{"id":2334628,"date":"2024-08-30T23:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T03:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-suggests-harris-is-defective-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T03:11:23","slug":"trump-suggests-harris-is-defective-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-suggests-harris-is-defective-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests Harris is &#8216;defective&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-suggests-harris-is-defective-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump \u200cmade\u200d headlines during his speech \u2062at the Moms for Liberty national summit, where he criticized Vice\u2062 President Kamala Harris, referring\u200c to her as \u200b&#8221;defective&#8221; in light of her recent interview following her nomination as the\u200d 2024 \u200dDemocratic candidate. Trump \u200dstated that America \u2063does not need another &#8220;defective person&#8221; like her to be president, echoing concerns regarding her \u2062political\u200d ideology, \u2063which he labeled as Marxist. He also expressed \u200ddissatisfaction with President Joe \u2064Biden, questioning his competence and suggesting that Biden&#8217;s age \u200bhas affected his\u200c capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the event in Washington, D.C., Trump addressed various \u2064issues, including parents&#8217; rights in the educational \u2063system. He vowed to stop labeling concerned parents as &#8220;domestic terrorists,&#8221; a term used earlier during investigations \u200cinto threats against\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/44-san-francisco-schools-to-see-name-changes\/\" title=\"44 San Francisco schools to see name changes\">school board members<\/a>. Trump&#8217;s remarks also\u2063 touched on personal \u2062experiences and challenges\u2063 he faced,\u2062 including his assassination\u200d attempt \u200dand criticism he received for taking photos near graves of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/families-of-service-members-killed-in-kabul-attack-demand-accountability-2-years-after-afghan-withdrawal\/\" title=\"Families of Kabul attack victims demand accountability 2 years post Afghan withdrawal.\">fallen service \u2064members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded the discussion without\u200d addressing the contentious issue of abortion, focusing instead on a\u2063 range of topics that showcased his\u200d ongoing campaign strategies ahead of the upcoming elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump suggests Harris &lsquo;defective&rsquo; like Biden after her first interview<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1742742\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> called Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> &ldquo;defective&rdquo; after her first interview since becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024 Democratic nominee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Now everyone&rsquo;s watching and now we see she&rsquo;s defective,&rdquo; Trump told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.momsforliberty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Moms for Liberty\">Moms for Liberty<\/a> national summit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Washington, D.C.\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, on Friday. &ldquo;She&rsquo;s a defective person, and we don&rsquo;t need another defective person as president of the United States. We&rsquo;ve just had that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s appearance at the conservative conference marked an end to a busy week on the campaign trail, intended to counter the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s rise in the polls before their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/debates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>debate<\/a> next month on ABC in Philadelphia and after her interview this week on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s a Marxist, by the way, people are finding that out,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Total Marxist. Her father&rsquo;s a Marxist. He teaches economy, I guess, from a Marxist perspective. He taught her well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during an event at the group&rsquo;s annual convention in Washington, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That was not Trump&rsquo;s only criticism of Harris or President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> after the latter was unceremoniously dumped by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democrats<\/a> last month before November&rsquo;s election amid speculation regarding his age and mental acuity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t even know the name of the Resolute Desk,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Boy, I tell you, did they do a coup on him!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How did he do? He was as sharp as a tack,&rdquo; he said of Biden during the debate, complaining that it was &ldquo;unfair&rdquo; that he and his campaign spent millions during last month&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican National Convention<\/a> in Milwaukee on the wrong candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also mentioned last week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democratic National Convention<\/a> in Chicago, citing repeated references to Harris working at McDonald&rsquo;s, with the vice president&rsquo;s team defending the veracity of her employment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You remember the story of the bus?&rdquo; he said of Harris scrutinizing Biden for his opposition to bussing during a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate. &ldquo;Fake story probably. She also said, &lsquo;I worked at McDonald&rsquo;s. Turned out she didn&rsquo;t work at McDonald&rsquo;s. Anybody see that? After an exhaustive study, they found out she never worked there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the parents rights advocacy organization through a &ldquo;fireside chat&rdquo; conversation, Trump was asked what he would do about their concerns related to gender ideology. