Trump Rally at Toyota of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, NH

Here is a typical Trump speech from 24 days out, prepared remarks and transcript side by side. It was Trump's 21st rally, town hall or speech of October, and came at a time when a stream of allegations about groping and inappropropriate behavior towards women were being levied at him. Dozens and dozens of Republican officials had withdrawn their support or were urging him to step aside; the cover of Time magazine portrayed Trump in "total meltdown." Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, was content to let Trump take the heat, and had no public events on this day.

In his remarks, Trump repeats very controversial, but now familiar lines, which push the bounds of what any nominee has said in a modern presidential election campaign in America. He declares that Hillary Clinton "should right now be in jail." Further, he states, "The election is being rigged by corrupt media, pushing completely false allegations and outright lies, in an effort to elect her President." Trump repeats "rigged" or "rigged election" six times. Trump also goes off on a lengthy aside on Clinton's debate prep, insinuating that there are problems with her health and that she is getting "pumped up." According the headline on the prepared remarks for this speech, Trump was to outline his "Plan To End Opioid Epidemic In America," and he did eventually get to that.  -ed. 10/15/16
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Democracy in Action Partlal Transcript >
Thank you.

In 24 days, we are going to win this state and we are going to win the White House.

We are going to deliver real change that puts America First.

They said ...this is one of the biggest crowds they've ever had here by a factor of three. Seven thousand people; it's a big crowd. Here, anybody want [throws hat from lectern into the crowd].

So, thank you all very much. We're having a good time and we are going to do a job, we're going to win this great state. 24 days left. 24 days left. We will take back the White House and we will Make America Great Again. 24 days. This is some crowd on this beautiful morning.  I hope the cameras--why don't you go ahead fellows, show the crowd, please. Show the crowd.

We are going to deliver real change that puts America First.

We are going to renegotiate our terrible trade deals, reduce surging crime, cut taxes and regulations, lift the restrictions on American energy, end common core, reduce the cost of college, make childcare more affordable, and repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

Your jobs will come back under a Trump Administration. Your incomes will go up under a Trump Administration. Your taxes will go way down under a Trump Administration. Your companies won’t be leaving our country under a Trump Administration.

We're going to negotiate and renegotiate and do tremendous deals.  We're going to make new trade deals.  We're going to reduce surging crime; crime is at a level that it hasn't been at in a long time.  The murder, number of murders in our country is the highest it's been in 45 years.  They don't tell you that.  We're going to end illegal immigration.  We're going to cut taxes and regulations.  We're going to lift the restrictions on American energy.  We're going to end Common Core--bring education local.  We're going to reduce the cost of college, make childcare more affordable, and repeal and replace the disaster commonly known as Obamacare.

Your jobs will come back under a Trump Administration. Your incomes will go up under a Trump Administration. Your taxes will go way, way down under a Trump Administration, and crooked Hillary is going to lift your taxes substantially. Your companies won’t be leaving our country under a Trump Administration. And let me tell you right now there are companies out there that some of you work for that are negotiating to leave our country and go to Mexico. You don't know it but you'll be hearing it, but don't worry about it, because if I become president, they're not moving; they're not moving.

We are going to be a rich country again.

We are also going to end government corruption. Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the Presidency – and the media, donors and special interests who support her will do everything they can to cling to their power and prestige at your expense.


We are going to be a rich country again.

We are going to end government corruption. Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office--you know this. You know this; you know this. She is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the Presidency, and the media, donors, special interests who support her will do everything they can to cling to their power and their prestige at your expense. You know it, I know it, they know it.

The Hillary Clinton documents released by WikiLeaks make more clear than ever just how much is at stake in this election.

The documents show the Clinton Campaign colluding with the State Department and Justice Department over the investigation into Hillary’s illegal email server that put your family and your country in danger.

They show how the Clintons ripped off the people of Haiti.

They show the Clinton Campaign viciously attacking Catholics and Evangelicals.

They also show how the media collaborates and conspires directly with the Clinton Campaign.


The Hillary Clinton documents released by WikiLeaks make more clear than ever--and they don't cover them the way they're supposed to be covering it. There's bad, bad stuff they're not covering-- just how much is at stake in this election.

The documents show the Clinton Campaign colluding with the State Department and Justice Department over the investigation into Hillary’s illegal email server that put your family and your country in very serious danger. You see that.

They show how the Clintons ripped off the people of Haiti.

They show the Clinton Campaign viciously attacking Catholics and Evangelicals. You saw that.

They also show how the media collaborates and conspires directly with the Clinton Campaign.

