Donald Trump clearly wasn’t happy with news coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent rally and quickly complained about “fake news media” distorting the size of the event at his campaign event Wednesday. “They never mention our crowds !” Trump said, to boisterous applause from the crowd. Trump held his first public campaign event at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte since the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally earlier this month.
“The fake news say her crowd was amazing,” Trump said, estimating it had "maybe” a thousand people. “They said it was such a big crowd, such a beautiful crowd they never mention our crowd.” Read also: 'That's it?!' Police at Trump rally express surprise at small size of crowd After referring to his rally as a “lovefest,” Trump motioned to the television cameras in the back of hte arena livestreaming the event.
“I tell them 'look – at all those cameras back there,'” Trump said, soliciting boos from the audience. “And I always say, but they never do it – turn the cameras around to show them the crowd. They never want to do it.
” Photos of the event showed rows of empty seats in the upper part of the arena as the crowd filled in, but it’s unclear just how many were in attendance Wednesday. Watch the clip below or at this link . One of the attacks Republicans have deployed against Kamala Harris is making fun of her laugh , a similar tactic used against Hillary Clinton, who was described in 2016 as "cackling," a sound a witch would make.
Republican Party social media accounts posted a video of Harris chuckling with the caption, "Kamala Harris brought her cackle to Milwaukee: 'Good afternoon, Wisconsin! Ha ha ha ha!'" The comment earned jeers in the comment section. "You are frightened by the emotion of joy?" asked someone in the comments . The Washington Post reported Sunday , citing a senior Republican involved in the Trump campaign, that there will be "attacks on her laugh and her tendency to say awkward things.
" Read also: Trump vs. Harris will seem compressed. But it’s the norm elsewhere.
“We are going to cut up so many clips,” the person promised. MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace played a clip of Harris speaking to Drew Barrymore's show about her laughter being the same as her late mother's. Barrymore put her hand to her heart, sighing, "Aww.
" Harris says in the clip that she remembers growing up with women sitting around tables drinking coffee and laughing and doesn't want to stigmatize children, especially, away from expressing their laughter. Memes have spread online saying, "Make America Laugh Again," a play on Trump's long-time MAGA slogan. Etsy has exploded with merchandise from hats to t-shirts featuring the slogan.
Writer and longtime political analyst John Heileman pointed to the attacks on a "cackling Clinton" as well as the obvious sexism. "Anybody heard Donald Trump laugh? Laughter in life is — this is an odd political point — but laughter is infectious," said Heileman. "When you see someone laugh, if they break character on SNL, you catch the bug.
You start to laugh along with them. It's one of the important signs of humanity. And I think anybody who you've never seen laugh is probably a sociopath.
" "So, having said that, I just want to come back to pull these two threads together and talk about efficacy to talk about why this DEI argument is a bad argument from the political standpoint," he pivoted to talk about Republicans claiming Harris only got where she is because she was a Black woman. He explained that about 7 percent of Americans will determine the election, many of whom are people of color and young people whose enthusiasm Democrats will count on. "But this argument that they are making, which is why her framing of future versus past, this argument is an old argument.
It sounds old to young people. And it reminds people of color, whether they are brown skin or black skin or whatever, that of all things that Maya is saying, what's embedded in that is this notion that they want to take you back. And the argument sounds archaic.
It doesn't sound like 2024 in America," he said. He said attacking her this way is "reminding people how out of step they are with modern America." See the video below or at the link here .
'Anyone ever see Trump laugh': Analyst says those who don't laugh 'probably sociopaths' www.youtube.com CONTINUE READING Show less The head of the FBI gave a hearing before Congress on Wednesday, revealing new details about the attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump , prompting one GOP lawmaker to question the agency's priorities.
FBI Director Christopher Wray met with members of the House Judiciary Committee to give an update on the investigation into the attack, sharing that 20-year-old shooter Thomas Crooks scoped out the area and flew a drone over the event space before taking fire on the former president. “Why didn’t they have the place locked down? Why didn't they have their own assets flying out there?” Texas Rep. Chip Roy asked during a segment with Fox News host Neil Cavuto after the hearing.
“What on earth does the FBI actually do besides put a 75-year-old grandmother in prison?” Read also: Fox News host confronts GOP lawmaker for being a Trump 'suck up' Roy is referring to Paulette Harlow, a woman convicted and sentenced to two years in prison in 2023 for blockading a Washington abortion clinic, according to The Associated Press. Roy expressed his frustration that the FBI seemingly had ample time to prevent the attempt on Trump’s life, as Crooks was found to have walked around the area where the rally was held three times before climbing atop a roof and taking aim at Trump . “The Federal Bureau of Investigation can't stop this shooter meanwhile they put a 75-year-old woman in prison for two years because she was praying at an abortion clinic,” Roy said.
“Their priorities are all out of whack.” Watch the clip below or at this link . CONTINUE READING Show less Vice President Kamala Harris ' search for a running mate is more expansive than previously reported.
According to CBS News, "about a dozen" people are being considered to join her on the ticket — many of them already widely reported, but others not. The report says multiple sources have confirmed "that the list of candidates includes several governors: Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B.
Pritzker of Illinois and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Members of the Biden administration, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also being considered, along with Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, among others.
" Additionally, the running mate hunt, which reportedly has tapped former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder for the vetting process, also is looking at other individuals "who do not currently hold elective office" — but did not specify who those individuals are. Read also: 'Harsh': Fox Business guest gets pushback for smearing Kamala Harris with sexual slur The pressure to pick a "ticket-balancing" vice president has ramped up on Harris, to draw a contrast between herself and former President Donald Trump , whose selection of far-right Sen. J.
D. Vance (R-OH) has been largely panned by commentators and may even be regretted by Trump himself . He has already come under fire for his record of supporting a total nationwide ban on abortion and proclaiming that Harris gave off the vibes of a " childless cat lady " who had no stake in America's future because she had no biological children.
Harris has stepchildren through marriage. The consideration of Buttigieg, which was reported by MSNBC earlier in the day, has been met with interest but also some skepticism from commenters on social media. Harris herself, who served as a prosecutor, attorney general, and United States senator before running on the ticket with President Joe Biden in 2020, is under pressure to pick someone who "balances" out the ticket, in particular an elected official from a battleground state.
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