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Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign is blasting former President Trump’s interview with billionaire Elon Musk, saying Trump’s marketing campaign is in service of “self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class.”
Trump joined Musk on X Spaces, a reside audio chat characteristic on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter, for an interview Monday evening, though it had a shaky begin as a result of technical difficulties. Millions of individuals finally listened to the interview, in response to the reside tracker all through the dialogue.
Musk mentioned in a put up after the interview that he would even be blissful to host Harris on X Spaces.
During Monday’s interview, Musk gave Trump ample time to elucidate his stance on varied points comparable to immigration, the assassination try he survived at a marketing campaign rally final month, inflation and the thought of eliminating the Department of Education to permit states authority over faculty methods.
TRUMP CHATS WITH MUSK IN LENGTHY, OVERARCHING INTERVIEW AS HARRIS CONTINUES SNUBBING MEDIA
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign is blasting former President Trump’s interview with billionaire Elon Musk. (Getty Images)
“I want to close up the 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 mentioned, including that deep blue states like California could battle if the division is eradicated.
The Harris marketing campaign hit Trump following the interview for the coverage proposals the previous president touched on and took a jab over the technical difficulties the X Space endured.
“Donald Trump’s extremism and dangerous Project 2025 agenda is a feature not a glitch of his campaign, which was on full display for those unlucky enough to listen in tonight during whatever that was on X.com,” Harris marketing campaign spokesperson Joseph Costello mentioned in a press release. “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.”
Project 2025 is a controversial initiative organized by conservative assume tank the Heritage Foundation that was authored by various conservatives, together with some former Trump administration officers.
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Trump joined Musk on X Spaces, a reside audio chat characteristic on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter, for an interview Monday evening. (Getty Images)
The initiative affords right-wing coverage suggestions for Trump ought to he win the presidency, together with changing civil service staff with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI packages, reducing funding for Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting abortion as well being care and infusing the federal government with Christian values.
Trump has sought to distance himself from the initiative, which has been criticized as being an authoritarian and Christian nationalist plan that will undermine civil liberties, saying he is aware of nothing about it, that elements of it are “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal” and that its backers are on the “radical right.”
Monday marked Trump’s return to X after practically a 12 months of not posting on the social media platform, posting a collection of marketing campaign adverts previous to the interview with Musk.
Before Musk bought X in 2022, Trump was suspended from the platform following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, when the platform was nonetheless referred to as Twitter. But even after Musk reinstated his account, Trump’s solely put up was sharing his mugshot in August of final 12 months.
Harris’ marketing campaign mentioned Trump’s marketing campaign is “in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class.” (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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“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’ll stop crime,” Trump mentioned in direction of the top of the interview.
Trump additionally addressed President Biden’s resolution final month to droop his re-election marketing campaign, saying it was a Democratic “coup” that pressured the president to step apart. Biden’s resolution got here amid strain from Democrats to drop out of the race over issues about his psychological acuity.
“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 mentioned.
“They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him,” Musk responded earlier than Trump criticized Biden as “the worst president in history.”
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
