Newsman: Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump faced off the first presidential debate Tuesday night. During the first debate Trump has repeatedly touted that the world is laughing at the United States, and that the country has become a “disgrace” as a result of the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policies.
Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Trump by using his exact words against him. Harris instead painted Trump as the “disgrace” that the world is laughing at Tuesday night.
“I have traveled the world as vice president of the United States and world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump,” she said.
In addition to appropriating one of Trump’s regular lines, Harris also told the former president that dictators “can manipulate you with flattery and favors” and foes like President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia “would eat you for lunch.”
“Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window. She’s going to my philosophy now,” Donald Trump said during the debate. “In fact, I was going to send her a MAGA hat” he added.
At the start of the debate, Harris said Trump would deliver “the same old tired playbook, a bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling.”
She continued to reverse the foreign policy blame onto Trump and referred to him as “weak” and a “disgrace” – terms he has repeatedly directed towards her party and administration.
“It is very well known that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy,” she said. “It is well known that he admires dictators, wants to be a dictator on day one, according to himself.”
She added that military leaders that have worked with Trump “say [he’s] a disgrace.”
The vice president mocked Trump for talking about “fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter during Tuesday night’s presidential debate.
Trump reiterated his commitment to his plan, in which a 10% tariff would be imposed on all imported goods and a 60% one on goods imported from China.
“Other countries are going to finally, after 75 years, pay us back for all that we’ve done for the world, and the tariff will be substantial,” Trump, said, adding his proposed across-the-board 10% tariff would raise “hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Harris responded that tariffs are effectively a “sales tax” on American households.
President Kamala Harris is proposing a mix of tax breaks for middle-class Americans and higher taxes on wealthier people in order to bolster growth and reduce the deficit, former President Donald Trump is proposing massive tariffs to both protect U.S. industries and raise revenues.
