周四下午，在他位于新泽西的贝德明斯特高尔夫俱乐部的新闻发布会上一周第二——前总统唐纳德·川普表示，他“有权”侮辱他的民主党对手——副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯——因为他不尊重她。
“我认为我有权进行人身攻击。我不太尊重她。我不太尊重她的智慧，我认为她会是一个糟糕的总统。我认为我们获胜非常重要。无论人身攻击是好是坏，我的意思是，她肯定会对我进行人身攻击。她真的说我很奇怪。他很奇怪，”他说。
“她不是——她不聪明。我不相信她热爱我们的国家，”他补充道。
“有些人说，‘哦，你为什么不好好说话?’但是他们对我不好。“他们想把我关进监狱，”特朗普抱怨道。他们不想让我变得有点下流。他们想把我关进监狱。我!"
当被问及他对哈里斯的人身攻击会如何影响他在郊区女性、温和派和无党派人士中的地位时，特朗普加倍下注，称他正在进行“一场非常冷静的竞选”。
“不，我认为，相对于他们的所作所为，相对于他们的激进程度，相对于他们的病态程度，我认为我在进行一场非常冷静的竞选。我是说，我们在这里。没有喊叫。”
特朗普首先强调了通货膨胀，并在杂货价格成本上打击了哈里斯，当时他站在两张桌子之间，桌子上摆满了谷类食品、熟食肉、牛奶、鸡蛋、婴儿配方奶粉和面包等食品，上面写着“自卡玛拉·哈里斯上任以来价格上涨。”
“哈里斯刚刚宣布解决通货膨胀将是她的首要任务。今天是第一天。但是第一天，真的，对卡玛拉来说是三年半以前。她去哪儿了?”特朗普说。
他列举了一长串他所说的各种常见杂货的高成本，但没有提供他的说法的来源，只是说这些数字来自“政府”。
在拜登-哈里斯执政期间，通胀率达到9.1%的峰值，但自那以来，与一年前相比，7月份通胀率已降至2.9%最低通货膨胀读数从2021年3月开始。
共和党总统候选人前总统唐纳德·特朗普在Trum的新闻发布会上讲话...显示更多
他最终转向谈论移民、能源和其他热门话题，发表了无数虚假言论，并在回答任何问题前讲了45分钟。
周四的新闻发布会之前特朗普上周四在他的Mar-a-Lago庄园举行他就一系列话题回答了一个多小时的问题，包括他最近对哈里斯的攻击、移民和生育权。
在与记者进行的那场漫长、有时漫无边际的交流中，特朗普经常在几个话题上发表虚假言论，包括2020年大选的结果，以及在一群亲特朗普的暴徒袭击美国国会大厦之前，他在2021年1月6日的集会上的人群规模。
“她拒绝接受任何采访或新闻发布会，几乎30天了，她没有接受采访，”特朗普周三在北卡罗来纳州谈到哈里斯时说。“你知道她为什么没有接受采访吗?因为她不聪明。她不聪明，”他说。
他的竞选团队称她正试图“躲避”新闻媒体。
特朗普最近的新闻发布会似乎是竞选团队试图在两位候选人之间进行对比的一部分。
周四，美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)的雷切尔·斯科特(Rachel Scott)问他本周早些时候对特斯拉首席执行官兼X车主埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)关于罢工工人的评论，他说，“他们罢工，你说，‘你们都走了’。”"
"公司威胁要解雇参加罢工的工人，你真的能接受吗?"斯科特问道。
特朗普说:“不，我希望公司让员工喜欢他们，并为让公司盈利的工资而工作，这样他们就可以去扩张。”
特朗普认为，他称赞马斯克是“最伟大的切割者”的言论与他主张公司威胁解雇罢工工人的主张不可同日而语-然后继续重复无证移民威胁工会工人以及黑人和西班牙裔社区的言论。
哈里斯竞选团队一直在利用特朗普的新闻发布会高光他犯了错误并批评他提倡的政策。
“特朗普做了他唯一知道该怎么做的事——他出去撒谎，编造故事，混淆日期，攻击媒体，总的来说，提醒美国人他是一个非常不健康的人，”哈里斯竞选团队在一份声明中回应特朗普之前的新闻发布会时说。
在宣布入主白宫后的竞选活动期间，哈里斯在空军二号上与记者进行了几次交流，并回答了一些大声提问;然而，她的竞选团队表示，她将在月底前参加一次静坐采访。
哈里斯-瓦尔兹竞选团队的沟通主任迈克尔·泰勒(Michael Tyler)周三在美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)上表示，“我们将致力于直接与真正决定这场选举的选民接触，这将通过集会、坐下来接受采访、召开新闻发布会以及我们拥有的所有数字资产来完成。”。
Trump says he's 'entitled' to make personal attacks on Harris, citing lack of respect
At a news conference Thursday afternoon at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey -- hissecond in a week- former President Donald Trump said he's "entitled" to insult his Democratic opponent -- Vice President Kamala Harris -- because he doesn't respect her.
