Former US president, Donald Trump on Tuesday lost his temper after the country’s incumbent Vice President, Kamala Harris put him on defensive.
Attacks on abortion restrictions, his suitability for office, and his numerous legal issues followed as both candidates looked for a moment to turn the tide of their closely contested race.
Former prosecutor Harris,59, seemed to consistently irritate his contestant, causing a visibly irate Trump,78, to respond with a litany of lies.
She once brought up Trump’s campaign rallies, provoking him with the comment that attendees frequently depart early “out of exhaustion and boredom.”
She also engaged in a heated confrontation with her Republican opponent during their televised presidential debate, accusing Donald Trump of lying and “insulting the women of America” with his policies and remarks on abortion.
Harris responded, “You’re going to hear a bunch of lies,” before brushing off Trump’s assertion that people on both sides of the aisle wanted the Supreme Court to reverse the 1973 decision establishing the constitutional right to an abortion.
Harris urged people to “understand what that means,” accusing the Republican former president of helping to implement “Trump abortion bans that make no exception, even for rape and incest” in various places around the nation.
“A survivor of a crime of violation to their body does not have the right to make a decision about what happens to their body next.
“You want to talk about this is what people wanted, pregnant women who want to carry pregnancy to term, suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room because the healthcare providers are afraid they might go to jail and she’s bleeding out in a car in the parking lot.
“They didn’t want that. Her husband didn’t want that. A 12- or 13-year-old survivor of incest, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term? You don’t want that.”
Earlier, she stated, “Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v Wade, and they did exactly as he intended.”
If she were elected president, she would keep her word and restore Roe. “Every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal-conservative—they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states,” insisted Trump.
Even after the moderators of the ABC News debate refuted that claim, he continued to contend that it takes “courage” to carry out the action and that Democrats are permitting the execution of newborns.
The remark, according to Harris, was “insulting to the women of America.” He shifted to criticize Harris over student debt when the moderator questioned him on a comment made by his running mate, JD Vance, in which he stated that Trump would not sign a nationwide abortion ban if it came to his desk as president.
Written by Jennifer Amarachi
