Gabbard advises Trump to go after Harris's 'character' during debate - Washington Examiner
EXCLUSIVE — When former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat, she made political waves by criticizing then- Sen. Kamala Harris for her prosecutorial record.
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FULL STORY AT LINK ABOVE at the Washington Examiner.
But damn.
She destroys Harris.
Gabbard advises Trump to go after Harris's 'character' during debate - Washington Examiner
EXCLUSIVE — When former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat, she made political waves by criticizing then- Sen. Kamala Harris for her prosecutorial record.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Gabbard advises Trump to go after Harris's 'character' during debate
Naomi LimAugust 30, 2024 5:49 pm
Now Gabbard has this advice for former President Donald Trump before his debateagainst Harris next month: Make your case against the vice president based on her character.
“It’s about her character,” Gabbard told the Washington Examiner. “That was really what I exposed in that debate in 2019 when we were both candidates running for president, was her hypocrisy and how she would say one thing and do another. She would hold people, the people, to one standard and hold herself to a different standard. I challenged her on the record that she claimed to be proud of, and she had nothing to say to defend that record. Not much has changed between then and now.”
Gabbard’s advice is somewhat at odds with other Trump supporters who are imploring the former president to criticize Harris’s policies rather than her personality. But, on the sidelines of the Moms for Liberty National Summit in Washington, the Army Reserve officer contended he could do both.
“If I can be helpful to him in any way, it really is just sharing the experience that I’ve had with her on the debate stage and how she will try to hide, deflect away from, distract away from the truth, the truth about who she is and her record, and the fact that the policies, at least so far that she has talked about just a little bit, stand diametrically opposed to her record,” she said. “She is a fake person who cannot be trusted and who cares only about herself and her political ambition and not about the American people.”
During an interview, Gabbard provided scant details on Trump’s debate preparation, with which she is helping him before his Sept. 10 matchup with Harris on ABC. The former president told reporters this week that he is “not spending a lot of time on it.”
“I think my whole life, I’ve been preparing for a debate,” Trump said. “Basically, you have to be real. You can’t cram 30 years of knowledge in your head in one week. There’s a little debate prep, but I’ve always done it more or less the same way.”
In 2019, Gabbard accused Harris of prosecuting more than 1,500 people for marijuana offenses when she was San Francisco‘s district attorney and California’s attorney general and then laughing when she was asked by The Breakfast Club radio program that year “if she ever smoked marijuana.” Gabbard then alleged Harris “blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so” when she was the state’s attorney general.
Gabbard was referring to the 1983 quadruple murder case of Kevin Cooper after Harris’s office declined to order advanced DNA testing. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)’s decision to do so has not overturned Cooper’s conviction so far. However, the courts never demanded that Harris conduct the tests, according to the Washington Post.
But, five years later, Gabbard is more focused on Harris’s vice presidency and is encouraging Trump to do the same on the debate stage.
“She’s been the vice president of the United States for the last 3 1/2 years, a breath away from the presidency, someone who she says is the last person in the room with President [Joe] Biden when he’s making a decision,” Gabbard said. “She has cast more tiebreaking votes in the United States Senate than any other vice president in history. She has not been some passive person sitting in the corner. She is responsible for every policy that the Biden-Harris administration has pushed forward in these last 3 1/2 years, policies that she has said time and time again she is proud of, touting their success.
“It’s not about tying her to Biden, it’s tying her to her own record,” . . . .MORE TO THE STORY at the link above!