"I think I am entitled to personal attacks. I do not have a lot of respect for her. I don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence, and I think she'll be a terrible president. And I think it is very important that we win. And whether the personal attacks are good, bad – I mean, she certainly attacks me personally. She actually called me weird. 'He's weird,'" he said.
"She's not -- she's not smart. I don't believe she loves our country," he added.
"Some people say, 'Oh, why don't you be nice?' But they're not nice to me. They want to put me in prison," Trump complained. "They don't want me to be a little bit nasty. They want to put me in prison. Me!"
Asked about how his personal attacks on Harris could affect his standing with suburban women, moderates, and independents, Trump doubled down, saying he's running "a very calm campaign."
"No, I think that, I think relatively to what they're doing and how radical they are and how, in many ways, how sick they are, I think I'm doing a very calm campaign. I mean, we're here. There's no shouting."
Trump began by highlighting inflation and hitting Harris on the cost of grocery prices as he stood between two tables full of food store items such as cereal, deli meat, milk, eggs, baby formula and bread with a sign saying, "Price Increases since Kamala Harris took office."
"Harris has just declared that tackling inflation will be a Day 1 priority for her. It's going to be Day 1. But Day 1, really, for Kamala was three and a half years ago. Where has she been?" Trump said.
He ticked off a long list of what he said were higher costs for a variety of common grocery items but offered no sourcing for his claims, other than saying the numbers came from "the government."
Inflation peaked at 9.1% during the Biden-Harris administration but since cooled to 2.9% in July compared to a year ago --- thelowest inflation readingsince March 2021.
He eventually veered off into talking about immigration, energy and other favorite topics, making numerous false claims and speaking for 45 minutes before taking any questions.
Thursday's news conference follows one thatTrump held at his Mar-a-Lago estate last Thursday, fielding questions for more than an hour on a range of topics including his recent attacks on Harris, immigration and reproductive rights.
During that long and, at times, rambling exchange with reporters, Trump often pushed false claims on several topics, including the outcome of the 2020 election and size of the crowd at his Jan. 6, 2021, rally before the attacks on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
"She refuses to do any interviews or press conferences, almost 30 days now, she has not done an interview," Trump said of Harris on Wednesday in North Carolina. "You know why she hasn't done an interview? Because she's not smart. She's not intelligent," he said.
His campaign says she's trying to "duck and hide" from the news media.
Trump's recent news conferences appear to be part of the campaign's attempt to draw a contrast between the two candidates.
On Thursday, ABC News' Rachel Scott asked him about comments he made to Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk earlier in the week about striking workers, saying, "they go on strike, and you go, 'You're all gone.'"
"Are you really comfortable with companies threatening to fire workers who go on strike?" Scott asked.
"No, I want companies to get workers that are going to love them and work for a wage that lets the company make a profit so they can go and expand," Trump said.
Trump argued that his comments praising Musk for being the "greatest cutter" was not comparable to assertions he was advocating for companies to threaten to fire workers who go on strike -- and then went on to repeat rhetoric that undocumented immigrants are threatening union workers and Black and Hispanic communities.
The Harris campaign has been using Trump's news conferences tohighlightflubs he has made and criticize policies he advocates.
"Trump did the only thing he knows how to do -- he went out and lied, made up stories, mixed up dates, attacked the media, and, overall, reminded Americans that he is a deeply unwell man," the Harris campaign said in a statement reacting to Trump's previous news conference.
During her time out on the campaign trail since announcing her White House bid, Harris has held a few exchanges with reporters aboard Air Force Two and answered a few shouted questions; however, her campaign says she will participate in a sit-down interview before the end of the month.
"We will commit to directly engage with the voters that are actually gonna decide this election and that is gonna be complete with rallies, with sit-down interviews, with press conferences, with all the digital assets we have at our disposal," Michael Tyler, communications director for the Harris-Walz campaign, said on CNN Wednesday when pressed multiple times to commit to press conferences and media interviews.
