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Fox News nationwide correspondent Bryan Llenas experiences on the anticipation surrounding former President Trump’s no-holds barred interview with Elon Musk on X on ‘Special Report.’
Former President Donald Trump spoke with tech billionaire Elon Musk in an overarching, prolonged interview Monday night on X as Vice President Kamala Harris continues avoiding the media since touchdown on the highest of the Democratic ticket for the White House.
“It’s pretty sad when you think that somebody that does this for a living can’t answer a question or is afraid to do an interview, and in her case, with a very friendly interview. She’s got all friendly interviewers,” Trump stated of Harris Monday night throughout his roughly two-hour interview with Musk on X Space.
Trump’s feedback come as Harris has averted the media for 22 days. She has snubbed formal press conferences or sit-down interviews, together with for a Time journal cowl story, since she emerged because the DNC’s nominee for the White House after President Biden dropped out of the race final month.
“She is considered more liberal, by far, than Bernie Sanders. She’s a radical-left lunatic. And if she’s going to be our president, very quickly you’re not going to have a country anymore. And she’ll go back to all the things that she believes in. She believes in defunding the police. She believes in no fracking, zero,” Trump added of Harris.
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Trump’s interview with Musk kicked off after 8:30 p.m. Monday, following a “massive” distributed denial-of-service assault on the platform that triggered delays, Musk defined on X. More than 1 million individuals in the end listened to the interview in keeping with the stay tracker all through the dialogue.
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The two held a laid again interview, the place Musk prompted Trump with matters earlier than the forty fifth president was supplied ample time to elaborate on coverage points akin to immigration, the assassination try on his life final month, spiraling inflation and shutting the Department of Education in favor of states taking the mantle on faculty techniques.
Vice President Kamala Harris says her cursing behavior has gotten worse since she entered workplace. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
“I want to close up Department of Education, move education back to the states. … Of the 50 [states], I would bet that 35 would do great. And 15 of them, or, you know, 20 of them, will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great,” Trump stated, whereas noting left-wing states akin to California may battle if he does remove the DOE.
The forty fifth president additionally spoke at size with Musk concerning the present state of immigration within the U.S.
“I believe it’s over 20 million people came into our country. Many coming from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions, or a bigger version of that is insane asylums. And many are terrorists. And I’ll tell you what, they’re coming not just from South America. They’re coming from Africa. They’re coming from all over the world. They’re coming from Asia. They’re coming from the Middle East,” Trump informed Musk, who endorsed Trump earlier this 12 months.
Trump stated that regardless of Harris’ latest rhetoric to deal with the spiraling migrant disaster on the border, she and Biden have had years to deal with migration however “won’t do anything.”
“She had three and a half years, and by the way, they have another five months that they can do something. But they won’t do anything. It’s all talk. She’s incompetent and he’s incompetent. And frankly, I think that she’s more incompetent than he is, and that’s saying something, because he’s not too good,” he stated.
On the subject of immigration, Trump additionally credited a slide his marketing campaign made exhibiting immigration stats for saving his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, final month throughout a rally, when shooter Thomas Crooks tried to assassinate him. The forty fifth president appeared over to the slide on immigration knowledge when Crooks opened fireplace, which narrowly saved his life because the place of his head had abruptly modified.
“That slide — illegal immigration saved my life,” he informed Musk. “The incredible thing is that the chart, I used it less than 20% of the time. It was just a moment.”
“It’s always to my left, never my right, and it’s always at the end of the speech,” Trump added of the place of the slide.
“I’m going to sleep with that chart always,” he joked.
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The interview, billed as “a conversation” between X (previously Twitter) proprietor Elon Musk and former US President Donald Trump, initially because of begin at 1am on Tuesday, lastly acquired underway simply after 1.40am. Picture date: Tuesday August 13, 2024. (Photo by PA Wire/PA Images by way of Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Trump went on to rattle off an inventory of wars and world occasions the U.S. may have averted if Biden weren’t within the Oval Office, whereas noting he was robust on nations akin to Russia, China and North Korea and is aware of the nations’ respective leaders “well.”
“First of all, the Israeli attack would have never happened. Russia would never have attacked Ukraine, and we’d have no inflation, and we wouldn’t have had the Afghanistan mess, if you think of it well … if you take a few of those events away, and we have a different world.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping, proper, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photograph previous to their talks on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. President Putin will make a two-day state go to to China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo by way of AP, File)
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He pointed to his tweets again in 2017 when he slammed North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as “little rocket man” as tensions heightened between the 2 nations amid a sequence of North Korea missile and nuclear exams.
In this picture offered by the North Korean authorities, North Korean chief Kim Jong Un attends at a gathering of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 28, 2022. Independent journalists weren’t given entry to cowl the occasion depicted on this picture distributed by the North Korean authorities. The content material of this picture is as offered and can’t be independently verified. Korean language watermark on picture as offered by supply reads: “KCNA” which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service by way of AP)
“I had that problem worked out very quickly,” Trump stated of North Korea. “It was nasty in the beginning with Rocket Man … [Jong-Un] stated he has a purple button on his desk. I stated, ‘I have a red button on my desk too, but my red button is much bigger, and my red button works.’ And then I referred to as him ‘Little Rocket Man.'”
“Anyway, here’s the bottom line. All of a sudden, I got a call from him, and they said they want to meet, they wanted to meet me. And we met … and I got along with him great. We were in no danger, but President Obama thought we were gonna end up in a war, a nuclear war, with him,” he said.
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The Biden administration would support the elimination of taxes on tipped wages, an idea first proposed by former President Trump, the White House said. (Left: (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))
Trump also addressed Biden’s exit from the 2024 race, saying it was a Democratic “coup” that pressured Biden to drop out. Biden dropped out of the running last month as concerns mounted surrounding his mental acuity and 81 years of age and Democrats and traditional allies of the party called on him to exit the race.
“This was a coup. This was a coup of a president of the United States. He didn’t want to leave, and they said, ‘We can do it the nice way, or we can do it the hard way,'” Trump said.
“They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him,” Musk added before Trump slammed Biden as “the worst president in history.”
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Trump made a return to X, previously Twitter, earlier on Monday after practically a 12 months of not posting on his once-favored social media platform. Before X offered to Musk in 2022, Trump was suspended from his Twitter account following the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He seldom posted on the platform after Musk reinstated his account, solely sharing his mugshot in August of final 12 months.
Former President Donald Trump informed Columbia Journalism Review he needed to battle off “unbelievably fake stories” throughout his presidency. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
“Are you better off now than you were when I was president? Our economy is shattered. Our border has been erased. We’re a nation in decline. Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again. Make America SAFE again. Make America GREAT Again!” Trump posted earlier Monday amid a flurry of marketing campaign advertisements.
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Ahead of his interview with Trump, Musk hyped the interview as one which “should be highly entertaining!” because it “is unscripted with no limits on subject matter.”
“This country is going down, and these people are bad people that we’re running against. And they’re liars. They make statements. They do things that are so bad. They say they’re going to make a strong border. They say they’ve been great on the border, and they’ve been the worst in history. They say they stop crime,” Trump stated in the direction of the tip of the interview.
“It’s so incredible.”
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