we know that he bullies people, but this goes way
beyond bullying - this is just shows how mentally ill
DT actually is - and mind boggling that his cult
joyfully and enthusiastically embraces such behavior
and would entrust such a person with the nuclear
codes!! Just goes to show how unbalanced his
supporters are.
"Trump falsely attacks Harris as ‘mentally impaired’
and ‘mentally disabled,’ prompting criticism
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized
Vice President Kamala Harris’s mental capacity
Saturday, falsely claiming she was born “mentally
impaired” and comparing her actions to that of “a
mentally disabled person.” The remarks prompted
criticism from advocates for people with disabilities.
Disparaging Harris’s actions on border security as vice
president, Trump told the crowd in Prairie du Chien,
Wis., “Kamala is mentally impaired. If a Republican did
what she did, that Republican would be impeached and
removed from office, and rightfully so, for high crimes
and misdemeanors.”
He later suggested Harris “was born that way,”
prompting cheers in the crowd.
“Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born
that way. She was born that way. And if you think about
it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed
this to happen to our country,” he said, elaborating on
a claim backed by no evidence. He called Harris “a very
dumb person,” and repeatedly mispronounced her first
name, an action some supporters see as demeaning and
racist.
Biden’s faltering debate performance prompted criticism
about his mental acuity and his eventual decision to
drop out.
The comments, which were part of what Trump
acknowledged was “a dark speech,” drew swift criticism.
Maria Town, CEO and president of the American
Association of People with Disabilities, said in a
statement to The Washington Post that Trump’s comments
“say far more about him and his inaccurate, hateful
biases against disabled people than it does about Vice
President Harris, or any person with a disability.”
“Trump holds the ableist, false belief that if a person
has a disability, they are less human and less worthy
of dignity,” she added. “These perceptions are
incorrect, and are harmful to people with
disabilities.”
The speech marked the latest escalation in personal
attacks by Trump against Harris. The Republican has
baselessly questioned her racial identity and amplified
a vulgar joke about her performing a sex act.
The former president has a history of mocking people
with disabilities. And he has repeatedly questioned the
intelligence of Black women, such as Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-Calif.) and several journalists, and referred to one
of his former staffers, Omarosa Manigault Newman, as a
dog.
On the campaign trail in 2015, Trump mocked a reporter
with a physical disability which limits the functioning
of his joints.
More recently, the former president has repeatedly
taunted President Joe Biden for his stutter on the
campaign trail. And earlier this year, he discussed the
late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his vote against a
Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable
Care Act. “John McCain for some reason couldn’t get his
arm up that day,” Trump said, doing an impression of
McCain by giving a low thumbs down. The move was seen
by critics as Trump mocking McCain’s disability — an
injury sustained while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The Atlantic reported in 2023 that Gen. Mark A. Milley,
the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had
arranged for a severely wounded Army captain to sing at
his welcome ceremony. Trump was on camera going in to
give the captain, Luis Avila, a hug. But after Avila’s
performance, Trump reportedly walked over to
congratulate Milley and said to him, “‘Why do you bring
people like that here? No one wants to see that, the
wounded.’” Never let Avila appear in public again,
Trump told Milley.
Trump did not mention the devastation of Hurricane
Helene during his speech. He focused much of his
remarks on immigration and border security, an area
where polls shows he has a political advantage and
where he has regularly misrepresented Harris’s record.
Trump held his event in a small town where the former
president and Republicans have seized on a recent case
where a Venezuelan immigrant with known gang ties was
accused of assaulting a woman and her daughter. The
appearance came one day after Harris went on a border-
security-focused trip to Arizona, where she was on the
ground for a tour of a portion of the U.S.-Mexico
border fence and outlined how she would be strict on
border security if elected.
Immigration has long been a vulnerability for Democrats
as Biden faced an unprecedented number of migrants
crossing the border from early on in his
administration. In June, Biden rolled out a sweeping
asylum crackdown that Harris has backed and Republicans
have criticized as coming too late in his presidency.
On Saturday, he renewed his argument that migrants
crossing the border are taking away jobs from Hispanics
and Black Americans, repeating his frequent effort this
campaign cycle to explicitly pit minority groups
against migrants who have arrived in recent years when
he speaks about illegal immigration.
“You’re gonna lose your culture. You’re gonna lose your
country. You’re gonna have crime, the likes of which
nobody has ever seen before. Now, I’m speaking from
common sense,” Trump said.
“Donald Trump is finally telling the truth to voters:
He’s got nothing ‘inspiring’ to offer the American
people, just darkness,” Sarafina Chitika, a Harris-Walz
campaign spokesperson, said in a statement responding
to Trump’s speech.
The Trump campaign has recently focused heavily on
Wisconsin, a battleground state that Biden won by
roughly 20,000 votes in 2020. In 2016, Trump won it by
about 22,000 votes.
Trump on Tuesday will host two rallies in Wisconsin
ahead of the vice-presidential debate. His team hosted
a bus tour through Wisconsin this past week, which
included various Republican surrogates, including
former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National
Committee.
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