By the way they show how the Clinton campaign gets the questions for the debates and the answers for the debates prior to the debates. And we still beat her easily in that debate. Can you believe that she got the questions and answers prior to I guess a Bernie debate? And you don't even hear about it. Can you imagine if I got the questions to a debate? It would be the biggest story worldwide. You must immediately resign from the campaign. You don't even hear about it. She got the questions before a debate.

To cover-up her crimes, Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails – after a Congressional Subpoena – she lied to Congress under oath, she made 13 phones disappear, some with a hammer, and now we learn 2 boxes of evidence mysteriously went missing.
To cover-up her crimes, Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails after, remember not before--that would have been bad--after, after a Congressional Subpoena. So she gets a subpoena. She said, we got problems, delete all the emails; get rid of them. And she acid-washed them. She lied to Congress under oath. She made 13 iphones disappear, some with a hammer. Anybody ever get rid of their phone with a hammer? Three or four people; I want to talk to them later. And now just last week we learn that 2 boxes of emails and evidence are mysteriously missing. They're gone.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted, and gone to jail for her crimes. The FBI and the Department of Justice created a fraud in allowing Hillary Clinton to get away with her terrible crimes – and I guarantee you, the Clintons are laughing at them. The Director’s performance in Congress, coupled with Bill Clinton’s clandestine meeting on the tarmac in the Attorney General’s airplane just prior to decision-time on Hillary – supposedly talking about golf and grandchildren – is perhaps the lowest point in those department’s history.
Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted, and she should right now be in jail. She should be; she should be. [Chants: "Lock her up. Lock her up."]

The FBI and the Department of Justice created a fraud in allowing Hillary Clinton to get away with her terrible crimes – and I guarantee you, the Clintons are laughing like hell at them right now.

The Director’s performance in Congress, coupled with Bill Clinton’s clandestine meeting on the tarmac with the Attorney General in her airplane just prior to decision time on Hillary Clinton's future– supposedly talking about golf and grandchildren for 39 minutes. Secret meeting; secret meeting.

And remember he just happened to be there; he was going to play golf in Arizona. I love Arizona; it's one of my favorite places, but at that particular time of the year it was like what, 110 degrees out, right. And he wasn't seen playing golf that day after the m--I guess he decided to cancel his golf. Just happened to be--oh, look, there's the Attorney General's plane. Maybe I'll hop on, give my regards to the Attorney General. Folks, there's never been a situation like this in the history of our country. It's the lowest point in those departments' history. FBI people, who are phenomenal people, must be spinning at what's going on with the FBI. Spinning.

Instead of being held accountable, Hillary is running for President in what looks like a rigged election. The election is being rigged by corrupt media, pushing completely false allegations and outright lies, in an effort to elect her President.
Instead of being held accountable, Hillary is running for President in what looks like a rigged election, okay? It looks to me like a rigged election. The election is being rigged by corrupt media, pushing completely false allegations and outright lies, in an effort to elect her President. And you know what I mean. In fact today, the cousin of one of these people...  [Chants: inaud.]

In fact today, the cousin of one of these people, very close to her, wrote a letter that what she said is a lie, that she was a huge fan of Donald Trump, that she invited Donald Trump to her restaurant to have dinner--which by the way I didn't go to, didn't even know who the heck we're talking about here. But these allegations have been many of them already proven so false, and in fact the other one with People magazine, the butler said it was a total lie. Remember the butler. The butler said it was a total lie. We can't let them get away with this folks. We can't. Total lies that you've been seeing. Total lies.

But we are going to stop it. We are not going to back down. We are not going to let it happen. We are just getting started.
But we are going to stop it. We are not going to back down. And remember this, it's a rigged election. Because you have phony people coming up with phony allegations with no witnesses whatsoever ending up, from 20 years ago, 30 years ago. How about this crazy woman on the aeroplane. Okay. I mean can anybody believe that one? How about this? After 15 minutes--we don't know each other--after 15 minutes she said well that well that was too much and I decide. 15 minutes. With the ladies in this place it would be one second and it would be smack. 15 minutes. [cheers] No. It's a crazy world we're living in. But that's what I mean. It's a rigged election because they're taking these unsubstantiated, no witnesses, putting them on the front pages of newspapers. So it's a rigged election, but we're not going to let it happen. And we're just getting started.

Americans have had it with the years, the decades, of Clinton Corruption.
Americans have had it with the years and decades of Clinton Corruption. You can go back to Whitewater, you can go back to the cattle deal, remember the cattle deal where she got a far greater return on investment than anybody in the history of the cattle business. I mean give me a break. These are crooked people, hence I call her "Crooked Hillary." Crooked Hillary.

