Vice President Kamala Harris stated Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “desires to be an autocrat,” as she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago on Thursday night time.
“I can’t cozy as much as tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong-Un, who’re rooting for Trump,” stated Harris.
“As a result of they know he’s simple to govern with flattery and favors,” the vp stated.
“They know Trump will not maintain autocrats accountable — as a result of he desires to be an autocrat,” Harris stated of her Republican opponent.
“As President, I’ll by no means waver in protection of America’s safety and beliefs.”
Shortly after Harris delivered these traces, Trump replied to her critique in a social media publish.
“The Tyrants are laughing at her, she’s weak and ineffective, and for 3 and a half years she has executed nothing besides enabled them to get STRONG, RICH, and POWERFUL!” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
Harris’ sharp criticism of Trump’s effectively documented admiration for dictators and autocrats hostile to U.S. pursuits constructed on a theme established earlier within the night time.
The conference’s speaker record on Thursday included a half-dozen veterans of the American navy and intelligence group. One after the other, they portrayed Trump as a menace to nationwide safety, and Harris as a staunch defender of America’s beliefs.
“I wish to speak tonight about nationwide safety,” stated Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, the Democratic nominee for a Senate seat from that state this fall.
“As a result of the selection in November is stark: America retreating from the world, or main the world. Trump desires to take us backwards,” stated Slotkin, a former Central Intelligence Company analyst who labored alongside the navy throughout three excursions in Iraq.
U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) speaks on stage through the last day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Middle on August 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.
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“He admires dictators, treats our pals as adversaries, and our adversaries as pals.”
“Do not give an inch to pretenders who wrap themselves within the flag, however spit within the face of the freedoms it represents,” she stated to broad applause.
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and astronaut, stated, “As president, Trump skipped his intelligence briefings.”
“He was too busy sucking as much as dictators and dreaming of turning into one himself,” Kelly stated. “Trump thinks People who’ve made the last word sacrifice are ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ If we fall for it once more, and make him commander-in-chief, the one suckers could be us.”
Kelly additionally stated that the threats america faces are too severe to danger one other time period within the White Home for Trump, who “the world laughs at.”
Leon Panetta, a former secretary of protection and director of the CIA, additionally issued a warning.
“Trump would abandon our allies and isolate America,” he stated. “We tried that within the Nineteen Thirties. It was silly and harmful then. It’s silly and harmful now.”
He additionally quoted Republican former President Ronald Reagan, who stated, “Isolationism by no means was and by no means will likely be an appropriate response to tyrannical governments.”
Not like Reagan, “Trump tells tyrants like Putin they will do ‘regardless of the hell they need.'”
“Donald Trump doesn’t perceive the world. And he doesn’t perceive the service and sacrifice of our navy,” stated Panetta.
“Our fallen veterans aren’t suckers. They aren’t losers. They’re heroes.”
