Laura Ingraham’s question about future elections leads to bizarre response from Donald Trump
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Citation From the July 29, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): They're also attacking you for other ridiculous reasons. They're saying that you said to a crowd of Christians that they won't have to vote in the future.
DONALD TRUMP (GUEST): Yeah. Let me say what I mean by that. I had a tremendous crowd, speaking to Christians. I mean, this was a crowd that liked me a lot. I think I'm in 97% or something. And they're treated very badly by this administration, okay? Catholics are treated unbelievably, they're like persecuted. And if I might say, before I go into the other, Jewish people, if you're Jewish and you vote for Biden or the Democrats or Kamala or whoever's going to run, I guess it's going to be her.
But, if you voted for her or the Democrats, you should have your head examined because nobody's ever been treated so badly by this -- this administration is destroying Israel, etcetera, etcetera. So, with respect to like a statement like I made, that statement is very simple. I said, "Vote for me, you're not going to have to do it ever again." That's true. Because we have to get the vote out. Christians are not known as a big voting group. They don't vote. And I'm explaining that to them. "You never vote. This time, vote." I'll straighten out the country, you won't have to vote anymore. I won't need your vote. You can go back to --
INGRAHAM: Well, you don't meant you have to vote for you because you have four years in office?
TRUMP: Look, look, Christians are known -- do you know who else doesn't vote? Gun owners don't vote.
INGRAHAM: Just to be clear, what you're saying though, what you're not saying -- it's being interpreted as you are not surprised to hear by the left as, "Well, they're never going to have another election. He's saying there's a --"
TRUMP: Ah okay, first time I've even heard that.
INGRAHAM: So, can you even respond to that?
TRUMP: I said Christians, I started off by saying just so you understand, "You never vote." Christians do not vote well. They vote in very small percentages. Why? I don't know. Maybe they're disappointed in things that are happening but for a long time. I say, "You don't vote." I'm saying, "Go out. You must vote." November 5th is going to be the most important election in the history of our country, whether you vote early or not. We should have, by the way, one-day voting, we should have voter I.D., we should have proof of citizenship, and we should have paper ballots, okay?
That's what we should have, but we don't have that. But I said to the Christians in the room, thousands of them. I said typically Christians do not vote. Why it is, I don't know, you're rebellious. Something's going on. Don't worry about the future. Vote on -- you have to vote on November 5th. After that, you don't have to worry about voting anymore. I don't care because we're going to fix the -- the country will be fixed and we won't even need your vote anymore because frankly, we will have such love, if you don't want to vote anymore, that's okay. And I think everybody understood it. I didn't know there was any --
INGRAHAM: Because it's the constant refrain, I mean, after they have done all the things that we've talked about.
TRUMP: Horrible.