On Thursday at an occasion billed by his marketing campaign as a serious rollout of his future financial plans, Donald Trump as an alternative promoted conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris and immigrants. Trump additionally embraced dangerous environmental insurance policies and rehashed financial concepts that failed throughout his presidency.
“Kamala Harris is the first major party nominee in American history who fundamentally rejects freedom and embraces Marxism, communism, and fascism,” Trump mentioned in a speech at a luncheon held on the Financial Membership of New York.
“You’re learning about this—you’ll find out—nobody knew who she was, just a few months ago, they didn’t know who she was.”
Trump’s declare ignores the truth that Harris has been a public determine for over 20 years, serving as district lawyer of San Francisco, lawyer common for California, a U.S. senator, and as vice chairman for the final 4 years. Harris was definitely well-known sufficient to safe greater than 81.2 million votes as a part of the profitable presidential ticket in 2020 alongside President Joe Biden.
Trump went on to assault Harris for the financial report of the Biden-Harris administration in an try and low cost the financial enhancements which have occurred since she was sworn in as vice chairman.
“100% of the net job creation in the past year has gone to illegal migrants,” Trump alleged. However this declare relies on Trump’s frequent behavior of attacking migrants and blaming them for issues within the nation.
The Related Press not too long ago reality checked an analogous declare from Trump and famous that it was a “misinterpretation of government jobs data” with Trump conflating statistics of foreign-born staff to undocumented immigrants. In truth, utilizing his personal customary, Trump must rely his spouse, Melania, who’s a naturalized immigrant from Yugoslavia, as supposedly “illegal.”
Trump’s working mate Gov. JD Vance additionally not too long ago made this declare, which Politifact rated as “mostly false.” Vance’s supply for the info was the anti-immigrant Heart for Immigration Research, which the nonpartisan Southern Poverty Legislation Heart has designated as a hate group.
Trump additionally used the speech to complain about his latest trial and conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, falsely blaming the prosecution on Harris and the Democratic Occasion.
“Under Kamala the United States is becoming a third-world banana republic, she and her party are censoring speech, weaponizing the justice system, and trying to throw their political opponents—me—in jail,” Trump mentioned.
“They always have to remember that two can play the game.”
Nevertheless it was a jury of atypical residents, not his political opponents, who judged that Trump had damaged New York legal guidelines in utilizing marketing campaign funds to cowl up his affair with grownup movie actress Stormy Daniels. Trump’s criticism additionally ignores his frequent calls for his former political rival Hillary Clinton to be “locked up.”
When he did deal with his plans, Trump pushed to rescind the Biden administration’s coverage to limit drilling within the Alaskan Nationwide Wildlife Refuge, which is supposed to guard 13 million acres and the various wildlife that inhabits the area.
Trump additionally known as for a return to the tax cuts that handed throughout his administration, which had been tilted in favor of the very best earners and multimillion greenback firms. These cuts by no means delivered the financial development he promised they’d when he first campaigned for workplace, and as an alternative generated trillions in debt and deficit for the U.S.
Trump additionally mentioned he would appoint billionaire Elon Musk to steer a authorities effectivity fee. Musk has endorsed Trump’s marketing campaign and repeatedly promoted racist conspiracies on X, the social media platform he bought.
On financial points, Trump has one of many worst presidential information. Throughout his time in workplace, the U.S. financial system misplaced 2.7 million jobs and the unemployment price reached as excessive as 14.8% on the top of Trump’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak in April 2020.
Since Harris took workplace alongside President Joe Biden in January 2021, the nationwide unemployment price has gone from 6.4% to 4.3% as of July. And 15 million jobs have been created for the reason that Biden/Harris workforce took workplace.
Regardless of Trump’s declare that Harris is a Marxist and communist, enterprise has boomed in the course of the time she and Biden have been in workplace, with the inventory market reaching report ranges it by no means achieved beneath Trump.
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