Anyone thinking of voting for Trump over Kamala Harris should consider this…

So much for unity. At least, in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Donald Trump – or leastways his speechwriters – made some attempt to deliver the improbable “New Trump” promised after the assassination attempt.

He managed to mention Biden personally in one brief passage, albeit absurdly as of the worst presidents in history: “The damage he has done to this country is unthinkable,” he said, “just unthinkable.”

This is an example what psychologists might call transference, because of course it is Trump who has the strongest claim to have been the worst president in history (and now wants another shot at it to scrape new lows and clinch the tile forever).

Trump cannot help himself, though – and he was even less classy than usual in the statement he put out after Biden quit. In one short, crass, nasty statement Trump reminded America of why they rejected him in 2020. He says Biden was “not fit” to serve, whereas it is Trump who is the insurrectionist; the man found liable for sexual assault in a civil trial; the convicted felon.

Trump, childish as ever, calls him “crooked Joe”, whereas it is Trump who is permanently in the law courts. He says that Biden only became president because of “lies”, while it is Trump who can’t get through a sentence without uttering some mistrust or hopelessly mutilated fact.

Encased in that assertion, by the way, is the snide but persistent notion still peddled cynically by Trump that the 2020 contest was stolen – baseless, like everything else. Almost needless to say, there aren’t millions of people coming across the border, many spilling out of “prisons, mental institutions” – and there never have been.

In other words, almost everything Trump accuses Biden