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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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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 weeks ago

How dare you mistreat the man I wanted dead!

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago

This dude is balls to the wall hilarious. If it wasn't for the fact that he was dead serious about everything he says I might enjoy him as jester.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did she grab him by the dick?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

That’s what that means!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Dangling pointer 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're triggering my PTSD.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

You just know he’s taking that fact very not well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Biden bait and switched him real good lol

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

He is definitely WEIRD too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is senile an insult, or an observation?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

a little of both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

"...and her orange skin is weird, and she always brags about the size of her definitely small penis, and she lost (whoops I mean won) to (whoops I mean against) Joe Biden..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hate to be pedantic, but what kind of phone is that in the photo? It has the white, wired headphones, and an actual phone jack.

It says it's a campaign event on Monday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Likely some form of secure/encrypted phone. There are special versions of phones made, not available to the general public.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

My phone (Motorola G32) has a headphone jack, and the headphones themselves aren't part of the phone.