Donald Trump went after Oprah Winfrey late Saturday evening and instructed that the media mogul was embarrassed whereas talking with Vice President Kamala Harris throughout a current live-streamed marketing campaign occasion.
“When I watched her interview yesterday with a woman who is destroying, through her complete and total incompetence, America, I couldn’t help but think this isn’t the real Oprah,” wrote the GOP nominee on his Fact Social platform.
He continued, “This isn’t a person that wants millions of people, from prisons and mental institutions, and terrorists, drug dealers, and human traffickers, from all over the World, pouring into our Country.”
The previous president added that his Democratic opponent “looked really foolish” and the media mogul “just wanted to crawl under a table.”
Trump, earlier within the put up, additionally falsely claimed that he appeared together with his household on the ultimate week of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
The previous president — who has made the declare a number of occasions for over a decade — appeared in an episode that aired in February 2011, over three months earlier than the present got here to an finish.
Trump’s remarks come after Harris spoke with Winfrey on Thursday and mentioned a number of matters on the occasion together with immigration, abortion, the financial system and gun violence.
The occasion garnered greater than 300,000 viewers through the YouTube livestream, the Related Press famous, and featured appearances by plenty of celebrities together with Meryl Streep, Bryan Cranston, Tracee Ellis Ross and Jennifer Lopez.
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Trump, in earlier remarks at a North Carolina rally on Saturday, declared that Winfrey “didn’t know what the hell to do” in response to Harris on the occasion.
“Oprah was, like, embarrassed, she wanted to hide under the table but she’s a professional and she was able to sort of disguise it. No, she wanted to go right under the table,” he informed his supporters.
Winfrey, who has endorsed Harris and spoke on the Democratic Nationwide Conference final month, known as on “all decent people” and “caring people” to answer the second towards the tip of the occasion with Harris.
“This is the moment that people who are tired of all of the bickering and all of the name calling, people who are exhausted by the craziness and the made-up stories and the conspiracies,” she mentioned.
“This is the moment. You want to get on with your life because you know that we can do better and that we deserve better.”
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