And right now she's resting for the debate. True. She's resting. She's resting for the debate. She's resting. Well she rested for the last debate, she didn't do too well. And she said she's practicing for the next debate. She called it debate prep. Right now she's in debate prep. I don't know. This is Saturday, that's going to be Wednesday. If you've got to study all that--you're supposed to know this stuff. You know she's supposed to be so experienced, right? Supposed to know this stuff. What are you going to learn in five days, I mean she's supposed to be so experienced.

You know what's interesting though, to me. She's supposed to know it, and yet when she was being investigated by the FBI, which she did on the 4th of July weekend by the way, with no taperecorders going, with no swearing in, when she gave her testimony she didn't have to swear. This was a little different than they treated Martha Stewart [inaud.]. With no taperecorders going, with no swearing in on the 4th of July, 39 time, ah, I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't-- So maybe that's why she has to debate prep because she's got a bad memory.

No. A lot of things are going on, folks. A lot of things. I think she's actually getting pumped up, if you want to know the truth. She's getting pumped up, you understand. In fact we're going to be talking about that in a few minutes. She's getting pumped up for Wednesday night. Let's see. You know, I don't know. Maybe, we're like athletes, right? I beat 17 Senators, governors, I beat all these people. We're like athletes. Hillary beat Bernie although it looked like Bernie got a little bit of a bad deal based on WikiLeaks, right. If you look at WikiLeaks. But we're like athletes, right? But athletes, there making them more and more, but athletes, they make them take a drug test, right? I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate. I do. I think we should. Why don't we do that? We should take a drug test prior--because I don't know what's going on with her, but at the beginning of her last debate she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like oh, take me down. She could barely reach her car. So I think we should take a drug test. I'm, anyway I'm willing to do it.

They get rich stealing your jobs and shipping them to other countries.
These people get rich stealing your jobs and shipping them to other countries all over the world, in particular in your case Mexico. And I know what happened to New England; I have so many friends in New England. I have so many great friends in New England, including Tom Brady and coach Belichik. How good is Tom? How good is Tom. How good is Tom. Remember he opened his door last year and had the red hat sitting--and they said what's that all? How good is Tom. They said well maybe Tom, what did he throw for, 300 or 400 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions. And what a good coach, right, what a good coach. The coach, but he's great; that's a great group of people.

This will finally be the year the American people say: Enough is Enough.

Speaking in secret to a foreign bank Hillary Clinton said her dream is for totally “open trade and open borders.”

By “open trade,” she means foreign countries can cheat us out of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars.

By “open borders,” she means totally unlimited immigration.

When she thought no one was listening, Hillary Clinton was plotting to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

Either we win the election, or we lose the country.

A Trump Administration will secure and defend our borders. And yes, we will build a wall.

A wall will not only keep out dangerous cartels and criminals, but it will also keep out the drugs and heroin poisoning our youth.


This will finally be the year the American people say: Enough is Enough. Enough is Enough.

Speaking in a secret meeting to a foreign bank Hillary Clinton said her dream is to totally “open trade and open borders.” that means that's the end of your jobs. That's the end of your jobs.

By “open trade,” she means foreign countries can cheat us out of millions and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars. That's what she means.

It also means, seriously, it means the end of the jobs that weren't taken by the disaster known as NAFTA. That's what it means.

By “open borders,” she means totally unlimited immigration.

When she thought no one was listening, Hillary Clinton was plotting to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

Either we win the election, or we lose the country. I really believe this is the last chance we have to win. I really believe that. Not going to happen again. It's not going to happen again.

A Trump Administration will secure and defend our borders. And yes, we will build a wall.  [Chants: Build that wall.]

A wall will not only keep out dangerous cartels and criminals, but it will also keep out the drugs and heroin that's poisoning our youth. That's poisoning our youth.

And by the way, Mexico, and maybe they don't know it yet, Mexico will pay for that wall, 100-percent. 100-percent. They could be helping us much more with this problem if we had leadership in this country that said folks, you better help. They're making a fortune with us on trade, they're killing us on the borders, but they're making a fortune with us. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that you wouldn't believe. They will pay for the wall in some form, believe me, there's about 12 forms they can do it; they'll pick the one that looks the best. They will pay for the wall.

