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topicnews · September 29, 2024

Trump fires a new salvo at Harris

Trump fires a new salvo at Harris

Washington, D.C [US]September 29 (ANI): Former US President Donald Trump called Vice President Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” and questioned her “intelligence” for visiting the southern border where she vowed to crack down on asylum seekers, the reported New York Times.

Trump’s personal attacks on Harris came from a rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on Saturday, where he told his supporters that “Joe Biden was mentally disabled; Kamala was born like this.” “And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person.” “could have allowed this to happen to our country,” Trump said, linking Harris to the Biden administration’s border policies.

He later described her comments at the border on Friday as “bullshit.” In particular, Trump’s comments in Prairie du Chien, a town of around 5,000 residents on the Mississippi River, came in response to Harris’ border visit to Douglas, Arizona. when, according to the New York Times, she advocated for tougher penalties for illegal border crossers and promised to crack down on asylum seekers.

The former US president called Harris a “political opportunist” as he was surrounded by posters depicting undocumented immigrants accused of deadly crimes. Additionally, he alleged that she was responsible for immigrants who broke the law by entering the country.

“She’s a disaster,” Trump said, adding: “She’ll never do anything for the border, and she didn’t even want to get tough now, other than her poll numbers going down.” On September 11, before Trump and Harris squared off in the first presidential debate in Philadelphia on ABC News. At the start of the debate, Trump pitted himself against the Biden-Harris administration, saying that inflation in the US was probably the worst in the country’s history.

Trump said inflation is at 21 percent and other things are 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent and 80 percent higher than they were a few years ago.

“We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before. Probably the worst in our country’s history. We were at 21 percent, but that’s generous because a lot of things are at 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent and 80 percent.” percent higher than a few years ago. “It was a catastrophe for the people, for the middle class, but for all classes,” he said.

Trump also attacked Biden-Harris on the issue of illegal immigration, claiming that millions were pouring in from “mental hospitals and insane asylums.”

“We had a terrible economy because inflation, actually known as the Country Buster, breaks countries apart. Check out Springfield, Ohio. Check out Aurora, Colorado. They take over the cities. They are violently invading our country and they are destroying the highest levels of crime “We have to get them out quickly. I created one of the greatest economies in our country’s history,” he said.

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are the official presidential candidates of their respective parties after accepting the nomination at the party conventions earlier this year.

The US presidential election is scheduled to take place on November 5th this year. (ANI)