Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – President Donald Trump lobbed a series of attacks directed at his predecessor and a former presidential competitor last night. The attacks came as former President Barack Obama and 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton spoke during Democrats virtual convention.
Among tweets, the president wrote:
“I live in New York. Even the most Liberal friends that I have are thinking twice about voting Democrat this time because they’ve seen what’s happened to the City under.” @NYCMayor de Blasio and the State under @NYGovCuomo – They’re getting eaten up by taxes.”
While Obama was speaking, Trump tweeted that he [Obama] had “spied on my campaign and got got.”
HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2020
Welcome, Barack and Crooked Hillary. See you on the field of battle! pic.twitter.com/ZrTKXcc6aU
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2020
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Obama has painted a unsparing portrait of American democracy on the brink if Trump wins in November. Obama warned in a scathing, and at times emotional, address Wednesday that his successor is both unfit for office and apathetic about the nation’s founding principles. His comments during the Democratic convention amounted to a damning assessment of his successor,
.@JoeBiden made me a better president. I’m asking you to believe in his and Kamala’s ability to help make us a better country. More importantly, I’m asking you to believe in your own and to help them, in this election and beyond. https://t.co/YYEAFxx4nW
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 20, 2020
Hillary Clinton is reminding people of her 2016 loss despite winning 3 million more votes than Donald Trump as she urges Democrats not to sit the election out so he can’t “sneak or steal his way to victory.” Clinton addressed the DNC from her home in Chappaquiddick, New York, saying she had hoped Trump would put his ego aside and be the president America needs, but that hasn’t happened.
Meantime, California U.S. Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first Black woman to accept a spot on a major party’s presidential ticket.
It's official – Kamala Harris accepts the VP nomination.
#DNC2020convention #DNC2020convention #Kamala #KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/2r6AjI25ZS
— Courtney Theriault (@cspotweet) August 20, 2020
In her acceptance speech Wednesday, the California senator mixed her polish as a former prosecutor with deeply personal tales of her upbringing to argue that she and Joe Biden can rejuvenate a country ravaged by a pandemic and deeply divided by partisan bitterness.
In reaction to Harris’ praise of her running mate, Joe Biden Trump tweeted:
BUT DIDN’T SHE CALL HIM A RACIST??? DIDN’T SHE SAY HE WAS INCOMPETENT???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2020
The tweet is a reference to the first Democratic presidential debate when Harris went in on Biden over his stance of busing programs decades ago, that were meant to help end school segregation.
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