When I won the New Hampshire primary, I promised the people of New Hampshire that I would stop drugs from pouring into your communities. I am now doubling-down on that promise, and can guarantee you – we will not only stop the drugs from pouring in, but we will help all of those people so seriously addicted get the assistance they need to unchain themselves.
Remember, don't forget, you were the ones. I won New Hampshire, my first victory, right. [cheers] When I won the primary, I promised the people of New Hampshire that I would stop drugs from pouring into your community. Remember that. I said strongly. I'm going to do it. See I'm not a politician. I'm going to do it. They won't do it. With them it's just talk; it's just talk. And they have people that make a lot of money on the drug business, believe me. And they're contributors to them. I put in--I will have over $100 million spent on my campaign, okay, over 100. Plus we're getting a lot of money coming in from small donors. But I'll have over $100 million spent whereas she, in fact I asked her the other night, you made $250 million, why didn't you put in 10, 15 or 20 into your own campaign. Put something in, right? But she doesn't want to do [it]. She's too greedy.

I'm now doubling-down on that promise that I made to the people of New Hampshire and can guarantee you we will not only stop the drugs from pouring in, but we will help all of those people so seriously addicted, we'll get them assistance, we'll make sure that they have the top treatment and get better. We've got to get them better. We've got a lot of people that are strung out on bad stuff.

And it had a big impact. I'll tell you what, this, New Hampshire I have a lot of friends in New Hampshire, I love New Hampshire but it had a big impact on me because, look at the trees, I think that it is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and when I really got to know a lot of the people, I'd meet with groups, small groups, big groups, but small groups, and I'd say what's the biggest problem. They'd say drugs. And I'd say drugs, how can that be? You look at the streams and the beautiful little roads and you know all of the beauty up here, the lakes, and I said drugs, does it work. And it made an impression. I'd go from group to group to group. What's your biggest problem. Heroin. Heroin. Heroin. I got to know your police. You have unbelievable police people up here...

New Hampshire has one of the highest drug overdose death rates in the country.

We have to solve this crisis.

I have to give credit to my running mate, Mike Pence, on this issue.

Mike increased the mandatory minimum sentences for the most serious drug offenders, while expanding access to treatment and prevention options for those struggling with addiction.

We must make similar efforts a priority for the nation.

Not too long ago we read about Christopher Honor and Courtney Griffin -- a young Rockingham County couple who died of an overdose within a year of each other. Their story of prescription drugs, heroin, wait times for treatment, and missed opportunity in the court system are a tragic reminder of why we need a plan to end the opioid epidemic.

First, we will stop the flow of illegal drugs into the country.

The number of heroin seizures on the border has tripled since 2008.

I’ve received the first-ever endorsement of our Border Patrol and ICE officers, and under a Trump Administration, we will work with them to end the flow of drugs across our border for good.

We are also going to put an end to Sanctuary Cities, which refuse to turn over illegal immigrant drug traffickers for deportation.

We will dismantle the illegal immigrant cartels and violent gangs, and we will send them swiftly out of our country.

We will aggressively prosecute traffickers of illegal drugs, and provide law enforcement and prosecutors with the resources and support they need to do their jobs.

President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high level drug traffickers, many of them kingpins, and violent armed traffickers with extensive criminal histories. Hillary Clinton promises to continue and expand this approach, turning our streets back over to gangs, drug cartels, and armed career criminals.

Over the last few years this administration has been steadily dismantling the federal criminal justice system. Tens of thousands of drug dealers have been released from prison early, including many illegal immigrants--regardless of their history of violence, or ties to transnational gangs and cartels.

Second, we will close the shipping loopholes that China and others are exploiting to send dangerous drugs across our borders in the hands of our own postal service.

These traffickers use loopholes in the Postal Service to mail fentanyl and other drugs to users and dealers in the U.S.

A Trump administration will crack down on this abuse, and give law enforcement the tools they need to accomplish this mission.

Third, we will fix the misguided rules and regulations that have made this problem worse.

It is tragedy enough that so many Americans are struggling with life-threatening addiction. We should not compound that tragedy with government policies and bureaucratic rules that make it even harder for them to get help.

The FDA has been far too slow to approve abuse-deterring drugs. And when the FDA has approved these medications, the rules have been far too restrictive, severely limiting the number of authorized prescribers as well as the number of patients each doctor can treat.

Recovery medications have the potential to save thousands and thousands of lives. We prescribe opioids like Oxycontin freely, but when patients become addicted to those drugs, we stop doctors from giving patients the treatments they medically need.

As president, I’d work to lift the cap on the number of patients that doctors can treat, provided they follow safe prescribing practices and proper treatment supervision.

