#Harris #Trump #Debate 🧵
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#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”
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#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]
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#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.
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#Trump is still refusing to look at #KamalaHarris while she speaks.
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#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.
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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.
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#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.
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#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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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#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.
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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.
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#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.
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#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
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#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.
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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#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 ️.