Trump is doing a campaign rally in Montana. I'm going to tweet quotes and fact-checks. Please mute this thread if you don't want a lot of rally tweets.
Donald Trump Jr. is speaking first. "Big shooter, big hunter, big fisherman," he says of himself, to cheers. "That's why I also feel ridiculous in this suit." He accuses Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of being a fake hunter.
Donald Trump Jr. on Trump critics he sees on TV: "People in far-off lands who hate our guts. They hate our freedoms. They hate our religion. They hate everything about us. These people are more concerned about their feelings...than the safety and well-being of our kids."
Donald Trump Jr. warns Montana voters to be wary of Jon Tester donors' "New York money."
Trump begins, as he regularly does, by talking about the "thousands" of people he says have been stranded outside the rally. "I said to my people, why didn't you get a larger arena?"
Trump calls up Montana Republican candidate Matt Rosendale, who says, "Do we have an incredible president or what?" He says Trump is fighting for Montana's servicemembers, seniors, veterans, people in the timber industry, farmers, ranchers, miners, coal workers, and "the unborn."
Trump: "A vote for Jon Tester is a vote for Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi" (boos) "and the new leader of the Democrat party, Maxine Waters" (bigger boos).
Trump interrupts his criticism of Tester to criticize John McCain's Obamacare vote, as he has at every recent rally and several other recent events.
Trump is, as always, highly misleading about the estate tax, saying farmers can now happily leave their farms to their children. Per the Tax Policy Center, a mere 80 farms and small businesses were among the 5,460 estates likely to pay the estate tax in 2017, before Trump's law.
Trump: "We're going to protect ICE. We protect ICE. They protect us and we protect them."
Trump attacks the "clown" who climbed the Statue of Liberty to protest his family separation policy, saying he would not have sent rescuers up but would just have set up "nets" for her, presumably to jump.
