Your task will not be an easy one.

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

Good night and good luck.

Hey folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome back to the Lincoln Project podcast.

There are 88 days

for the election since I am recording this on Friday, August 9th. And this week's elephant in the

room is Donald Trump's insane press conference, but it's also the media reaction to that

insane press conference.

What you saw yesterday at Marilago was a callback, a throwback, a retro car show from 2016.

And in 2016, Donald Trump could summon the media to wherever he was, and he could demand that they take him live and demand that the networks all cover him live, and they would. And you saw yesterday, and I'm going to get to Trump's behavior in a second, I really am, you saw yesterday was something I think is pretty dangerous and pretty pernicious. And that is in the year of our Lord, 24, at a moment where we finally have flying cars, you can't let Donald

Trump be on television without fact-checking him. And I don't, I'd love, you know, fact-check any politician, I don't care.

But in Trump's particular case, what he did yesterday was go out there and get almost

completely unconstrained, unfact-checked in real-time coverage.

Nobody spoke into crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin King,

when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything,

same number of people, if not, we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had

25,000 people. But when you look at the

exact same picture and everything's the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing,

all the way back to, from Lincoln to Washington, and you look at it and you look at the picture

of his proud, my proud, we actually had more people. It was a tornado of lies. It was a tidal wave of bullshit.

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