“Could you imagine if I said that "I short circuited?"”

— Donald J. Trump

They would be calling for my execution, — electric chair. They'd bring back the electric chair. It would be a whole different ball game if I said it, believe me.
2016, August 2016, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

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