Former President Trump painted a dystopian picture of California as crime-ridden, water-starved and flooded with immigrants within the nation illegally, which he forged as a warning about what is going to occur to the nation if Kamala Harris is elected president.
“I’m right here immediately in California with a quite simple message for the American folks: We can not permit comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California,” he instructed reporters Friday from his bluff-top golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, with the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island within the background. “The state of California is a multitude, with folks leaving, and nothing’s gonna cease them.”
Trump stated if he had been elected, he would cease sending California federal firefighting help until Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to repeatedly as “Newscum,” enacted his coverage priorities on points similar to water and taxes.
“These fields are going to be all inexperienced as a substitute of 1% inexperienced. And possibly much more essential, you’re not going to have unlawful immigrants pouring into your nation and killing your loved ones. You’re not going to have the issues that you’ve got proper now. We’re going to decrease your taxes. … However with this group, every little thing is useless. … The water coming right here is useless, and if he doesn’t signal these papers, we gained’t give him cash to place out all his fires. And if we don’t give him all the cash to place out the fires, he’s acquired issues,” Trump stated in response to a query about serving to People combating pure disasters, similar to wildfires in California, with out specifying which papers he was referring to. “He’s a awful governor.”
Newsom responded on X that Trump was revealing who he was.
“Each voter must be made conscious of this. @realDonaldTrump simply admitted he’ll block emergency catastrophe funds to settle political vendettas,” Newsom wrote. “As we speak it’s California’s wildfires. Tomorrow it may very well be hurricane funding for North Carolina or flooding help for owners in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump doesn’t care about America — he solely cares about himself.”
Regardless of dropping the 2020 presidential by 5 million votes in California, the previous president claimed he would win the state if votes had been correctly counted.
“You don’t have an trustworthy voting system. They ship out thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of ballots. They go everywhere,” he stated. “You may have a really dishonest system over right here. If I ran with an trustworthy vote counter in California, I’d win California.”
There isn’t a proof to counsel elections in California or another state have been carried out improperly, and voters have overwhelmingly favored Democratic candidates in statewide votes for a few years.
Trump pledged to extend Californians’ entry to water if elected.
“I’m going to offer you extra water than virtually anyone has, and the farmers up north are going to have the ability to use 100% of their land, not 1% of their land, and the water goes to return all the way in which all the way down to Los Angeles, and also you’re going to have extra water than you ever noticed,” Trump stated. “So California, vote for Trump, and also you’re going to have water, and also you’re going to have development, and also you’re going to have prosperity.”
In his first information convention since his debate with Harris on Tuesday, Trump spoke for greater than an hour. He repeatedly railed on the moderators as biased, claiming he gained — although post-debate polls counsel in any other case — and likewise pledged he would order mass deportations, beginning in Ohio and Colorado, if elected.
Ohio is the house of Springfield, which has a big inhabitants of Haitian immigrants. Trump claimed through the debate that they had been consuming folks’s pets, an unfounded assertion that has been rebutted by native officers. Requested in regards to the metropolis receiving bomb threats within the aftermath of his debate remarks, Trump stated, “The true menace is what’s taking place at our border.”
Trump was repeatedly requested about his affiliation with far-right activist Laura Loomer, who has earned the ire of some Republicans for selling conspiracy theories and bigoted rhetoric.
Earlier than the talk, Loomer wrote on X that if Harris wins, “the White Home will scent like curry & White Home speeches shall be facilitated through a name heart.”
Trump stated he was unfamiliar with what Loomer wrote, however stated she was a supporter and held sturdy opinions. When a reporter famous that Loomer had been seen touring on his aircraft, Trump responded, “Lots of people do. It’s a really huge aircraft.”
Throughout a information convention stuffed with darkish imagery and indignant pronouncements, Trump additionally discovered time to brag about his golf course.
“It’s world championship course, it fronts on the Pacific Ocean. … Only a few programs entrance on the Pacific Ocean,” he stated. “I’ve the ocean; Pebble Seashore has the bay. The ocean’s higher than the bay.”
Donald Trump leaves the information convention at his Trump Nationwide Golf Membership on Friday.
(Christina Home/Los Angeles Occasions)
Trump purchased the golf course in 2002 for the discounted value of $27 million after the 18th gap fell into the Pacific three years earlier. The property performed a job in Trump’s New York fraud trial, with the state lawyer common suing Trump, three of his kids and his firm for allegedly inflating the membership’s worth and conservation easement as a part of a broader lawsuit that included different Trump properties throughout the nation.
The previous president is looking for to construct as many as 23 houses across the golf course, which is a half-mile from the energetic slide space. His marketing campaign stated it was “monitoring” circumstances within the metropolis.
The Harris marketing campaign referred to as Trump’s look “weird.”
“Donald Trump took his trainwreck on the talk stage straight to California,” stated marketing campaign spokesman James Singer. “In a rambling, defensive, typically incoherent occasion to advertise his golf course, he but once more confirmed the nation how he’s melting down.”
The golf course is in Rancho Palos Verdes, a metropolis that’s underneath a state of emergency issued by Newsom this month due to excessive land motion triggered by back-to-back wet winters.
A whole bunch of houses close by have had their electrical energy and gasoline minimize off. Neighborhoods close to the golf course are underneath a city-issued evacuation warning, with the fissured land transferring about 9 to 12 inches every week and homes cracking and sliding off their foundations.
John Cruikshank, town’s mayor, met with Trump and spoke briefly in regards to the want for state and federal help to shore up the land.
Trump was within the midst of a two-day fundraising swing by Harris’ residence state. On Thursday, donors paid as much as $250,000 to attend an occasion in Beverly Hills.
The previous president is scheduled to attend a Friday afternoon fundraiser within the Bay Space hosted by relations of Newsom’s spouse. {Couples} are being requested to pay as much as $500,000 to attend the Woodside occasion hosted by Tom and Stacey Siebel. Tom Siebel is a billionaire software program developer and businessman who has donated tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} to Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign and is a second cousin as soon as eliminated of Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the Democratic governor’s spouse.
On Thursday, Trump referred to as the talk “a monumental time,” telling an viewers in Tucson that he gained. He lambasted the moderators and falsely claimed Harris helps permitting infants to be killed after beginning and wished to confiscate folks’s weapons. He additionally hammered on immigration — one in all his marketing campaign’s prime points and an essential one within the border state.
“Folks stated I used to be indignant on the debate,” Trump stated. “And sure I’m indignant, as a result of he allowed 21 million unlawful aliens invading our communities,” he added, apparently referring to President Biden.
Trump introduced a brand new financial plan, “no tax on extra time.” He has already referred to as for an finish to taxes on suggestions and on Social Safety advantages.
“That offers folks extra incentive to work,” Trump stated about his new proposal. “The individuals who work extra time are among the many hardest-working residents of our nation, and for too lengthy, nobody in Washington has been looking for them.”
