NonilexOne of the big shifts #KamalaHarris has imposed on the Biden strategy is that she leans much more heavily to the issue of costs. She starts out the gate, running at the #inflation argument, arguing that she is who will protect #family pocketbooks.
#Harris takes #Trump to task on his proposed #tariff plan. Trump has proposed a 10% automatic tariff on $3 TRILLION of annual US imports, which would cost a typical #MiddleIncome household ~$1,700 per year….A huge increase from tariffs of his 1st term.
Trump again [sigh] reiterates #ConspiracyTheories that #immigrants are taking the jobs of native-born Americans, including #Black Americans. The percentage of native-born #Americans who are #employed, factoring for structural changes in age, are higher than at any year of the Trump admin. That ratio for Black workers is as high or higher as it ever was during the Trump presidency.
“What we have done is clean up Donald Trump’s mess” - #KamalaHarris
#Trump is now claiming he has NOTHING to do with #Project2025. That’s not quite true, but it makes sense he wants to disavow it. Democrats have successfully weaponized Project 2025 against Trump.
#KamalaHarris seems sort of amused with Trump’s last response. She smiled when he said he hadn’t read Project 2025.
Trump again tries to say he set off a #StockMarket boom 🤣, arguing that the market was higher when he left office than it was when the pandemic hit. An irony there, however, is that it is significantly higher now under #BidenHarris than it EVER was at ANY point of the Trump administration.
“Not true. Not true,” #KamalaHarris mouths, raising her hand during a #Trump assertion about chips and the U.S. relationship with China. She knows her mic is muted, but that the camera is on her.
#Harris goes after #Trump on #China policy. (We knew this was coming.) “This deal with China… He ended up selling American chips to China to help them improve and modernize their military — basically sold us out… when a policy about China should be in making sure the United States of America wins the competition for the 21st century.”
#KamalaHarris is attacking #Trump’s record on covid which was shit at best. He was often dismissive of what #PublicHealth experts suggested, and his administration made a number of major mistakes. She’s also attacking him for praising President Xi Jinping of China and taking a soft tack with him at the beginning of covid. As reported at the time, that’s true — his advisers begged him to take a harder line on Xi.
#Border #FactCheck #TrumpLies: The number of migrants crossing the southern border illegally is about 60,000 per month, the lowest level in four years
#Trump is questioned on his #abortion track record — bragging about overturning #RoeVWade, then claiming his administration would be “great for women & their reproductive rights.”
Trump just mixed up the states of West Virginia & Virginia as part of his abortion answer.
#KamalaHarris’s mic is muted, but you can clearly see her shake her said and say “that’s not true” when Trump falsely claims her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, supports abortion in the ninth month.
#Trump is claiming that #Democrats support executing babies after birth, which is NOT true. That’s illegal everywhere. We are hearing versions of this false claim a lot from #Republicans.
Even though the mics are muted, #KamalaHarris is trying to fact-check Trump in real time. Harris just said “that’s not true” as Trump talked about abortion.
Best #FactCheck of the night from ABC’s Linsey Davis: “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
After #Trump spent much of his answer repeating the #lie that Democratic states allow killing babies after they’re born, #Harris explains current legal limits on #abortion.
This is a very strong & passionate answer on abortion from #KamalaHarris, really summing up how the bans have impacted #women since #Roe was overturned, & tying Trump closely to those bans.
#Trump repeatedly dodges the answer on whether he’d veto a #NationalAbortionBan. #JDVance said a few weeks ago that he would veto one if it came across his desk.
Trump basically saying: “JD Vance doesn’t speak for me.”
Trump often references stmnts from a fmr Virginia governor (Trump mixed it up w/West Virginia) to support his false claims that Democrats support killing babies. The VA gov’s comments were about how doctors handle rare cases where the fetus is not viable.
#Trump is likely very happy to have the conversation move from #abortion to #immigration. Except…
#KamalaHarris says she supports the bipartisan Senate #border bill that Trump basically torpedoed last winter, saying he didn’t want to give the administration a policy win.
Harris says Trump preferred to “run on the problems” at the border rather than trying to fix them with the border bill.
#HannibalLecter has made his first presidential #debate appearance. ← sentence I never thought I’d write.
Trump loves to claim other nations are sending patients from mental institutions to the US (no evidence of this). But who would have thought Harris would be the first to mention Hannibal Lecter! #AsylumSeekers aren’t looking for #InsaneAsylums dumbass.
This is the second time the ABC moderators have fact checked Trump’s false claims this time regarding crime stats under #BidenHarris
This seems an effort by #Harris to get under #Trump’s skin: “People start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.” And it works: instead of answering a question on immigration, Trump starts going off about how many people go to his rallies.
Dude, #Trump is literally spouting the ridiculous #ConspiracyTheory that #immigrants are eating cats & dogs, but doesn’t get distracted.
Again, ABC does a #FactCheck on this nonsense.
