Trump criticizes Harris’ convention speech and her repeated mentions of him

“If I say something slightly out of order like, ‘she didn’t do a very good job last night,’ please never ever mention look or anything like that. If you ever say, ‘she didn’t look very great,’ that’s the end of your political career, so I wouldn’t say anything like that,” Trump said Friday during a campaign event hosted by Turning Point Action in Glendale, Arizona. 

“How about her opening where she said ‘thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank, thank you, thank you, thank you.’ I said ‘what the hell is wrong with her?’” Trump said.

He said Harris “mentioned my name 21 times” and he went on to criticize her mention of him during the speech and accused her of not mentioning issues like border security and inflation.

But Harris did mention the border during her speech, and the vice president criticized Trump’s role in tanking a bipartisan border bill earlier this year. Trump lobbied Republicans to oppose the border compromise in part because he wanted to campaign on the issue and didn’t want President Joe Biden, who has since ended his 2024 campaign, to secure a victory in that area. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised Donald Trump as he joined the former president on stage at an Arizona rally Friday hours after suspending his own campaign.

Kennedy said Trump shares his views on foreign policy, government censorship and “ending the chronic disease epidemic.”

In his remarks, Kennedy detailed how he met with Trump last month following the assassination attempt, and then again in Florida weeks later, to speak about their common values.

“We talked about not the values that separate us, because we don’t agree on everything, but on the values and issues that bind us together,” Kennedy said. “And one of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic.”

“Don’t you want a president that’s gonna make America healthy again?” he said later.

Before calling on Kennedy to the lectern, Trump said he will ask Kennedy to work on a panel that would investigate “the decades-long increase in chronic health problems, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility and many more.” 

Kennedy said in his remarks that Trump told him he wants to “end the grip of neo-cons on American foreign policy” and reduce the scale US military presence abroad.

He added that the two are aligned in opposition to censorship, an issue that was at the core of Kennedy’s campaign. Kennedy has repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for working with social media companies to combat misinformation online.

Kennedy ended his remarks without explicitly stating he is endorsing Trump. As he finished graphics and banners were displayed around the arena stating “RFK Jr. endorses Trump.”  

Former President Donald Trump said Friday that, if elected, he will create an independent commission to investigate assassination attempts.

At a rally in Arizona, where he was joined by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump said the commission would be “tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”

“And they will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month,” Trump added, referring to the attempt to assassinate him at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump called the move a “tribute in honor of Bobby,” as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood onstage next to him hours after suspending his campaign and throwing support behind the former president. Kennedy is the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy. 

Trump has previously said he would release the full tranche of records relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy if he wins a second term. His pledge comes after agreeing, while in office, to only release some records and keep others secret at the request of national security agencies. 

-CNN