Trump slams Dems for forcefully removing Biden and handing 'least respected' Harris presidential ticket

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA: Former president Donald Trump said that Joe Biden had "the right to run" for re-election and that the Democratic Party "took it away" from him while denouncing his new opponent Kamala Harris as the "least admired, least respected, and worst vice president in the history of our country."

During his press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump held private talks with prominent media outlets on Thursday afternoon, August 8. The Republican presidential contender, according to his campaign, wanted to speak to the media "while they were already in Palm Beach because he's the most transparent candidate in history."

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"We have somebody that hasn’t received one vote for president, and she’s running, and that’s fine with me, but we were given Joe Biden, and now we’re given somebody else," Trump said, per Fox News. "I think, frankly, I’d rather be running against somebody else, but that was their choice."

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Donald Trump said Kamala Harris is "a radical left person at a level that nobody’s seen," and said her running mate, Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, is a "radical left man that has positions that are not even possible to believe they exist."

"He’s heavy into the transgender world, heavy into lots of different worlds having to do with safety. He doesn’t want to have borders, he doesn’t want to have walls. He doesn’t want to have any form of safety for our country," Trump said. "He doesn’t mind people coming in from prisons and neither does she — I guess because she couldn’t care less."

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"The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden, and I’m no Biden fan," Trump said. "From a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away, and people are saying he lost after the debate and he couldn’t win." 

"Whether he could win or he couldn’t, when he had the right to run, and they took it away, and they said they would use the 25th amendment," Trump continued.

Trump said the pressure from within the Democrat Party and "what they’ve done" is "pretty incredible." "Now I’m running against somebody else, and we’re leading. We’re leading — so I’m not complaining," he said. "I’m saying, for a country with a Constitution that we cherish — we cherish this Constitution — to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible." 

Donald Trump says Joe Biden is 'a very angry man right now'

Donald Trump said he thought Democrats "would have gone out to a vote" or "would have had a primary system." "But just to take it away from him like he was a child?" he asked, adding that Joe Biden is "a very angry man right now."

"I can tell you that he’s not happy with Obama, and he’s not happy with Nancy Pelosi," Trump said. "He’s not happy with any of the people that told him ‘you’ve got to leave.’ He’s very unhappy, very angry." 

Donald Trump thinks Joe Biden also blames Kamala Harris 

Donald Trump said he thinks Joe Biden "also blames" Kamala Harris. "He’s trying to put up a good face, but it is a very bad thing in terms of a country when you do that." "I’m not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed, and he had a rough debate, but that doesn’t mean that you just take it away like that," he added.

The former president added, "You go out to a vote, you do something — he had 14 million votes. She had no votes." "And she’s crashing," Trump inferred.

Donald Trump also slammed Kamala Harris' media absence

Donald Trump also attacked Kamala Harris for avoiding interaction with the press. After serving as the de facto Democratic nominee for eighteen days, Harris has yet to hold an official news conference or participate in an extensive interview.

"She's not doing any news conference. You know why she's not doing it? Because she can't do a news conference. She doesn't know how to do a news conference," Trump added. "She's not smart enough to do a news conference."

Trump said he is "very happy to run against" Harris, and said he "hates to be defending" Biden, but pointed to the Constitution again.

"We have a Constitution. It's a very important document, and we live by it. She has no votes, and I'm very happy to run against her. I'm not complaining from that standpoint. And I hate to be defending him, but he did not want to leave. He wanted to see if he could win," Trump said. "They said, 'you're not going to win. After the debate, they said, 'you're not going to win. You can't win. You're out.'"

Donald Trump claims Democrats 'just picked' Kamala Harris

Donald Trump claimed that Democrats "just picked a person" having successfully forced Joe Biden to withdraw from the contest. Trump, pointing to Kamala Harris' failed 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, said she was "the first out."

"She was the first loser. Okay. So we call her the first loser. She was the first loser when, during the primary system, during the Democrat primary system, she was the first one to quit, and she quit. She had no votes, no support, and she was a bad debater, by the way, a very bad debater," Trump said. "And that's not the thing I'm looking forward to. But she was a bad debater. She obviously did a bad job. She never made it to Iowa then for some reason."

Donald Trump thinks Joe Biden 'regrets' tapping Kamala Harris as vice president

According to Donald Trump, Joe Biden "regrets" choosing Kamala Harris to be his vice president.

"He picked her and she turned on him too. She was working with the people that wanted him out," Trump said. "But the fact that you can get no votes, lose in the primary system. In other words, you had 14 or 15 people. She was the first one out, and that you can then be picked to run for president." 

He added, "It seems, seems to me actually unconstitutional. Perhaps it's not." 

Internet says Donald Trump is afraid of losing to Kamala Harris

Following his criticism of the Democrats for selecting Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee and forcibly removing Joe Biden from office, the former president was made fun of by netizens.

One X user wrote, "So he's admitting he's afraid of losing to Kamala." Another added, "Man he’s so scared."

"We're not going back Donny. Oh and thanks for bowing down to V.P. Harris and agreeing to the ABC debate," wrote one.

"Of course he said that! He wants no part of VP Harris! The clown is running scared!" wrote someone else. 

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