#Harris pivots to name drop all the #Republicans who are now backing her, including former vice president #DickCheney.
#Trump, Mr. #Insecurity, is driven totally crazy when #Democrats bring up his fmr advisers who have turned on him, particularly #JohnKelly, his fmr chief of staff. #KamalaHarris is doing just that tonight -- bringing up all the former administration officials who have spoken out against Trump.
Whiny baby says, “I fired most of those people, not so graciously” 🙄
#Trump falsely claims he got more votes than “any president in history by far” during the 2020 election.
#JoeBiden got 7 million more votes than Trump in 2020. Trump also lost the popular vote to #HillaryClinton in 2016. [#FuckTheElectoralCollege #PeopleVoteLandDoesNot]
#Trump keeps coming back to #Venezuela #crime rates, which he claims have declined. This has NO BASIS IN #REALITY. Caracas remains one of the world’s most dangerous cities.
He is simply a #Maduro wannabe.
The violent crime #FactCheck by David Muir is 4th time ABC moderators have had to correct Trump.
#Trump is still refusing to look at #KamalaHarris while she speaks.
#KamalaHarris goes after #Trump’s #criminal charges and cases in a way Biden never did. Trump looked annoyed but didn’t say anything as she listed out his #felony #convictions & his various cases, including that he was found liable for a #SexualAssault in #NewYork. Now, he tries to fire back & claims #Harris & #Biden are responsible for the federal & state charges, with NO evidence.
Obviously getting #desperate now, #Trump goes for the #pity play:
Bringing up his assassination attempt & the BS weaponization of the government: “I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they say about me.”
give me a fucking break loser.
#Trump looks annoyed as #KamalaHarris said he would terminate the #Constitution. Trump literally said [in a statement full of #lies & #disinformation], “A Massive Fraud of this type & magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, & articles, even those found in the Constitution," said in 2022, stunning his advisers.
#KamalaHarris mentioned that #Trump’s father gave him a big #inheritance — $400 million — & that his companies repeatedly have filed for bankruptcy.
Trump defensively: “I wasn’t giving $400 million, I wish I was,” he said. “I was given a fraction of that, a tiny fraction of that.”
At last, #Trump is questioned about why he sat by for hours as his supporters stormed the Capitol on #Jan6. He didn’t answer that part of the question & instead moved to other topics.
Trump says “nobody died” on Jan 6, 2021, after describing the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Police. Multiple Capitol Police officers died either that day or in the days to come.
Another #Trump #ConspiracyTheory:
Trump says #Harris wants to do #transgender operations on #immigrants in detention. He’s referring to Harris’s response to an ACLU candidate survey in 2019 in which she said this: “It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition.”
He also thinks kids get operations during the public school day.
Rather than offer substantive answers on how he would handle some of the most complex #ForeignPolicy issues, #Trump repeatedly claims, baselessly, that seismic events like #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine or #Hamas’s Oct 7 attack on #Israel — & Israel’s subsequent war in #Gaza — would not have happened under his watch.
#Trump often talks about #strongmen loving him, including his relationships with #Hungary Prime Minister Viktor #Orban, #Russia President Vladimir #Putin & #NorthKorea leader #KimJongUn. He brags about the “love letters” from Kim Jong Un. Tonight, Harris is saying these world leaders want Trump back in office because they can manipulate him.
Reportedly, #Trump advisers are livid that #ABC is periodically fact-checking him. CNN didn’t do that, for better or worse, in the last #debate. You’re going to see a lot of #GOP attacks on ABC tonight.
I’ll say this, the moderators are DEFINITELY allowing Trump to “respond” to #KamalaHarris’ answers FAR MORE than they’re allowing Harris to reply to his.
#Trump says that if he were president, the #war in #Gaza “would never have started ... #Russia would have never, ever, ever have gone into #Ukraine & killed millions of people.” He doesn’t explain why/how. On the other hand, he says, #KamalaHarris “hates #Israel.” [um, ok, her husband is Jewish, idiot]. Trump also falsely claims she “hates the Arab population, because the whole place is going to get blown up...Arabs, Jewish people” & Israel won’t even be a country any more if Harris is elected.
#KamalaHarris strikes back with one of Trump’s favorite insults: #Trump is “#weak” on #ForeignPolicy. He “wants to be a #dictator.” He "told #Putin he can “do whatever the hell he wants” if Trump is reelected.
Trump would not say he wants #Ukraine to win the war with #Russia, & he would not say he has any regrets about #Jan6.
#tyranny #autocracy #authoritarianism #violence #FarRight #NationalSecurity #democracy #law
#Trump has brought up #Biden repeatedly tonight, underscoring his struggle to adjust to running against #KamalaHarris.
Also notable: Trump keeps addressing #ABC #debate moderator #DavidMuir directly in his answers but ignoring #LinseyDavis — & often, #Harris herself.
