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Donald Trump has drawn ridicule and accusations of hypocrisy after accusing Kamala Harris of mistreating Mike Pence, the former vice-president who his supporters said should be hanged during the January 6 insurrection that he incited.

The Republican’s nominee’s comments came in an interview with Fox News, when he also singled out Harris’s 2018 cross-examination of Brett Kavanaugh during Senate confirmation hearings after Trump, then president, nominated him as a justice on the US supreme court.

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Trump’s comments prompted a response from Harris’s campaign, which appeared to interpret it an example of age-related confusion and evidence that the former president, who is 78 and now the oldest presidential candidate in US history following Joe Biden’s withdrawal, is in mental decline.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

FTA:

“They say she has many deficiencies, but she’s a nasty person,” Trump told the interviewer, Mark Levin. “The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible. The way she treats people is horrible. The way she treated Justice Kavanaugh in that hearing – in the history of Congress, nobody’s been treated that way.”
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In fact, Trump may have been referring to a 2020 vice-presidential debate between Harris and Pence, when the now Democratic nominee twice told her opponent “I’m speaking” when he tried to interrupt her as she articulated an argument.
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However, the comments evoked social media references to Trump’s notorious treatment of Pence after his presidential election defeat to Biden, when he tried to pressure the vice-president into refusing to certify the results in Congress, as dictated by the US constitution, and then egged on a mob to attack the US Capitol while Pence was inside.

and how she responded:

“In a stunning senile moment, Donald Trump just suggested it was Kamala Harris who treated Mike Pence poorly,” the campaign posted on X, linking to video footage of Trump’s comments.

Not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand "Senile" is the kind of insult you'd expect from Trump, not Kamala. On the other hand, Quack Quack motherfuckers... he's a proverbial duck.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand “Senile” is the kind of insult you’d expect from Trump, not Kamala.

Fight fire with fire, how else do you respond to the craziness coming from Trump, but to point out it's in fact crazy, and he is a laughable idiot spewing bullshit.
Senile is the perfect way to do that here IMO.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

that's what she has us for.

I'm not opposed to mocking trump, I just don't expect it directly from the campaign. So far they've mostly maintained plausible deniability. (like with the couch references.)

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Campaigns that take the high road lose. It’s a strategy that doesn’t win over undecided voters.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

He is definitely WEIRD too.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 18 points 2 years ago

Is senile an insult, or an observation?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

a little of both.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s an improvement over the old “I know you are, but what am I” tactic: “My opponent’s senility has seemingly caused him to forget that it is, in fact, he who is”.

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