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“Bobby and I will fight together to defeat the corrupt political establishment and return control of this country to the people,” he said.
Despite the new endorsement, Trump still expressed his dissatisfaction with the race, complaining he had to face Kamala Harris instead of Joe Biden.
The former president accused Democrats of carrying out an “unconstitutional coup” to elevate Harris.
“She’s the only person ever to get a nomination of the party without getting one vote,” Trump said. “Hey, maybe she’s smarter than we think. You know you could look at it that way.”
Elsewhere, Trump falsely claimed Harris lost more than 300,000 migrant children, most of whom ended up dead or sex slaves.
“She allowed them to be trafficked into our country,” Trump said. “Many of them are in sex slavery or dead, probably mostly dead.”
The former president was referring to a recent report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, which found that between 2019 and 2023, ICE was “not able to account” for all the locations of 32,000 unaccompanied minors who had been settled in the U.S. after exiting immigration detention.
The report also found that 291,000 of the kids were not placed into removal proceedings because ICE had never served them notices to appear or scheduled a court date for them.
What Trump declined to mention was that this period involved two of his own years in office, and ICE itself has argued the OIG report is inaccurate.
That wasn’t the only humdinger from the podium.
Trump also claimed Harris cast a tie-breaking entitlement by over $250bn because she “wants to have the illegal immigrants coming into our county go on Social Security and Medicare, which will destroy Social Security and Medicare.”
The Trump campaign has used this attack before, though it has later explained that this figure was a reference to the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, which would indeed lower government spending on these programs—by lowering the prices the government spent on drugs themselves, not by cutting benefits, an idea celebrated by many health experts.
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