Former President Donald Trump is touting his economic success and did so again in his second news conference in as many weeks ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention.
At his New Jersey golf club, he blended comments about the economy with attacks about his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“As a result of Kamala’s inflation, price hikes have cost the typical household a total of $28,000. … When I left office, I left Kamala and crooked Joe Biden a surging economy and no inflation. The mortgage rate was around 2%. Gasoline had reached $1.87 a gallon. … Harris and Biden blew it all up.”
Wile democrats claim his comments were either exaggerating or misleading, independent estimates confirm that prices did surge during the Biden-Harris administration.
Meantime, Kamala Harris may be ready to talk policy. She outlines her economic program during a visit to North Carolina today. She’ll propose food and grocery price controls. Former President Trump says that would only result in shortages, rationing — and ultimately hunger. He calls them “Communist price controls.” An acknowledgement of the failure of Bidenomics.
Speaking to the Milwaukee Police Association on Friday, Vance was asked about criticism that Trump has received for characterizing the Presidential Medal of Freedom as “better” than the military’s top honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Vance, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, said that “the veteran community is very much behind Donald Trump.”
During an event at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday, Trump said the Medal of Freedom “much better” than the top military honor because the servicemen and women who receive it have “been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.”
Trump was talking about the award after an introduction from GOP mega donor Miriam Adelson, to whom he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019.
Trump went on to call Adelson “a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal.”
“I don’t think him complimenting and saying a nice word about a person who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in any way denigrating those who received military honors,” Vance said Friday.
Meantime, Trump’s running mate JD Vance says he doesn’t feel that Trump needs to pivot away from making personal critiques of political opponents.
Speaking at the Milwaukee Police Association on Friday, Vance was asked if Trump should instead focus more on policy than making pointed criticism of foes, such as Harris.
“I don’t think the president needs to pivot, and if I told him that, I can guess what he’d say,” Vance said.
“I think that the reason that President Trump has been so successful connecting with Americans is, even when they disagree with something that he might say, they know that he just is who he is,” Vance said.
Much of Vance’s remarks focused on Harris’ record on crime, saying that her policies make the job of police officers “harder” and that the vice president is “trying to redefine her record as a tough-on-crime prosecutor” but that her actions are “the opposite of tough on crime.”
Before serving in the U.S. Senate and as vice president, Harris was a prosecutor in San Francisco and California’s attorney general.
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