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Trump returns to personal attacks again, calling Harris “mentally disabled” as some Republicans wince


On a Saturday speech that thing Donald Trump call “Dark”, the Republican presidential candidate launched a personal attack on his opponent, the Vice President Kamala Harris. This time, he called her “very stupid,” insisted only a “mentally disabled” person could do her job the way she did, and said she was born “ mentally disabled”.

“Joe Biden became mentally weak, Kamala was born that way,” Trump said at a rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. the crowd could be heard responding with laughter and cheers.

The backlash was swift, with some Republicans urging Trump focus on problems.

On CNN Federal StateSouth Carolina senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham speak that while he believes Harris is a “crazy liberal,” he thinks “the better thing to do would be to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country.” When pressed during an interview with ABC’s This weekUnited States Representative Tom Emmera Republican from Minnesota, speak“I think we should focus on the problems. The thing is, Donald Trump fixed it once. They broke it. I will fix it again. Those are the problems.”

Former governor and frequent critic of Trump Larry Hogan of Maryland, also a Republican in a tight Senate race there, more directly when addressing the nominee’s comments.

“I think it’s insulting not only to the vice president but to people who are actually mentally disabled,” Hogan said. “Trump’s divisive rhetoric is something we can do without.”

“Trump has greatly enhanced Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities,” Eric Chuformer attorney general who served in the Obama administration, said on MSNBC. He added, referring to the former president’s cognitive state, “If he’s in his current state, where will he be three and four years from now?”

After Saturday’s speech, Sarafina Chitikaa spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign, said in a statement that “Donald Trump is finally telling voters the truth: He has nothing ‘inspirational’ to offer the American people, just dark.”

Disability rights advocates also quickly condemned Trump’s remarks.

“Trump has a false, ableist belief that if a person has a disability, they are less human and less worthy of dignity,” Maria TownCEO and president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, speak in a statement to Washington Post. “These perceptions are inaccurate and harmful to people with disabilities.”

Trump’s comments, Town noted, “say more about him and his inaccurate, hateful biases against people with disabilities than they do about Vice President Harris or any person with a disability.” ”.

Since Trump must rotating shaft from opposing the President Joe Biden To counter Harris’ energetic effort, his advisers and some Republicans have urged the former president to steer clear of personal attacks, such as those about his gender and her race. In short, he didn’t listen.

One August speechTrump followed Harris’s appearance, saying: “I look much better than her. Much better. Much better. I am more handsome than Kamala,” and him prefer called Harris a “bitch,” per report from New York Times based on two people who heard that comment on separate occasions.

On Truth Social, the former president amplified the false claim that Harris used sex acts to get ahead, reposting a photo of her and the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which includes text“It’s funny how playing the trumpet affects both careers differently…”

Back in July, in a interview at the National Association of Black Journalists, Trump lied about how Harris portrayed his racial identity.

“She has always been of Indian descent and she only promotes Indian heritage,” Trump said of the vice president. “I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago, when she accidentally turned black and now she wants to be known as Black.”

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