‘After two days of policy-focused addresses with modest crowds, former President donald trump returned to form Wednesday with an outdoor speech in North Carolina, where he insisted that he would not give up personal attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris and continued to sow doubts about the integrity of the election in November.

Speaking to thousands of supporters outside a hangar at an aviation museum in Asheboro, North Carolina, trump ridiculed his advisers for pressuring him to focus on policy instead of on personal insults as he mocked President Joe Biden’s physical appearance. He called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “crazy,” labeled Harris both “stupid” and a “Marxist or a Communist” and said former President Barack Obama was “nasty.”

And as he promised to invest in America’s military, criticized the Biden administration’s foreign policy and vowed that only he could restore world peace, trump repeatedly revived his false claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 and spun them forward to November….’ (Seattle Times)