ERIE, Pa. – Former President Donald Trump said during a rally here Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris “must be impeached and prosecuted” for her actions on the US southern border.
“He should be impeached and prosecuted for his actions,” he said, claiming that people “have been killed because of his actions at the border and thousands more will follow in rapid succession.”
Trump’s comments followed visited USA-Mexico border last week.
Trump’s call to impeach Harris is growing threatened to go after other political enemies if elected. He talked about the arrest of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and discussed the implementation of election fraud prosecutions against election officials, donors and operatives.
Trump made personal attacks on Harris on Sunday, repeating comments he made at a rally the day before, calling the vice president “mentally retarded” and “mentally retarded.”
After Harris took office as the Democratic presidential nominee, Trump went after him in a personal senseoften based on their own race and gender.
When discussing the border, Harris often pointed to Trump’s role in the repeal bilateral border agreement In Congress in February, Democrats and several Republicans said he would address aspects of the issue that he often addresses on the campaign trail.
“Even though Donald Trump is trying to derail the border security bill, I promise you that as president of the United States, I will bring it back up and proudly sign it into law,” Harris said last week.
Moment NBC News survey A poll this month found 54% of registered voters thought Trump would do a better job of managing border security and immigration control, compared with 33% who agreed with Harris. Trump has tried to take advantage of these numbers and often tries to clarify them millions of illegal border crossings Since President Joe Biden took office on Harris and called him the administration’s “border king.”
Trump’s comments about Harris’ mental health echoed attacks he made at another rally in Wisconsin the day before.
“Joe Biden became mentally retarded. Kamala was born that way,” Trump falsely claimed on Saturday.
Think: Only a mentally retarded person could have allowed this to happen in our country,” he added. “Anyone would know that.”
On Sunday, Trump doubled down, saying, “Crooked Joe Biden is mentally retarded — sad. But Kamala Harris, the liar, I honestly believe she was born that way.”
Moments later, he called Harris a “stupid man” and the crowd responded with “chants.”close it.”
When asked to clarify Trump’s comments about Harris’ mental state, Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung said that Harris was “completely unfit to serve as president, as evidenced by the shocking ICE numbers released last week that show that he is doing his job abhorrently.” explains that it violates the picture. securing a border that allows murderers, rapists and convicted felons to flow into our country to terrorize communities.
Data Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that 13,000 migrants convicted of murder are living outside immigration detention centers in the United States. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security This was reported by NBC News that the data goes back four decades before the Biden administration.
NBC News reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on Trump’s comments on Sunday.
Harris campaign spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika said in a statement Saturday about Trump’s rally that day that Trump had “nothing ‘inspiring’ to offer the American people, just darkness.”
“The American people deserve better than Trump’s dark, retrograde Project 2025 agenda,” he said.
Some Republicans also pushed back on Trump’s comments on Saturday.
when asked by ABC News House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., said whether he approved of Trump’s use of the terms “mentally retarded” and “mental retarded,” saying, “I think we have to stick to the issues.”
Senator Lindsey Graham, RSC, came across a clip of what Trump said during his speech. CNN interview.
“I think the better way is to judge the claim that his policies are destroying the country, that he’s a crazy liberal,” he said.
Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland, Republican candidate for the Senate a CBS News said in an interview that Trump’s comments were “insulting not only the vice president, but actually people with mental disabilities.”
Hogan, whose prospects for winning blue Maryland would be dimmed if he were associated with the former president, said neither Trump nor Harris “won my vote.”
Jake Traylor reported from Erie. Megan Lebowitz reported from Washington