WASHINGTON: The US Presidential elections took an ugly and ominous turn this weekend with MAGA Supremo Donald Trump calling Democratic candidate Kamala Harris "mentally impaired" and demanding she should be disqualified for letting in foreign criminals into the country to win the elections.
Trump made a series of wild and unsubstantiated charges at a rally in Wisconsin and a college football game he attended in Alabama, doubling down on his racist rhetoric and taking political discourse into unchartered territory.
'Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way...And if you think about it only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country," Trump told a fanboy interviewer who egged him on the sidelines of a game where 100,000 spectators gave him a raucous reception when he was shown on the jumbotron.
The Harris campaign in turn trolled him with an ad that called him a "loser" for running away from a second debate after he self-destructed in the first, which he maintains he won.
Trump has previously called Harris 'crazy,' 'nuts' and 'dumb as a rock,' and endorsed allegations that she is successful only because she slept her way to the top. He has claimed that the Jamaican-Indian origin vice president conveniently adopted a black heritage recently for electoral gains.
But his latest line of attack suggesting that she should not be allowed to run on grounds of mental disability, coming amid growing legal challenges to the poll process in places where Democrats are expected to win, marks sinister turn in the most fractious US election in modern history.
Trump's ramped up attack on Harris, including personal denigration, was triggered by new data purportedly provided by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official to a Republican lawmaker, which showed more than 650,000 non-citizens with criminal history, including some 13,000 individuals accused or convicted of homicide, are currently in the US.
“As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket —13,099 criminally convicted MURDERS. Americans deserve to be SAFE in our own communities, "Congressman Tony Gonzales, who represents a border district in Texas, tweeted.
The data was made public just before Harris went to visit the border in Arizona to make the case that having staunched the migrant crossing, she will get tougher on the border issue, and it is Trump who is sabotaging it for electoral gains. She has repeatedly said Trump wants to run on a problem rather than work toward a solution, pointing to the former President spiking immigration and border legislation proposed by lawmakers from the Republican Party.
“Nobody who has allowed this to happen to our Country is fit to be President of the United States! Bad timing for her to show up to the Border today, after not going for four years. Why didn’t she release these numbers earlier?” Trump asked, as the MAGA echo-chamber went into overdrive with the new data. MAGA commentators accusing the liberal media of downplaying the data, amid questions from the latter about its authenticity and the timing of the release, which appeared to indicate a divide even among immigration officials
Trump made a series of wild and unsubstantiated charges at a rally in Wisconsin and a college football game he attended in Alabama, doubling down on his racist rhetoric and taking political discourse into unchartered territory.
'Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way...And if you think about it only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country," Trump told a fanboy interviewer who egged him on the sidelines of a game where 100,000 spectators gave him a raucous reception when he was shown on the jumbotron.
The Harris campaign in turn trolled him with an ad that called him a "loser" for running away from a second debate after he self-destructed in the first, which he maintains he won.
Trump has previously called Harris 'crazy,' 'nuts' and 'dumb as a rock,' and endorsed allegations that she is successful only because she slept her way to the top. He has claimed that the Jamaican-Indian origin vice president conveniently adopted a black heritage recently for electoral gains.
But his latest line of attack suggesting that she should not be allowed to run on grounds of mental disability, coming amid growing legal challenges to the poll process in places where Democrats are expected to win, marks sinister turn in the most fractious US election in modern history.
Trump's ramped up attack on Harris, including personal denigration, was triggered by new data purportedly provided by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official to a Republican lawmaker, which showed more than 650,000 non-citizens with criminal history, including some 13,000 individuals accused or convicted of homicide, are currently in the US.
“As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket —13,099 criminally convicted MURDERS. Americans deserve to be SAFE in our own communities, "Congressman Tony Gonzales, who represents a border district in Texas, tweeted.
As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket—13,099 criminally convicted MURDERS!
— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) September 27, 2024
Americans deserve to be SAFE in our own communities. pic.twitter.com/fIoCAduJ9M
The data was made public just before Harris went to visit the border in Arizona to make the case that having staunched the migrant crossing, she will get tougher on the border issue, and it is Trump who is sabotaging it for electoral gains. She has repeatedly said Trump wants to run on a problem rather than work toward a solution, pointing to the former President spiking immigration and border legislation proposed by lawmakers from the Republican Party.
“Nobody who has allowed this to happen to our Country is fit to be President of the United States! Bad timing for her to show up to the Border today, after not going for four years. Why didn’t she release these numbers earlier?” Trump asked, as the MAGA echo-chamber went into overdrive with the new data. MAGA commentators accusing the liberal media of downplaying the data, amid questions from the latter about its authenticity and the timing of the release, which appeared to indicate a divide even among immigration officials
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