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can do everything. The president has such power. It does. Such power,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump similarly promised to stop considering parents as &ldquo;domestic terrorists&rdquo; after Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/merrick-garland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Merrick Garland<\/a> asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>FBI<\/a> and U.S. attorneys&rsquo; offices in 2011 to sit down with federal, state, and local law enforcement with respect to harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>school board members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;ll change that on the first day. You are not a domestic terrorist. We do have terrorists coming in and they&rsquo;re coming in by the thousands, but you&rsquo;re not one,&rdquo; he said to host Tiffany Justice.<\/p>\n<p>During the wide-ranging discussion, Trump told the crowd he had understood more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>guns<\/a> after his assassination attempt last month in Pennsylvania, that former New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rudy-giuliani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rudy Giuliani <\/a>was &ldquo;right about a lot of things,&rdquo; including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hunter Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s laptop, and that he was defiant after allegations he broke federal law this week by taking political photographs near the graves of service members who died during the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Afghanistan<\/a> terrorist attack in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/arlington-national-cemetery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Arlington National Cemetery<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to take pictures, but I wanted to take them if they wanted to take them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Then I get a call that night: &lsquo;Sir, we&rsquo;re getting a complaint from the White House.&rsquo; &hellip; These people were killed by Biden as far as I&rsquo;m concerned.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One topic Trump did not talk about was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>abortion<\/a> after earlier Friday confirming he would vote against a Florida state-initiated constitutional amendment initiative that could enshrine abortion access in the Sunshine State&rsquo;s declaration of rights.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So I think six weeks, you need more time. Six weeks, I&rsquo;ve disagreed with that right from the early primaries. When I heard about it, I disagreed with it,&rdquo; Trump told Fox News in Pennsylvania. &ldquo;At the same time, the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation where you can do an abortion in the ninth month. And, you know, some of the states, like Minnesota and other states, have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth, and all of that stuff is unacceptable. So I&rsquo;ll be voting no for that reason.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump rankled anti-abortion activists this week and last week after&nbsp;he told CBS that he would not use the&nbsp;Comstock&nbsp;Act&nbsp;to prohibit the postage of&nbsp;abortion&nbsp;pills and then indicated to NBC he would support the Florida constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,&rdquo; he told the TV network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1742742\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1742742\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump labeled Vice President Kamala Harris as &#8220;defective&#8221; following her initial interview since being named the 2024 Democratic nominee. Speaking at the Moms for Liberty national summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Trump stated, &#8220;Now everyone\u2019s watching and now we see she\u2019s defective. She\u2019s a defective person, and we don\u2019t need another defective person as president of the United States. We\u2019ve just had that.&#8221; His comments came after a week of campaigning aimed at countering Harris&#8217;s rising poll numbers ahead of their upcoming debate next month on ABC in Philadelphia and following her CNN interview earlier this week. Trump also accused Harris of being a Marxist, claiming that her father taught economics from a Marxist viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s criticisms extended to President Joe Biden as well, especially after Democrats expressed concerns about his age and mental fitness leading up to November&#8217;s election. He remarked on Biden&#8217;s lack of awareness regarding the Resolute Desk and suggested there was an internal coup against him. Additionally, he criticized Biden&#8217;s performance during debates while lamenting that his campaign had invested heavily in supporting what he deemed the wrong candidate.<\/p>\n<p>During his address at the conservative conference, Trump referenced past claims made by Harris about working at McDonald&#8217;s and questioned their authenticity while recalling her criticism of Biden regarding school busing policies during previous debates.<\/p>\n<p>In response to questions from parents&#8217; rights advocates about gender ideology issues in schools, Trump assured them that he would use presidential power to address their concerns and promised not to label parents as &#8220;domestic terrorists,&#8221; referencing actions taken by Attorney General Merrick Garland related to threats against school board members.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also shared insights from his recent experiences following an assassination attempt last month in Pennsylvania and defended himself against allegations concerning political photographs taken near military gravesites linked to service members who died during an Afghanistan terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>One topic notably absent from Trump&#8217;s discussion was abortion; earlier on Friday, he confirmed plans to vote against a Florida constitutional amendment aimed at securing abortion access within state rights declarations. He expressed disagreement with six-week limits for abortions but criticized extreme positions held by some Democrats regarding late-term abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Trump&#8217;s remarks were part of a broader strategy aimed at rallying support among conservatives while addressing various contentious political issues leading up to the election season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2334629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-harris-defective.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[6733,4021,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2334628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-controversy","tag-harris","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-harris-defective.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}