Former President Trump held one more hours-long press convention Thursday — his second this month — in an effort to attract a stark distinction between his candidacy, insurance policies and marketing campaign versus his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been dodging the media since changing into the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump held a press convention Thursday at his Bedminster, New Jersey property. The previous president and Republican presidential nominee stood on the podium with groceries on show, and delivered remarks targeted on the rising prices underneath the Biden-Harris administration.
“Harris has just declared that tackling inflation will be a ‘Day One priority’ for her,” Trump stated Thursday. “But Day One for Kamala was three and a half years ago.”
“Where has she been and why hasn’t she done it? Why hasn’t she done it?”
Harris has been the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee for 25 days and has not held a press convention or a sit-down interview with the media.
Trump stated Harris’ marketing campaign is “hiding” her, in an analogous means he stated the Biden marketing campaign was “hiding” him.
“They’re hiding her no different than him, because I believe she’s grossly incompetent,” Trump stated. “And I don’t think that when people hear what she has to say, they’re going to buy it.”
Sources in Trump’s political orbit inform Fox Information that high advisers to the previous president are quietly aiming to influence him to tamp down the insults to Harris and the questioning of the vice chairman’s racial id and as a substitute concentrate on branding her an ultra-liberal and spotlighting her stance on the border, crime and inflation.
However Trump, throughout the press convention Thursday, was requested concerning the “personal attacks” in opposition to Harris.
“Because of what she’s done to the country, I’m very angry at her – that she had weaponized the justice system against me and other people. Very angry at her,” Trump stated. “I think I’m entitled to personal attacks.”
Trump added: “I don’t have a lot of respect for her. I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence. And I think she’d be a terrible president.”
“I think it’s very important that we win,” he continued. “And whether the personal attacks are good or bad, I mean, she certainly attacks me personally.”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – AUGUST 03: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage along with his Republican vice presidential working mate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Georgia State College Convocation Middle on August 03, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Polls at present present an in depth race between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Joe Raedle / Workers)
Trump stated Harris “actually called me weird… And she called JD and I weird. He’s not weird. He was a great student at Yale. He went to Ohio State, graduated in two years at the top of his class, and all of these different things.”
Trump pointed to Harris’ working mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, saying he’s “a weird guy” and Harris is “weird in her policy.”
“Who wouldn’t want to have strong borders?” Trump stated. “Who doesn’t want to have lower taxes?”
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“You know, all my life I’ve watched as politicians campaigned and I’ve always been on, you know, for the most part on the other side, on the side that these people are on and they always talked about, we’re going to reduce taxes — this is the only campaign I’ve ever heard where they’re saying, we’re going to increase your taxes,” Trump continued.
Trump harassed that the voters “don’t know who she is.”
“She is a radical left socialist,” Trump stated. “But beyond that, I mean, she’s way beyond socialism, who’s going to destroy our country and when they find out, I think you’re going to see something.”
Trump defended his assaults in opposition to Harris.
“I just want to win for the country. Some people say, oh, why don’t you be nice? But they’re not nice to me,” he stated.
They wish to put me in jail. You understand, simply so that you perceive. You understand, they inform me I ought to be good. They wish to put me in jail. It is by no means occurred earlier than within the historical past of our nation. I did nothing improper.”
Trump was referring to his legal challenges–many cases have been thrown out or delayed.
As for his campaign, Trump said he wished he didn’t have to run.
“If our nation had been run by Democrats and it was run superbly, the place we had been actually being productive and every little thing else, I might have by no means performed this,” Trump said. “I would not have performed it if I assumed I could not have gained. I feel I can win, I feel I can win simply as soon as they’re uncovered for what they’re, which is, , radical left lunatics. And that is what they’re.”
Trump said Harris is “going to wreck our nation.”
“And I simply hope the individuals of our nation, and I imagine they’re, as a result of I see it already taking place,” Trump said. “However I hope they can suppose for themselves, as a result of in the event that they suppose for themselves, in the event that they have a look at the destruction that is going to be attributable to Kamala and this, this individual from out of nowhere, he got here out of nowhere, a state that I like that state, however a state that is doing so poorly the place he is the one which signed to place tampons in boys bogs…signed a invoice that boys bogs, all boys bogs in Minnesota may have tampons and what is going on on?”
“What’s improper with us? What’s improper with us as a rustic?” Trump said. “So no, if we had anyone doing an outstanding job, I might be extraordinarily comfortable.”
Trump said that even while he campaigns and hopes to win in November, what he wants is the country to do “rather well” in the final months of Biden’s term, even though he said it “would make it in all probability slightly bit tougher to win.”
“I hope the nation does rather well. It is nation first. I would like our nation to do nice,” Trump said. “In the event that they had been nice leaders, I might be the primary to say they’re doing a implausible job.”
BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Trump was asked why he felt God saved his life on July 13 after the assassination attempt at his Butler, Pa. rally.
“That was a miracle,” Trump said. “God has one thing to do with it. It is a miracle and God has one thing to do with it.”
“Perhaps it’s–we wish to save the world,” he continued. “This world goes down.”
Hours before Thursday’s news conference, the Harris campaign put out a mock email advisory titled “Donald Trump to Ramble Incoherently and Unfold Harmful Lies in Public, however at Completely different Dwelling.”
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) and Minnesota Governor and Democratics vice presidential candidate Tim Walz were slammed on social media for sharing a “cringe” video of themselves interviewing each other. (RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty Images)
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And Harris campaign spokesperson James Singer told Fox News that “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are speaking to voters, laying out a imaginative and prescient of the center class, and letting Individuals know they are going to struggle for his or her freedoms.”
He argued that “Donald Trump can speak to whoever he needs, however he cannot clarify away his poisonous Undertaking 2025 agenda, communicate in coherent ideas, or supply something however insults and better costs to the center class.”
