Former President Donald Trump showed some frustration with Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, during a Fox & Friends interview on Thursday, a few days after President Joe Biden agreed to drop his reelection bid before throwing his support behind her candidacy.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade played a clip of Harris during which she disparaged Trump as she hailed her previous prosecutorial experience in the state of California, referring to him as a “predator.” Kilmeade said before playing the clip: “Kamala Harris has given two speeches now that she is the candidate. They are almost identical speeches. This is what she is doing. She is going after you this way, watch.”
Harris said:
Before I was elected vice president, before I was elected United States senator, I was elected attorney general of the state of California and I was a courtroom prosecutor before then. I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women; fraudsters who ripped off consumers; cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type. And in this campaign, I promise you I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week.
Trump responded, “Well, I think it’s disgusting. I get a kick out of one thing they say, ‘Sir, be nice. You just got hit with a bullet. Maybe he has changed. Be nice.’ And I would love to be nice but I’m dealing against real garbage, when you hear that. They have weaponized the justice system against me. They have indicted me four times. They have pushed other lawsuits onto me.
“It’s never happened in this country. This is like a third-world country what they have done. A banana republic. Every single court case that I have is pushed on by them. They have taken the Justice Department, used local DAs, and used local attorney generals. Every single case I have, and I just won the big one in Florida that Biden didn’t win. What happened to Biden is they called him incompetent. He can run for president. But he’s incompetent to represent himself in court,” Trump continued.
“Just so you know, they push all these cases on me. They’re the ones that started. And then they say, ‘I’m a prosecutor. He is a criminal.’ They are the ones. Every case is started by them — and I’m winning the cases. The big one in Florida was thrown out by a brilliant judge to be honest with you. It’s disgraceful that they can do this. It’s called weaponization and it does happen in other countries. It’s never happened in this country before,” he added.
The former president wasn’t done, however:
They weaponized to to go after a political opponent, and she was very much in charge. She was a prosecutor, but she was a failed prosecutor. She put a lot of people in jail that should have never been there. She put people in jail that were political enemies. She is bad news.
She is a radical, left, not very smart person. She failed her bar exam. She couldn’t even pass her bar exam. It was brutal on her. She couldn’t pass it. She thought she would never be able to pass it. This is what we have as our next president?
Trump has said he would like to engage in a number of debates with Harris, who responded earlier Thursday by indicating she would be open to them before suggesting that Trump had since backtracked.
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