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Former President Donald Trump said during a rally in Michigan on Saturday that there’s “something wrong” with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“You do know she’s doing really badly, right?” Trump asked the crowd. “She can’t speak. There’s something wrong with her. We went through four years of that. We can’t go through four more.”
On Friday, Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan that his biggest mistake during his first term in the White House was hiring “disloyal people.”
Rogan asked Trump if he had made “bad choices” when putting in place various officials.
“The biggest mistake I made,” Trump said, was that “I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked.”
Trump also hit out at “stupid women” as he accused political commentators of distorting his comments in the run-up to the election.
In a three-hour interview, he appeared to single out MSNBC’s Joy Reid and others.
“Some of these women, they’re so stupid,” he said.
It came as Harris appeared alongside pop superstar Beyonce and country music veteran Willie Nelson in Houston, Texas, for a rally focused on reproductive rights on Friday.
IVF under threat and an OB/GYN exodus: What’s next for reproductive healthcare post Dobbs
It was a watershed moment in the battle over reproductive rights, and the two years since have demonstrated how the landmark decision’s consequences extend far beyond abortion itself, altering the landscape of women’s healthcare in the US.
Access to contraception and IVF treatments are under threat. The number of OBGYNs and abortion clinics are shrinking. Maternal mortality rates are on the rise. Physicians in some states are at risk of criminal penalties should they provide abortions. And murky laws are preventing pregnant women suffering medical emergencies from getting proper care.
Nearly 95% of all bets at one site last week picked Trump to win the election
Star Sports political betting analyst William Kedjanyi told Newsweek, “It’s been another week of Donald Trump being favored in the market.”
The Catholic father-son duo fighting for abortion rights in South Dakota
On May 2, 2022, Rick Weiland — longtime Democrat and former candidate for Congress — and his son Adam were driving home from South Dakota’s state capitol. The father-son duo had just successfully filed the required number of signatures to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot, when the Supreme Court’s draft of its forthcoming Dobbs decision leaked.
“We immediately started talking about it,” Adam, who left the private sector shortly after Donald Trump became president to join his father in politics, tells The Independent. “Then we got our attorney on the phone.”
Aware of the state’s trigger law that would automatically ban abortion if and when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the pair appreciated the gravity of the situation. But it wasn’t until two women — one Democrat, one Republican — urged them to do something about it that they realized what steps they personally needed to take.
Trump pushes isolationism towards end of speech
As he began to conclude his speech in Michigan, Trump said, “After years and years of building up foreign nations, defending our foreign borders, and protecting foreign lands, we are finally going to build our own country.”
He added: “We are going to take care of our own people. We will defend our borders and protect our citizens, and we will stop illegal immigration once and for all.”
“We will not be invaded, we will not be occupied, we will not be overrun, we will not be conquered. We will be a free and proud nation,” Trump said.
Trump makes pitch to Muslim voters with transphobic talking points
Trump try to appeal to Muslim voters by bashing Liz Cheney
Trump attempted to appeal to Muslim voters in Michigan on Saturday by bashing Former Republican Rep Liz Cheney, who has endorsed and campaigned with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Kamala is campaigning with Muslim hating warmonger Liz Cheney wants to invade practically every Muslim country on the planet. And let me tell you the Muslims of our country, they see it and they know it,” Trump said. “Her father was responsible for invading the Middle East, killing millions of Arabs, millions and this is the one that Kamala is campaigning with. And I know Cheney very well. She lost by the biggest margin in the history of the United States Congress … by almost 40 points.”
Trump calls US ‘garbage can for the world’
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Trump claims he will move auto jobs from ‘Shanghai to Sterling Heights’
Trump said on Saturday that under a second Trump administration, jobs would be leaving Mexico and China and returning to Michigan.
“We’ll bring back the auto industry greater than it has ever been. I’m not saying a little bit we’re going to bring them back,” Trump said. “And if they don’t want to build their plant here, you know what they’re going to do. They’re not going to sell cars here.”
He added: “China will not be building those massive plants in Mexico. Vote Trump and you will see a mass exodus of manufacturing jobs from Mexico to Michigan, from Shanghai to Sterling Heights, and from Beijing to Detroit.”
Trump says Detroit makes US ‘developing nation’
Trump doubled down on his criticism of Detroit, saying that the Michigan city makes the US look like a “developing nation.”
“Globalist politicians like Kamala Harris sold you out and let other countries loot and pillage and plunder your wealth and our jobs and our American dreams, 40 percent of Michigan auto jobs were annihilated after NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made. And I ended it. I ended it with the USMCA,” Trump said.
“That’s Mexico and Canada … And then they allowed China, in one of their brilliant moves, to enter as a growing developing nation … Well, I think Detroit and some of our areas make us a developing nation,” he added. “China doesn’t have any place like that, but they allowed them into the World Trade Organization – that did not work out too well for us.”
Source: independent.co.uk
