Update (1153ET): The Trump campaign has responded to Axios reporting that Kamala Harris now supports a border wall.
“How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump’s border wall – this is a preposterous and false claim.”
“Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind.”
From Karoline Leavitt @kleavittnh National Press Secretary:
🚨Trump Campaign Statement on Open Border Kamala Harris
How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous… pic.twitter.com/ZCfajXafTX
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) August 27, 2024
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After presiding over the worst illegal immigration crisis in US history, failed ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris has now pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a wall at the southern US border – a plan she called “un-American” during the Trump administration.
According to Axios, which calls it the “latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions,” Harris is now embracing a ‘more hawkish’ immigration policy while the Trump campaign spends tens of millions of dollars on attack ads over the Biden-Harris administration’s failed border policies.
Last week, Harris told the Democratic National Convention that she would sign a recent bipartisan border security bill negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), which calls for hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue Trump’s wall.
“It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.”
In 2017, then-Senator Harris called Trump’s border wall project a “stupid use of money,” and committed to blocking funding for it.
Trump’s border wall is just a stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 21, 2017
Kamala Harris now says she wants a wall on our southern border if elected.
Unfortunately for her, we have receipts: pic.twitter.com/akBDYk7Qa7
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 27, 2024
Then, under her watch as the so-called “Border Czar,” illegal crossings on the southern border spiked (at least) 140% compared to numbers seen during the Trump administration, according to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
After Democrats gained control of the House in 2019, they opposed the large-scale funding Trump requested for the wall – leading to a government shutdown. Eventually, some funding was approved – but was far less than what Trump had requested. In response, Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019 to divert funds from other federal projects to the wall’s construction, which led to various legal challenges.
Last week Harris came under fire for a campaign video which prominently featured images of Trump’s partially built US-Mexico border wall, boasting that her credentials as a “border-state prosecutor” would allow her to get the job done.
🤔 What is that in this ad?
Looks like the @realDonaldTrump BORDER WALL to me! https://t.co/QeNVJNjOcD pic.twitter.com/QFugDm7bjc
— Mike Howell (@MHowellTweets) August 23, 2024
The flip-flop was so brazen that ABC News called her out on it!
🚨 ABC just CALLED OUT Kamala Harris for using video of President Trump’s border wall in her new ads
If even *ABC* is calling her out for her hypocrisy, you know it’s REALLY bad 🤣 pic.twitter.com/R9DakoOKw5
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 26, 2024
Kamala Harris on the border wall over the years:
2017: “Asking taxpayers to pay for a border wall is a terrible idea.”
2018: “Funding Trump’s unrealistic border wall would be a gross misuse of taxpayer money.”
2019: “Trump’s border wall is stupid.”
2020: “As I said, Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/RxWrRZ1MRh
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 27, 2024
Amazing…
Of course, she hasn’t changed on some things…
Kamala Harris says, if elected president, she’ll use executive action to confiscate guns if Congress doesn’t act within the first 100 days of her administration pic.twitter.com/nHa605TUy8
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 26, 2024
Tyler Durden
Tue, 08/27/2024 – 11:53
