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Harris campaign responds to Trump NABJ interview: 'A taste of chaos and division'
Kamala Harris’s campaign team has released the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s combative NABJ interview:
The hostility Donald Trump showed on stage today is the same hostility he has shown throughout his life, throughout his term in office, and throughout his campaign for president as he seeks to regain power and inflict his harmful Project 2025 agenda on the American people.
Trump lobbed personal attacks and insults at Black journalists the same way he did throughout his presidency – while he failed Black families and left the entire country digging out of the ditch he left us in. Donald Trump has already proven he cannot unite America, so he attempts to divide us.
Today’s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump’s Maga rallies this entire campaign. It’s also exactly what the American people will see from across the debate stage as vice-president Harris offers a vision of opportunity and freedom for all Americans. All Donald Trump needs to do is stop playing games and actually show up to the debate on September 10.
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Trump is now ranting about “illegal aliens” and saying Harris wants taxpayer-funded free health care for immigrants.
From PolitiFact: Harris has supported giving immigrants who are in the country illegally access to health coverage through her 2019 Medicare for All plan, but she hasn’t said it would be free for them or that it would be funded by taxpayers.
“No matter how much Kamala Harris tries to change her image she cannot change this fact,” he says, and then says several things that are not facts, including that Harris “is the most left-wing candidate in history”.
He again calls Harris a “radical left puppet candidate”.
On the one hand you have Harris, who is “Fake, fake, fake”, he says, and on the other, Trump, who will “Fight, fight, fight”. There is much applause. Trump again claims that many people were turned away from the rally.
Biden is a “bad 81 and he’s destroying our country”, Trump says. Biden is a “phony radical left” and Harris is a “real phony left”.
Trump uses the phrase “border czar” several times, referring to Harris.
Harris was never given the portfolio of border czar, Alan Bersin, who embraced the label as a special representative for border affairs under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton has told Reuters. “This was not the job assigned to VP Harris,” he said.
The Fox news chryon as Trump speaks is Trump: Everything about Kamala’s rollout was fake.
“Don’t forget. Four weeks ago she was considered, like, the worst,” he says. He says Harris has had a personality makeover and “all of a sudden she’s considered the new Margaret Thatcher”.
Margaret Thatcher was, infamously, a Conservative British prime minister.
Trump repeats his well-worn claim that he could have a “nice easy life” but has chosen to do this instead.
He calls, erroneously, Kamala Harris a “puppet candidate” who was “installed by the democrats”.
He says that $6m have been raised in a GoFundMe for Comperatore.
He says, that Corey’s wife said, “‘I’d rather have my husband’”.
“Isn’t that good? I know a lot of wives who wouldn’t say that,” he says. He holds a very brief moment of silence. Then says “that’s the most quiet I have ever heard an arena”.
He is naming the people injured and killed at the rally. He thanks the doctor who attended to Corey Comperatore, who died in the shooting.
He names the people injured.
“They’re doing really well. They’re going to be fine. Not going to be perfect, really, but who is?” he says.
Trump says he will go back to Butler, the city where the assassination attempt took place. He thanks everyone at Butler Memorial Hospital, he says.
“They saw some pretty bad things.”
The crowd is chanting “USA! USA!”
He claims that more than 20,000 people weren’t able to get into the stadium. He says “we didn’t need a star”, referring to the singers who have appeared at Kamala Harris’s rallies.
Trump is on stage in Harrisburg and will begin speaking any moment.
