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maineman » 13 Jul 2024, 2:39 pm » wrote: ↑

13 Jul 2024, 2:39 pm

“It must be because of MIT, my relationship with MIT, very smart, I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there,” he said as MAGA supporters listened intently. “By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice this? A lot of sha…”The former president then digressed briefly to talk about something he had seen about shark attacks. This very well could come up in the first presidential debate and is therefore highly relevant.“I watched some guy justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry, they bit off that young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were… they were not angry but they misunderstood who she was,’” Trump said.It should be noted that President Joe Biden has not brought up this issue at all and has not taken a position on it.  Not Trump.“These people are cray…” the former president added. “He said there is no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming [inaudible] really got decimated, and other people to a lot of shark attacks.”Trump then laid out a scenario on the minds of many Americans.“So there is a shark 10 yards from the boat, ten yards… or here,” he said. “Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking? Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?”Then, likely referring again to this MIT expert, the former president then came to the climax of his remarks.“He didn’t know. He said: ‘Nobody has ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there is a lot of electric current coming through that water,’” Trump said. “But you know what I would do if there is a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time.* I’m not getting near the shark.”With that cleared up, the former president then turned to other important national matters.  

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"So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, ‘he told this crazy story with electric.’ It’s actually not crazy. It’s sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it’s like the snake, it’s a smart when you, you figure what you’re leaving in, right? You’re bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing.”