Donald Trump, in a general press conference at Mar-a-Lago, said today that the Biden Administration has no clue how to handle the growing global troubles coming at America from all directions.
“Our country right now is in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in from an economic standpoint and a safety standpoint. We have a lot of bad things coming up, you could end up in a depression of the 1929 variety, which would be a devastating thing, took many years, took decades to recover from it and we’re very close to that and we’re very close to a world war.” He said the current administration has no clue how to handle any of it.
Trump spoke for an hour, taking questions randomly from reporters without having to refer to the cards given to him by staff with the names of who to call on, as President Biden did when he held his rare press conferences. Trump was unscripted for over an hour with the hostile mainstream media.
Kamala Harris has yet to hold a press conference, 14 days after the Democrats kicked Biden off the ticket and elevated her as the nominee. This was Trump’s first press conference since he was nearly killed by an assassin in June at a rally in Butler, Penn.
Some of the other statements Trump made included:
He said the presidency “was taken away from Joe Biden…and I’m no Biden fan,” confirming that in his mind, as in the minds of many, the Democratic Party staged a coup and forced Biden out.
He reminded reporters that Kamala Harris never received a single delegate vote for president when she ran in 2020. “She never made it to Iowa,” he said. “We have somebody that hasn’t received one vote for president and she’s running.. Kamala’s record is horrible. She’s a radical left person at a level nobody’s seen.”
Trump proposed three debates next month with Harris, saying he will beat her because she is barely competent.
“The other side has to agree to the terms,” he said. “They may or may not agree. I don’t know if they’re going to agree. She hasn’t done an interview, she can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent and she can’t do an interview. But I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight.”
Asked by a reporter if he is concerned about the enthusiasm shown during rallies for Harris.
“Oh, give me a break,” Trump said. “Listen, I had 107,000 people in New Jersey. You didn’t report it. I’m so glad you asked. What did she have yesterday — 2,000 people? If I ever had 2,000 people, you’d say my campaign is finished. It’s so dishonest, the press, and here’s a great example: I had in Michigan recently, 25,000 people — and 25,000 [other] people, we just couldn’t get them in.”
He said in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 25,000 people showed up and another 20,000 could not get into that rally.
“We had so many. Nobody ever mentions that. When she gets 1,500 people, and I saw it yesterday on ABC where they said, ‘Oh, the crowd was so big.’ I have 10 times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size. And they never say the crowd was big. That’s why I’m always saying, turn around the cameras. I’m so glad you asked that. I think it’s so terrible when you say, ‘Well, she has 1,500 people, a thousand people,’ and they talk about, “Oh, the enthusiasm.’ Let me tell you, we have the enthusiasm, the Republican Party, and me as a candidate.”
“He had a reason for not doing well, and he was never … the sharpest or brightest bulb in the ceiling, that I can tell you, but he could do interviews, at least not lately. He couldn’t, perhaps, but she should be doing interviews. She doesn’t want to do interviews. And the reason she doesn’t is, No. 1, her policies are so bad. I think that it’s not going to change because it’s really ultimately not about her as much as about her policies. She wants open borders. She wants to defund the police. She wants to take away your guns.”
