTrump’s attack on Dr. Fauci is even more deranged that the transcript. He sounds like a drugged up mess as well. https://t.co/NKrQPOeS1Q

— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) October 19, 2020

Trump says if he listened to Dr. Fauci that 500,000 would be dead. Another one of Trump’s 20,000 lies. If Trump listened to Dr. Fauci there would only be 40,000 dead. See below for the 42 ways Trump failed America during the pandemic!
🎥:@Acyn
pic.twitter.com/XHqY4GtSwZ https://t.co/RUPKkd9KkE

— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) October 19, 2020

Reminder: Trump asked Fauci if we could just let COVID wash over the United States.

Without Fauci, we’d be looking at two million dead. https://t.co/DBt98iTFz3

— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) October 19, 2020

"They are getting tired of the pandemic, aren't they? You turn on CNN, that's all they cover. 'Covid, Covid, Pandemic, Covid, Covid.' You know why? They're trying to talk everybody out of voting. People aren't buying it, CNN, you dumb bastards." -- Trump pic.twitter.com/QobvMA6Yz0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

Trump mockingly mimics Dr. Fauci's first pitch pic.twitter.com/gnNtfBvlf8

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

President Trump says Joe Biden is lucky that Bill Barr is attorney general "because I know people that would have had him locked up five weeks ago."

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 19, 2020

"Lock him up!" chants for Joe Biden are a new staple of Trump rallies.

"I know people that would've had him locked up five weeks ago," Trump says, suggesting Bill Barr is having mercy on Biden. pic.twitter.com/kSQzx1j3Jt

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

Trump claims that "FISA" is developing a coronavirus vaccine. (He meant Pfizer.) pic.twitter.com/C4llU5vego

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

"Women. I like women. I like women." -- Trump pic.twitter.com/AF3VyWcSbX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

"Can you imagine if Don Jr had problems of where's Hunter? Don Jr. Oh, my poor boy. Boy, what that boy has been through." -- Trump pic.twitter.com/gquLsPd6Rp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

"Barron. Barron Trump. Barron Trump had it." -- Trump talks about his son pic.twitter.com/Y5XxKKUwHY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

"Kristen Welker. She's a radical Democrat. She deleted her entire account. But I've known her, she's been screaming questions at me for a long time. She's no good." -- Trump disses the moderator of the upcoming presidential debate pic.twitter.com/RG4gV2r10Z

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

Trump again repeatedly brags about the military's "hydrosonic" missiles. He means "hypersonic." "Hydrosonic" is a brand of tooth brush. pic.twitter.com/0wxzHOuMDx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

the dancing just gets worse and worse pic.twitter.com/uqpEfsPlfo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2020

This piece should be mandatory reading for every voter before the election. Billions in testing money unspent mid-pandemic. A WH that doesn’t trust public health leaders. This under normal times would be an impeachable mismanagement. https://t.co/sKvCqMZeWQ

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 19, 2020