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6 thunderous Trump takedowns that got serious love from DNC Crowd
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Vice President Kamala Harris closed a historic Democratic National Convention on Thursday with a speech laying out her vision for America’s future.
And a number of DNC speakers used the hours leading up to Harris to scorch former President Donald Trump.
The Rev. Al Sharpton told the Chicago audience that the only thing the GOP nominee has been consistent about is “making himself richer” and “sowing division to get that done.”
“This guy sat here in Chicago a few weeks ago and refused to apologize for claims that immigrants were taking black jobs,” said Sharpton of Trump, asked about his “Black Jobs” comments during his chaotic appearance at the National Association of Black. Journalists’ convention last month.
“Well, in November we’re going to show him when the blacks do their work.”
Sharpton’s speech was followed by comments from Yusef Salaam, a member of the acquitted “Central Park Five” who was wrongly accused of a 1989 attack. Before the group’s trial, Trump said paid $85,000 for a full-page newspaper advertisement calls on New York to reinstate the death penalty.
Salaam, now a New York City Councilman, declared that America will “finally say goodbye to that hateful man” when “they see us.”
“We will say what I said after seven long years of wrongful imprisonment: finally free, finally free, finally free, thank God, we are finally free,” Salaam said.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), the first member of Congress from Generation Z, later took the DNC stage where he emphasized that it is “patriotic” to fight climate change before turning to the GOP nominee.
“Unlike Donald Trump, our patriotism is more than some damn slogan on a hat. It’s about caring about the people who live in this country,” Frost said as the crowd erupted in applause for the shot.
In addition to lawmakers, celebrities also challenged Trump, including actor and comedian DL Hughley, who ripped the former president over his racist claim that Harris “accidentally turned black.”
“Now of course Trump says Kamala is not black. I guarantee you this: Kamala has been black for much longer than Trump has been a Republican,” Hughley joked in reference to the former president switching political parties several times.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), meanwhile, used her DNC speech to respond to Trump’s attacks on her, calling her “that woman from Michigan.”
Gretchen has worn a t-shirt before with Trump’s attack written on it and told CBS Sunday Morning last year that the best way to disarm a bully is to “take their weapon and make it your shield.”
And that’s what she planned to do after wiping the dirt from her shoulders about the “insult” on Thursday.
“Being a Michigan woman is a badge of honor,” Whitmer told the crowd in Chicago.
Harris, in her speech closing the DNC, detailed how Trump’s Supreme Court picks led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and warned that the former president could join his allies in limiting access to contraception and “passing a nationwide law could enter. abortion ban, with or without Congress.”
“And get this – get this, he plans to appoint a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on female miscarriages and abortions. Simply put, they are crazy,” Harris said.
‘And you have to wonder, you have to wonder: why don’t they trust women anyway? Well, we trust women.”