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Trump and Walz are expected to attend separate college football games on Saturday night
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Former president Donald Trump asserted Vice President Kamala Harris was “born mentally impaired” in the first few minutes at his Wisconsin rally on Saturday afternoon.
"Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Kamala was born that way,” Trump told a room of rallygoers in Prairie du Chien while criticizing the administration’s position on immigration.
The former president falsely asserted, once again, that Harris was appointed “border czar” and allowed migrants to cross the border and commit violent crimes.
“Only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,” Trump said.
There is no evidence of mass “migrant crime” happening across America nor any indication Harris was born with a disability that impacts her mental or cognitive functioning.
Trump also blamed the Biden administration for not allocating enough Secret Service resources to accommodate a large outdoor rally. He complained the indoor space only held “2,000” people or less but that “40,000” people wanted to attend his rally.
The former president is also expected to attend a college football game between Alabama and Georgia. Meanwhile, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz will attend the game between Michigan and Minnesota.
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Donald Trump praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his Warren, Michigan rally on Friday afternoon.
“I know he’s here, RFK Jr,” Trump said. ”He’s a big part of what we’re doing. And he does have great ideas. Getting a Kenned to endorse a Trump, a Republican, that was a big.”
Trump says he’ll make Elon Musk ‘cost cutter’ for country
Donald Trump claimed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will be the country’s “cost cutter” if he’s elected.
Trump made the comments at a Michigan rally on Friday afternoon.
“I’m gonna get Elon, and he’s great at this, he’s gonna be our cost cutter...I don’t think I can get him full-time because he’s a little bit busy sending rockets up and all the things he does but, but he’s so much into that, he said the waste of this country is crazy, and we’re going to get Elon Musk to be our cost cutter,” Trump said.
“He’s going to do it for zero, but he wants to see this country be great, and he’ll do it,” he added.
Trump says he ‘never had proof’ of his immigration claims
Donald Trump just told his supporters in Warren, Michigan that he “never had proof” of his claims that countries are sending criminals to immigrate into the US.
”In Venezuela, their crime is down 72% because they’ve taken their criminals, their gang members, their drug dealers, and they brought them into the United States of America...They’re dumping them in our country, and I never had proof,” Trump said.
Trump went on to cite “numbers” that “just came out” showing that people convicted of crimes are immigrating to the US.
“Nobody’s ever seen these numbers for years, nobody’s ever seen them,” he said. “And probably some patriot in ICE or somebody just did something. They just said, ‘The country’s going bad. You can’t have a country like that.’”
“So I’ve never really spoken about this, because this is the first time we have these numbers: 13,000 convicted, jailed murderers tougher than any of our criminals,” he added. “The only one good thing about this is they make our criminals look like very nice people.”
Trump has consistently spread false claims to promote his hardline agenda on immigration. However, peer-reviewed studies show that people who immigrate to and live in the U.S. without documentation are less likely than native-born Americans to be arrested for violent, drug and property crimes, the Associated Press reports.
Trump campaigns in Michigan
Donald Trump is speaking at a rally in Warren, Michigan this afternoon.
He’s focusing his attacks on Kamala Harris and immigration this afternoon as she prepares to visit the US-Mexico border in Arizona.
“She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing,” Trump said. “She should resign in disgrace for what she’s done to our country, not run for president.”
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