At the same time, DEA should reduce the amount of Schedule II opioids (drugs like oxycodone, methadone and fentanyl) that can be made and sold in the U.S. We have 5 percent of the world’s population, but use 80 percent of the prescription opioids.

Finally, we will give people struggling with addiction access to the help they need.

Congress has already taken the first step by passing the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. This legislation is an important step.

I would also expand incentives for states and local governments to use drug courts and mandated treatment. These can be a cost effective, appropriate, and humane response to addiction.

I would dramatically expand access to treatment slots and end Medicaid policies that obstruct inpatient treatment.

I would dramatically expand first responders’ and caregivers’ access to Narcan, an antidote that treats overdoses and saves thousands of lives.

I would also restore accountability to our Veterans Administration. Too many of our brave veterans have been prescribed these dangerous and addictive drugs by a VA that should have been paying them better attention.

Together, these steps will ensure that every American struggling with addiction has access to the care and the help that he or she needs.

But, if we are going to bring hope back to our communities, we not only have to solve our drug crisis but our economic crisis.

The wealth has been raided from our country, leaving behind dilapidated communities, rusted out factories, and shattered dreams.

At the center of our economic revival will be fixing our terrible trade deals.

47 million Americans are in poverty and 45 million Americans are on Food Stamps.

We have nearly an $800 billion annual trade deficit in goods with the world, and the worst so-called recovery since the Great Depression.

This is the legacy of Obama-Clinton.

The state of New Hampshire has lost nearly 1 in 3 manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, signed by Bill Clinton and supported by Hillary Clinton.

Since China entered the World Trade Organization – another Bill and Hillary-backed deal – 70,000 factories have shut down or left the United States.

That’s 15 factories closing a day, on average.

We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world.

Companies like Carrier, General Electric, Motorola, Mattel, Fiat

Chrysler, and so many others are moving their jobs to Mexico.

Right here in New Hampshire, I visited the Osram Sylvania plant that closed its doors in 2014 and shipped its jobs to China and Mexico.

If I win, day one, we are going to announce our plans to renegotiate NAFTA. If we don’t get the deal we want, we’ll leave NAFTA and start over to get a much better deal.

We are going to start making things in America again.

As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we are going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 percent.

We will have a 10% tax on money parked overseas, bringing trillions in wealth back into our country.

Manufacturers will be able to expense the cost of new investment and equipment, to help make our country more competitive.

We will lower taxes massively on all Americans – Hillary will raise your taxes massively.

We will become the great jobs magnet of the world.

Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing onto our shores.

Here are some of the amazing things we are going to do for our country starting in 2017:

We are going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan; eliminate every unnecessary regulation; defend religious liberty; reduce the cost of tuition; rebuild our depleted military and take care of our vets; repeal and replace Obamacare; save the 2nd amendment; and appoint Justices to the Supreme Court who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

You have 24 days to make every dream you ever dreamed of for your country come true.

On November 8th, the arrogance of Washington D.C. will come face to face with the righteous verdict of the American voter.

I am going to fight for every citizen, of every background, from every stretch of this nation – and I am going to fight to bring us all together as Americans.

Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as One People, under One God, saluting One American Flag.

You’re going to look back at this rally for the rest of your life. You’re going to remember this day. This is a movement like you’ve never seen before. We’re going to make history together. You’re going to look back at this election, and say this is by far the most important vote I’ve ever cast for anyone at any time.

Once again, we are going to have a government of, by and for the people.

We Will Make America Wealthy Again.

We Will Make America Strong Again.

We Will Make America Safe Again.

And We Are Going To Make America Great Again.







Correct The Record (Pro-Clinton)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                                               

Saturday, October 15, 2016           


CONTACT: Elizabeth Shappell / Lizzy Price

CTR Statement on Trump’s Portsmouth, New Hampshire Rally


Washington, D.C.--Today, Correct The Record President Brad Woodhouse released the following statement after Donald Trump’s rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.


“Donald Trump continues to defy the odds, finding ways to go even lower in his campaign for president. At a rally in New Hampshire today, Trump announced his latest unhinged idea, suggesting drug testing the candidates before the next presidential debate. This is a completely outrageous statement that further proves he can’t help but peddle more conspiracy theories about his opponent’s health. He also continued his rigged election rhetoric which is dangerous and undermines our democracy and the election process. What else should we expect from a Breitbart-run campaign? It’s been the week from hell for Trump, and his scorched earth approach to the past seven days has everyone wondering: what is rock bottom for Donald Trump?”


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