Calling the radicalization of politics a "disgrace," President Donald Trump said electing Democrat Joe Biden "will destroy our country."
"He is a candidate that will destroy this country – and he may not do it himself – he will be run by a radical, fringe group of lunatics that will destroy our country, and people have to know that," Trump told host Sean Hannity in a Fox News town hall taped live Thursday in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Trump pointed to Democrats willfully allowing protests to turn violent and destructive.
"Democrats think it's wonderful that they're destroying our country," Trump said of riots, looting, and arson after the death of George Floyd. "It's a very sick thing going on. Nobody's ever seen it."
It would not even necessarily be Biden's fault, either, Trump added, saying he will get run over because he gives in to the radicals trying to control him.
"Look, I don't think Biden's a radical left, but it doesn't matter because they're just going to do whatever they want to do," Trump continued. "They'll take him over. He can't perform.
"He's not going to be able to perform. He's shot; he's shot. Whether you like it or not, he's shot. The radical left is going to take him over."
Trump lamented the radicals that he said will overrun a Biden presidency, describing them turning it into the carnage seen in socialist countries like Venezuela and even the crumbling, crime-ridden U.S. cities controlled by Democrats.
"But a guy like Biden, he's not going to be able to do anything about it," Trump warned. "And they're dragging him."
"Bernie Sanders said, 'My sole focus now is to take Joe Biden way left.' They're going to do it because there's nobody in the center-left anymore. He was left anyway, but there's nobody in the center-left. It's a disgrace what's happened to our country."
Trump also rolled over Biden in the town hall, ripping his verbal gaffes made from his basement appearances on mainstream media TV networks.
"He's a guy that doesn't talk, nobody hears him," Trump said. "Whenever he does talk, he can't put two sentences together. I don't want to be nice or un-nice, OK, but I mean: The man can't speak, and he's going to be president because some people don't love me maybe, but all I'm doing is doing my job."
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