September 9, 2024

Donald Trump

Harris ad features former Trump aides condemning him

Intenational Business Times -  Former President Donald Trump, 78, indicated at a Wisconsin campaign rally Saturday that "people in their 80s" are too frail to competently sign documents. He threw out the comment as he railed about the elderly being called on to apparently sign voting attestations or witness statements in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's investigation into election interference in Georgia. Trump would be 80 years old in the middle of his term if he wins the White House in November, and would likely be signing lots of very important documents. 

Salon - Speaking at a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday, the Republican nominee falsely claimed that "crime is through the roof" — it is near a 50-year low following a spike when he was president — and that it will get worse. "You haven't seen the migrant crime yet," he claimed. "It started, and it's vicious, but you haven't seen the extent of it yet." In fact, immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than native-born US citizens, according to a study of 150 years of U.S. Census data. Cities that have seen the largest increase in migrants, including New York City and Philadelphia, have seen that influx accompanied by plummeting rates of violent crime. But Trump, who has long lied about the connection between immigrants and crime, claiming that foreigners are "poisoning the blood of the country," told supporters that asylum-seekers are taking over the country. 

Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump -   “It’s deeply disturbing that somebody as unhinged and incoherent as Donald is allowed to run for the presidency in the first place (and that leaves aside all of the other disqualifying things about him)....

“On any given day, he is demonstrably untethered from reality—and it often seems that the reason the warning lights aren’t constantly flashing red is because nobody covering him expects otherwise... “Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing.”

She also described Donald Trump as a “frightened, desperate man” whose “continued freedom might well depend on his ability to get back into the White House so he can make the still-pending federal cases against him disappear.”

“We deserve to be told that there’s a maniac on the loose.”

NY Post -  Former President George W. Bush will not endorse any candidate ahead of the 2024 presidential election while his former vice president Dick Cheney publicly threw his support behind Kamala Harris. “No,” Bush and his wife Laura answered when asked if they were endorsing anyone for the White House race on Nov. 5, according to NBC News. “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.”

The former Republican president’s refusal to endorse anyone in the upcoming election follows a similar trend he used in the previous two races. In the 2016 election, Bush voted straight Republican on the ticket but left the presidential line empty — opting not to vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

 

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