In a speech to Republicans during a House GOP retreat, Donald Trump expressed his fears about what “mean” Democrats will do if they take control of Congress after the midterm elections.

“But you got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be – I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” he said. “I’ll get impeached.”

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“We don’t impeach them. You know why? Because they’re meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things. They are mean and smart. But fortunately for you, they have horrible policy,” he continued.

He then went on to espouse that Democrats love “open borders,” “men in women’s sports,” and “transgender for everyone.” He yelled his latter comment and went on to share a string of lies.

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“Bring your kids in, we’re gonna change the sex of your child,” he said, “In some cases, like in Minnesota, they don’t even tell the parents… The kid comes back, they keep the kid, they operate on the kid, they don’t tell the parents,” he said, adding, quite ironically, “It’s not believable.”

That’s because it’s not true. Nowhere in America do children receive any kind of gender-affirming surgery – or any surgery for that matter – without parental involvement.

He then spoke about being impeached during his first term and admitted that when he found out, he asked, “What does that mean?”

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