WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris claimed with out proof Tuesday that former President Donald Trump “has an enemies checklist of individuals he intends to prosecute” as she made a closely promoted closing attraction to voters with the White Home as her backdrop.
Harris, 60, made the allegation as she urged listeners to reject Trump’s “chaos,” calling the Republican nominee a “petty tyrant” and “wannabe dictator” — as polls present an extremely shut race precisely one week from Election Day.
“Donald Trump has advised us his priorities for a second time period. He has an enemies checklist of individuals he intends to prosecute,” Harris claimed — regardless of no reporting on the existence of such an inventory.
“On day one if elected, Donald Trump would stroll into that workplace with an enemies checklist. When elected, I’ll stroll in with a to-do checklist stuffed with priorities of what I’ll get finished for the American folks,” she advised the roaring crowd estimated by her marketing campaign to be roughly 40,000-strong.
Trump, 78, prompt final week he could pardon retiring President Biden’s son Hunter and has famous in a number of current public appearances that he opposed prosecuting Hillary Clinton throughout his time period of workplace.
Trump has denounced what he calls the “weaponization” of the Justice Division within the Biden-Harris administration, which filed two unprecedented pending legal circumstances towards him.
“Not like Donald Trump, I don’t consider individuals who disagree with me are the enemy. He needs to place them in jail. I’ll give them a seat on the desk,” Harris stated in her 29-minute speech, which Biden, 81, didn’t attend.
“He says that considered one of his highest priorities is to let loose the violent extremists who assaulted these legislation enforcement officers on January 6,” Harris went on — although Trump has not particularly stated he would launch rioters who attacked police, versus non-violent members of the mob that stormed the Capitol in 2021 to dam certification of Trump’s loss.
“Donald Trump intends to make use of the US army towards Americans who merely disagree with him,” she added.
“Folks he calls, ‘the enemy from inside.’”
Harris made a variety of further factually contested claims throughout her remarks, together with saying that Trump “has proven his contempt for our nation’s heroes —calls them suckers and losers” — citing a disputed Atlantic journal article from 2020 whose central premise a few canceled French cemetery go to was debunked by Navy data.
“Autocrats like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un are rooting for him on this election,” stated Harris, whom Putin really publicly endorsed, although the sincerity of that endorsement has been questioned.
“Politicians have gotten to cease treating immigration as a difficulty to scare up votes in an election,” Harris stated at one other level — in reference to Republican assaults on her tenure as Biden’s level particular person on lowering unlawful immigration, which as an alternative surged to 3 consecutive annual highs.
“It’s time to flip the web page on the drama and the battle, the worry and division. It’s time for a brand new era of management in America,” she stated.
Harris additionally spoke of insurance policies that she stated would cut back “monetary stress on center class households” after excessive inflation and elevated rates of interest below her and Biden’s administration.
“Donald Trump would ship tax cuts to his billionaire donors. I’ll ship tax cuts to working folks and the center class,” she stated.
Harris has proposed an expanded youngster tax credit score and endorsed Trump’s proposal to finish federal revenue taxes on ideas.
Harris has not endorsed Trump’s proposals to eradicate taxes on extra time pay and Social Safety advantages, or his proposals to make automotive mortgage curiosity tax-deductible and IVF therapies free by means of both an insurance coverage mandate or authorities subsidy.
She additionally vowed to “reduce the purple tape” to construct new housing to decrease prices — a proposal she and Trump agree upon — and slammed Trump’s plans for brand spanking new tariffs on overseas items as akin to a brand new nationwide gross sales tax, which Trump has disputed, calling tariffs a negotiating tactic.
Harris spoke as Trump campaigned in swing-state Pennsylvania.
Biden watched his would-be successor’s speech from contained in the White Home.
The outgoing president, who was pressured by fellow Democrats to relinquish the social gathering’s nomination in July, advised reporters earlier Tuesday that he wasn’t going to be there as a result of “it’s for her.”
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