Former President Donald Trump said that he’s “entitled” to personally attack Vice President Kamala Harris because he doesn’t “have a lot of respect for her.”

Speaking with reporters at a news conference at his golf club at Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon, Trump was asked if he believed his “strategy” of attacking his political opponents was working in his reelection campaign.

“I’m very angry at her, that she weaponized the justice system against me and other people,” the former president responded.

“I think I am entitled to personal attacks,” Trump added. “I don’t have a lot of respect for [Harris]. I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence, and I think she’ll be a terrible president.”

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    Yes, Donald. That’s called the First Amendment. It’s part of that pesky Constitution thing you’ve never bothered to read.

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    “Because I’m a piece of shit, I get to act like a piece of shit. Get it?”

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    What a weird guy. He should keep up the personal attacks, they’re clearly working. 🙃

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    Can’t we just put trump and Harris on one of bezos’ penis rockets to space and try to get by without a president ? Maybe send Congress and the Senate with them so they don’t get lonely.

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    I mean, he is right about that. He can attack her however he wants. People don’t have to like it though. There will be consequences. He is entitled to those, too.

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    and I think she’ll be a terrible president."

    So he’s thinking she’ll win, interesting.

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    Oh hey he said the lifelong philosophy. He’s entitled. A somewhat rich entitled asshole.

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      May they all take a submarine ride together: Trump, Bezos, Musk, Thiel, Gates, Zuckerberg, and all their friends.

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    Trump said Thursday that Walz has “had a terrible career” and called him “a weird guy,” adding that Harris was “weird in her policy.”

    I love this so much. His best retort is “no, you’re weird!”.

    Um so pumped to see him lose the ejection, and then go to jail, and then become irrelevant, and then die.

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      “Oh, so we can just steal ‘weird’ and turn it against them, like we did ‘fake news’ and ‘fascist’ and all the others, right?”

      Followed by:

      “Look at these weird liberals who want health care and don’t think of women as cattle!”

      #winning, Donald and JD. Never stop never stopping.

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        I’ve been doing this with them for a while. They get mad when you call em snowflakes and just hit em with no u.

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      Pump the brakes on that excitement. I don’t know how old you are, but let me tell or remind you that voters were this excited in 2016 too, and spoiler alert, he won.

      Harris does not have that big of a lead. Let’s get excited after she actually wins.

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        Without looking it up, can you tell me who Hillary’s vp pick was?

        Her most memorable moment was calling Trump supporters deplorables but she immediately walked it back.

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          Tim Kaine.

          I did not realize “don’t celebrate too early like we did in 2016” would be a hot take.

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            You didn’t say celebrate. You said excited.

            People are excited. Possibly more excited than when Obama was running.

            Trump has been pouting about how excited everyone is so telling people not to get too excited sounds a lot like what Trump is ranting about.

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        I wasn’t anywhere near this excited to see every imaginable bad thing happen to him back then.

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        The only arguments reactionaries have are “no u” and “nuh-uh.”

        I had more stimulating debates at the middle school lunch table.

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        That’s all these fascist fucks ever have.

        Which is why they have to coopt every movement/slogan created by the left

        & twist it into their own fucked shit.

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      Um so pumped to see him lose the ejection

      I dunno if that’s a Freudian slip or intentional, but either way it’s funny as hell.

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    “I’m very angry at her, that she weaponized the justice system against me and other people,” the former president responded.

    Mah dude, you are a convicted felon.

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      Convicted by the state, no less. His federal charges haven’t even been tried yet. Even the President couldn’t pardon him from his conviction.

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      Yeah, but she’s simultaneously so powerful that she convinced several elected officials in New York to risk prison time by attacking one of her political opponents in exchange for…? Nothing? And oh by the way, he wasn’t her actual political opponent when the prosecution started, 4D chess over there.

      But also so stupid she couldn’t pass the bar exam and can’t form a complete sentence without a teleprompter.

      Get with it folks!

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      She suddenly has/had so much power, apparently, considering she’s VP.

      I sure miss those days when all those great VPs whose names no one recalls wielded such massive power…

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        But have you ever taken out a full page ad to insist that a certain group of black people are responsible for a crime even when you had no idea whether or not that was the case?

        Oh wait. What were we talking about?