‘I’m Entitled To Personal Attacks’: Trump Defends Insulting Kamala Harris’s Intelligence And Race
Former President Donald Trump said he is “entitled” to personally attack Vice President Kamala Harris regarding her intelligence.
During a Thursday press conference at Trump’s Bedminster golf club, the GOP nominee was asked by a reporter if he would stop the personal attacks against Harris and deliver a more policy-focused message.
In the past, Trump has questioned Harris on her intelligence by claiming she cannot withstand tough questions from the press and even questioned if she was Black.
REPORTER: Mr. president, as many of your allies who want you to win in November say your current strategy isn’t working, that you need to stop with the personal attacks on Kamala Harris and deliver a more disciplined message. Do you agree? And also, you added more people to your campaign today. Is that a sign of a shifting strategy?
TRUMP: No, I think it’s a sign of we want to close it out. We have great people. Susie is fantastic, as you know, and Chris is fantastic. They’re leading it. Corey Lewandowski is coming in. He’ll be, you know, personal envoy, or he’ll be at some at some level. They’re doing a great job. Look, we’ve taken with all of the abuse we’ve taken from the fake news media, all of this horrific abuse we take. And all I want to do is make the country great. All I want to do is have strong borders and good education. We want to have choice for education. So many different things. You would think it would be the other way. We rebuilt the military. We did so many great things. But that’s the way it’s been for Republicans, and I guess more so for me than anybody in history. And that’s okay, because we’re leading in the polls for the most part.
We’re leading in the polls. We were leading Biden by a lot. We’re leading now. But I think when she’s exposed, I think we’re going to beat her by a lot more than we would have beaten Biden by because he had a little group of people that have been voting for him for a long time. She doesn’t have that. People don’t know who she is. As far as the personal attacks…I’m very angry at her that she had weaponized the justice system against me and other people. I’m very angry at her. I think I’m entitled to personal attacks. 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’ll be a terrible president. And I think it’s very important that we win.
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