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Former President Donald Trump evoked a line he made famous during his highly-rated hit show “The Apprentice” during a raucous rally in the battleground state of Michigan.
When it came to his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump made it very clear how he feels about the job she’s done as the nation’s second-in-command.
“You destroy everything you touch,” the GOP nominee said during a rally at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich., which was his second event in the state in as many days, the New York Post reported.
He then said to roaring cheers: “Kamala Harris, you’re fired. Get out of here!”
Upon taking the stage, the former president immediately mocked Harris, 60, claiming she was unable to speak, that no one knew who she was, and that “something is wrong with her.”
He vowed to “stop the invasion of criminals into our country” and to restore the American dream — a reference to several illegal migrants who have been charged with heinous crimes including rape and murder of American citizens since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration.
President Joe Biden put Harris in charge of solving the then-budding border crisis but throughout her nearly four-year term in office, illegal crossings only worsened, hitting new records nearly every month.
“This is all you need to know. Kamala broke it. I will fix it,” Trump told the crowd.
At one point, while criticizing Harris for her handling of the migrant crisis, Trump also took a jab at President Biden, 81, who has largely been absent from Trump’s criticisms since he withdrew from the presidential race over the summer, The Post said.
“Over the past four years, Kamala Harris has orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted upon the people of the United States. It’s true,” Trump told the crowd.
“It’s not even believable: the worst people in the world. I used this term yesterday for the first time. I just thought of it while I’m up here. I think of a lot of things when I’m up here that aren’t on the stupid machine,” he said, pointing to the teleprompter.
“Isn’t it nice to have a president that doesn’t need a freaking teleprompter?” he added, eliciting another round of hearty cheers from the crowd.
Trump primarily concentrated on the migrant crisis during his lengthy speech but refrained from promoting his mass deportation policies.
He has previously suggested the removal of “nearly 20 million,” potentially echoing the dragnet-style sweeps of “Operation Wetback” under former President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954, which resulted in the removal of just over 1 million migrants, The Post noted further.
This week, the Biden administration instructed ICE to expedite deportations, a move that critics have condemned as an effort to improve Harris’ image ahead of the election. Republicans have countered that Biden could have issued that order years ago, or better yet, he could have chosen to leave Trump’s strict border enforcement policies in place after he took office.
Trump vowed that closing the border would be his first action if he wins the election.
“We will defend our borders and protect our citizens, and we will stop illegal immigration once and for all. We will not be invaded. We will not be occupied, we will not be overrun, we will not be conquered,” Trump told the raucous gathering.
New research shows that under the Biden-Harris regime, the Mexican cartels have made in excess of $13 billion per year — up from $500 million in 2018, when Trump was in office.
“And under the open-borders policies of the Biden-Harris administration, the cartels have made a billion dollars 13 times over. Shockingly, that number is up from just $500 million in 2018, when President Trump was in office. (Recently, The New York Times published a story that included this figure, though it was hidden down in the 17th paragraph.) When it comes to the border crisis, especially in the fraught weeks leading up to the election of 2024, I worry that Americans have become numb to the giant numbers we hear every day,” the New York Post reported.