[Biden & Muir are white men. Davis & Harris are women of color]
“Quiet, please,” Trump says to Harris as he’s responding to her last answer.
#Trump attempts to make the case for why his friendliness w/various #dictators is an asset. He talks, as he has before, about how well he knows #Russia President Vladimir #Putin. It’s that relationship, he thinks, that would make a difference. #Biden doesn’t even know how to talk to Putin, he says. "He had no idea how to talk to him. He had no idea how to stop [Russia’s invasion]… & it’s only getting worse. And it could lead to WWIII…”
Trump really wants to be running against President Biden.
After #Trump’s false statement [#lie] earlier in the #debate that people were recruiting illegal #immigrants to vote, #ElonMusk, who boasts nearly 200 million followers on X & endorsed Trump this summer, has just posted again promoting his theories about noncitizen voting.
Yes my fingers are not as fast as this #debate…
[argh carpal tunnel!!]
It’s hard to keep track of the rapid-fire #TrumpLies. Asked how he would end the #Ukraine war “within 24 hours,” #Trump didn’t answer. Instead, he said: “I want to the war to stop … people are getting killed by the millions.” According to the United Nations, from February 2022 to the end of July, at least 11,520 civilians have been killed in Ukraine.
IN UKRAINE.
#Trump interrupted Muir to talk about how great he was for #NATO by getting European countries to “pay up.”
Muir: Do you [#KamalaHarris] bear any responsibility for the lethal #Afghanistan withdrawal? #Harris says, “I agreed with President Biden’s decision to pull out. Four presidents said they would, & Joe Biden did.”
Harris seemed to pause conspicuously when she said “this … former president.” #SideEye ❤️.
Earlier, #KamalaHarris referenced a #Wharton analysis that predicted Trump’s #economic plan would boost the #deficit. In response, #Trump claimed many Wharton professors, “the top professors, think my plan is a brilliant plan.” A Wharton professor has apparently turned to social media to discover if any Trump-affirming colleagues exist.
https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/trump-campaign-policy-proposals-2024
The 2024 Trump Campaign Policy Proposals: Budgetary, Economic and Distributional Effects — Penn Wharton Budget Model
We estimate that the Trump Campaign tax and spending proposals would increase primary deficits by $5.8 trillion over the next 10 years on a conventional basis and by $4.1 trillion on a dynamic basis that includes economic feedback effects. Households across all income groups benefit on a conventiona
#KamalaHarris’s attack on the #Trump #Taliban deal seemed to have its intended effect…
Best/Worst Trump quote of the night, “I got involved with the Taliban…”
…I mean… how do you get away with a sentence like that?
Alexander Dyas@alexanderdyas and literally no one has been able to figure out who the hell Abdul is. Nobody, no journalist, no reporter, no foreign policy analyst or official. Nobody.
Bodling@Nonilex @alexanderdyas Has to be one of his demeaning nicknames, right? 'That guy with the towel on his head, you know what's his name, he's the one with the camel, Abdul, yeah, him.'
“I got involved & #Abdul is the head of the #Taliban he is still the head of the Taliban &I told Abdul, ‘Don’t do it anymore. You do it anymore, you’re going to have problems’ & he said, ‘Why do you send me a picture of my house?’ I said, ‘You’re going to have to figure that out, Abdul’ & for 18 months we had nobody killed” Trump said.
It’s not clear who #Trump was referring to.
Hibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban’s leader, having been in charge since 2016.
#FactCheck
https://thehill.com/homenews/4874162-trump-taliban-threat-abdul/
Benjamin Hendricks@Nonilex Abdul... he is a big man, very big man. He came up to me, tears in his eyes; he said, "Sir,"
Dave Goldsmith#Trump has talked about an “#Abdul” before in discussing the #Taliban. Trump in the past has said that then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo negotiated w/ “Abdul,” which could have bee a reference to top Taliban policy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Baradar met w/ Pompeo in Qatar in 2020 & was among the group’s negotiators w/the Trump admin over the withdrawal of US troops from #Afghanistan.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #delusion #derangement #weird #weirdAF
TC Won't Give In To Lies@Nonilex
Or maybe we should quit guessing and expect our POTUS candidates to communicate clearly.
Or maybe we should quit guessing and expect our POTUS candidates to communicate clearly.
The #Trump admin did not include the alleged threat to the #Taliban *leader* in its ofcl comms about the deal the then-president struck in 2020 to bring troops out of #Afghanistan. Taliban spox Zabihullah Mujahid hasn’t responded to Trump’s story….
The AP has reported there was no 1½ year stretch during Trump’s presidency w/o combat deaths among #US #ServiceMembers.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #delusion #derangement #weird #weirdAF
dangrsmindThere is no Abdul and there never was. He couldn't remember the guy's real name so he just made up something that sounded muslim to him.
@Nonilex I just read your thing about Pompeo....so maybe there is an Abdul but it is still probably a lie because it seems Pompeo not Trump was talking to him.