PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president in 2024, mentioned presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’s ongoing efforts to flip-flop her positions on a number of main points, akin to power, immigration, crime, well being care, and extra through press aides slightly than explaining issues herself, is not going to work for her long run.
“I don’t suppose that’s going to fly,” Trump mentioned. “She will’t do a press convention.”
Trump’s feedback got here throughout an hour-long unique interview with Breitbart Information right here at Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious seaside resort and membership, on Thursday night. Particularly, Harris has in latest weeks had press staffers, oftentimes anonymously, situation statements throughout the media altering her long-held positions on all the things from her assist for banning fracking to her assist for the novel “Medicare-for-All” healthcare imaginative and prescient that might destruct American healthcare plans to her positions on immigration and crime coverage and extra. Harris herself, although, has not defined if she really modified on these points and if, so why and the way she modified. American voters are left to belief these many occasions anonymous and faceless aides to Harris on her supposedly new positions since Harris continues to refuse to carry a press convention or sit for a press interview explaining herself.
Probably the most egregious of Harris’s many latest flip-flops—which led to the New York Submit cowl on Monday morning calling her “Kama Kameleon”—was on fracking:
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Throughout her 2020 Democrat presidential marketing campaign, Harris particularly mentioned fairly clearly she would ban fracking if elected president. Then, a couple of weeks in the past after having left that as her public place for a few years, an nameless marketing campaign aide issued an announcement to the Hill newspaper saying by no means thoughts; she now not supported banning fracking. The candidate herself has made no such pronouncement and has definitely not defined herself on this critically vital situation to each American power and financial coverage that additionally has main political implications in battleground states, most notably, Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, many in media simply assume she really modified primarily based on this nameless aide’s commentary.
Trump, in his interview with Breitbart Information, made clear that Harris’s views on power are excessive and radical and would cripple the U.S. economic system.
“On power, she desires all the things to be run by the wind,” Trump mentioned. “It’s loopy. She’s going to destroy our nation. Germany went that path for 2 years beneath [former Chancellor] Merkel. One of many causes that Merkel isn’t there anymore is that the opposing social gathering mentioned, ‘We’re ruining our economic system.’ Wind could be very costly power. It frankly doesn’t work. It’s intermittent if the wind is blowing. The entire thing is loopy. In Germany, they took out the coal crops and all the things else, and now they’re constructing a plant every week beneath the brand new authorities. They realize it doesn’t work, and but, they persistently wish to do it. They know electrical vans don’t work. They must cease six occasions from New York to California. Diesel stops not as soon as.”
Trump mentioned that his debate preparation shall be easy, as it’s merely “widespread sense” that Harris is a multitude on the problems.
“She desires open borders. She desires to defund the police. She’s at all times wished that. She’s by no means modified. Now, she desires to alter,” Trump mentioned. “She desires to say issues she doesn’t imagine in. She really believes in defunding the police. She really and completely believes in open borders. She was the border czar for 3 and a half years, and he or she was the worst border czar in historical past. She by no means even went to the border. They mentioned she went as soon as; she went to a piece of the border that has nothing to do with the issues. She was a horrible border czar. Thousands and thousands of individuals have are available in. I believe 20 million folks have come into our nation. It may very well be much more than that, particularly with the got-aways. The got-aways are brutal. They’ve are available in from all around the world, not simply South America. Many, many terrorists have come into our nation. Look, she desires to defund the police, and he or she at all times has. She has helped people who wished to destroy our nation like in Minnesota; she helped them get out of jail. Folks died in Minnesota. They went after the federal courthouse. They went after all the things.”
Trump instructed Breitbart Information that Harris’s historical past of failing as a candidate—he pointed to her poor efficiency within the 2020 Democrat presidential primaries—doesn’t bode nicely for her possibilities in 2024. He additionally mentioned President Joe Biden, whom Harris and different Democrats pushed apart this yr even supposing he received the nomination, shocked him by choosing Harris as his vp due to how “nasty” she was to him.
“I watched her—look, there have been 14 candidates working, and he or she was the primary one to get worn out,” Trump mentioned. “I didn’t suppose she was good in debates in any respect. I assumed she was horrible. She was nasty to him, however apart from that—she was very nasty to him. I used to be shocked when he picked her as a result of she was the nastiest. The folks didn’t like what she was doing. The folks didn’t like her. She by no means made it to Iowa. She give up virtually instantly.”
Trump mentioned that Harris goes to have to elucidate herself publicly on these main points and shortly. He additionally mentioned profession politicians akin to Harris often are telling the reality after they take their first place on one thing, the novel one, and it’s not trustworthy after they attempt to stroll it again.
“She’s going to have to elucidate,” Trump mentioned. “Why did she need open borders and now she desires a wall? All the time, when that occurs, I’ve seen it for years in politics, you might have politics and you’ve got a politician. He says one thing early on like, ‘I need a wall. I need this.’ That’s at all times the place. ‘I wish to defund the police.’ She desires to defund the police. Now, hastily, she’s saying, ‘No, I didn’t actually imply that. I didn’t actually imply that.’ All of those insurance policies add as much as the way in which that that’s what she actually desires to do. She really thinks defunding the police is sweet.”
Trump additionally mentioned Harris’s working mate Minnesota’s Democrat Gov. Tim Walz desires to defund police as nicely. Trump mentioned Walz refused to ship in Nationwide Guard troops to guard Minneapolis when rioters in 2020 have been burning down town to the purpose the place one police precinct was deserted by the cops.
“So does the governor of Minnesota. He thinks defunding the police is sweet. He’s really mentioned it,” Trump mentioned. “He gave the police little or no safety. After they chased the police out of the precinct, do you keep in mind that? He wouldn’t ship within the troops. I used to be accountable for sending within the Nationwide Guard. If I didn’t ship within the Nationwide Guard, I’ll inform you, Minneapolis wouldn’t even exist at present. He wouldn’t do it. We have been calling him saying, ‘Ship within the Guard. Ship within the Guard.’ He wouldn’t do it.”
Extra from Trump’s newest unique interview with Breitbart Information is forthcoming.