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Former President Donald Trump is out of his depth facing the prospect of running against Vice President Kamala Harris instead of President Joe Biden, wrote his niece Mary Trump in her latest email blast — and he's "terrified."

[...] "Donald also hates women (especially strong women) and minorities, so you can see why current Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris terrifies him to the point of incoherence. He says she’s 'crazy,'" Mary Trump says.

She continues: "His childish nickname for her is 'laughing Kamala' because she feels joy, and joy is something he [Donald Trump] has never experienced and doesn’t understand. Faced with the reality that he is now running against a vibrant, intelligent, experienced woman who is fully two decades younger than he is, Donald spent Sunday and Monday flailing, trying to find an angle of attack that would stick."

He's so lost trying to figure out what to do, she added, that he's even continuing to attack Biden, despite knowing Biden has already decided to exit the race.

Combine that with the fact that Democrats have seen a massive surge in donor support and that tech billionaire Elon Musk appears to be backing out of his plan to give a pro-Trump PAC $45 billion a month, Ms. Trump wrote, "Donald and his sycophants, enablers, and backers are scared."

"And they should be," she noted.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"incoherence" so, no change?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm a Trump hater but this sounds like serious exaggeration

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Elon Musk appears to be backing out of his plan to give a pro-Trump PAC $45 billion a month

$45 BILLION a month? That's not a small typo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Indeed, this was announced at the end of last month/beginning of this month, it's been circling around for a few weeks now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yes, but it was supposed to say 45 million, not billion.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh no, not laughing Kamala! Anything but laughing Kamala!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I refuse to vote for anyone who laughs. My president must, like me, live an ascetic life devoid of humor and hedonism 😤

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Laughing Kamala and dour don.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That will certainly make the upcoming debates even more entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No way in hell they let him speak to an adult that can string together coherent sentences in public

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I really doubt he will agree to another debate. But the best way for it to begin would be at the beginning, when they thank everyone for making it happen, if she thanked Trump for his donations to her previous campaigns. She wouldn't be there if it weren't for donors like him.

It would immediately piss him off for the entire event.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it could get better, according to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: "Trump is going to have to get used to hearing Harris’ prosecutor record"

Here is a video (17 min): https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=5JbXbqe5t_w

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love how the election's setting turned to "two old guys (one of which is a convicted felon)" to "convicted felon vs prosecutor" in just few days.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd love it if her record as a prosecutor weren't so lopsided against truants and nonviolent drug users, but it's objectively better than having two candidates in clear cognitive decline.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Just remember that the non-violent drug users were likely part of the Back on Track program, in which they would accept the felony in the promise that it would be expunged after completing the program.