CV NEWS FEED // Republican nominee former President Donald Trump addressed reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence on Thursday, warning that the nation may be in store for dire consequences if Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is elected to the White House.
“I think that our country right now is in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in, from an economic standpoint, from a safety standpoint,” Trump said.
He pointed to the prevalence of both “gangs on the street and frankly gangs outside of our country,” referring to domestic crime rates and foreign adversaries.
“We don’t know what we’re doing,” he said, singling out the incumbent Biden-Harris administration. “We have leadership that has no clue how to handle them or how to handle any other situation.”
“We have a lot of bad things coming up,” he warned, mentioning the prospect of a “depression of the 1929 variety.”
“In my opinion we’re very close to a world war,” Trump continued. The Biden-Harris administration is “not respected,” he said. “All over the world they’re laughed at.”
This is “the most dangerous period of time we have ever seen for our country,” he said.
Trump then zeroed in on Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
“We have somebody who hasn’t received one vote for president,” he stated, alluding to the controversial nature of Harris’ nomination that critics have called “undemocratic” and an “installation.”
“We were given Joe Biden and now we’re given somebody else,” Trump said, initially not mentioning his opponent by name, “and I think frankly I’d rather be running against this somebody else.”
“But that was their choice,” he said, referring to the Democratic Party. “They decided to do that.”
“Kamala’s record is horrible. She’s a radical left person at a level that nobody’s seen,” he said.
He criticized Harris’ recent choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
Trump called Walz “a radical left man.”
“[Walz] has positions that are … not even possible to believe,” stressed Trump. “He’s going for things that nobody’s even heard of. Heavy into the transgender world. He doesn’t want to have borders. He doesn’t want to have walls.”
On Tuesday, Harris selected Walz – widely regarded as the favorite of the Democratic Party’s hard-left wing – over multiple other candidates who were considered to be more “moderate” options.
Trump then scrutinized recent media sources that reported Harris was never the Biden-Harris administration’s “border czar,” despite the same sources once reporting she held this position. Critics have called the change “Orwellian.”
“By the way, she was the border czar, 100%,” he said. “And all of the sudden for the last few weeks she’s not the border czar anymore.”
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“I just hope that the media becomes more diligent, more honest frankly, because if they’re not going to be honest it’s going to be much tougher to bring our country back,” Trump warned.
“We have a very, very sick country right now,” he said, adding that the week’s stock market downturn was “just the beginning” and things are poised “to get a lot worse.”
Citing his lead in most polls, Trump remarked that the American people “don’t want this horrible culture that is developing – a culture of no common sense.”
He referred to Harris as “the worst border czar in history.”
“You have people dying financially,” the former president said. “They can’t buy food … they can’t do anything.”
He stressed that many citizens are “living horribly in our country right now.”
“With all of that being said, I think it’s very important to have debates,” Trump continued:
And we’ve agreed with FOX on a date of September 4. We’ve agreed with NBC – fairly full agreement subject to them – on September 10, and we’ve agreed with ABC on September 25.
“We have spoken to the heads of the network and it’s all been confirmed,” he added. “Other than some fairly minor details: audience, some location … all things that will be settled very easily.”
“The other side has to agree to the terms,” Trump pointed out, referring to the Harris-Walz campaign. “They may or may not agree.”
“I don’t know if they’re going to agree,” he said, noting that Harris “still hasn’t done an interview” since being proclaimed as the Democratic nominee.
“She can’t do an interview,” Trump said. “She’s barely competent.”
“But, I look forward to the debates, because I think we have to set the record straight,” he stated:
Why is it that millions of people are allowed to come into our country? … Prisons are being emptied out into our country because we have a president that’s the worst president in the history of our country. We have a vice president who is the least admired, least respected, and the worst vice president in the history of our country. The most unpopular vice president.
Trump then stated that he thinks “the presidency was taken away from Joe Biden,” likely meaning that Biden was forced to drop out of the race by his own party – an assertion many sources close to the president have reportedly corroborated.
“And I’m no fan of Joe Biden,” Trump added. “Whether he could win or he couldn’t win, he had the right to run, and they took it away.”
“And now I’m running against somebody else and we’re leading,” Trump added, again not referring to Harris by name. “I’m not complaining.”
“I think she’s crashing,” he said. “I think people are starting to find out what a bad job she did. What a bad job she did on the border.”
Trump concluded that he “looks forward” to the September debates. “I think it’s very important that we have them. I hope she agrees.”
A couple hours after Trumps’ remarks, Harris wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that she looks forward to debating Trump on September 10. She made no reference to the other two debates to which Trump agreed.
