{"id":23942,"date":"2024-08-13T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=23942"},"modified":"2024-08-13T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T12:01:57","slug":"kamala-harris-campaign-criticizes-trump-for-serving-self-obsessed-rich-guys-after-interview-with-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=23942","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign criticizes Trump for serving \u2018self-obsessed rich guys\u2019 after interview with Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 presidential campaign is blasting former President Trump\u2019s interview with billionaire Elon Musk, saying Trump\u2019s campaign is in service of \u2018self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class.\u2019
\nTrump joined Musk on X Spaces, a live audio chat feature on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, for an interview Monday night, although it had a shaky start due to technical difficulties. Millions of people ultimately listened to the interview, according to the live tracker throughout the discussion.
\nMusk said in a post after the interview that he would also be happy to host Harris on X Spaces.
\nDuring Monday\u2019s interview, Musk gave Trump ample time to explain his stance on various issues such as immigration, the assassination attempt he survived at a campaign rally last month, inflation and the idea of eliminating the Department of Education to allow states authority over school systems.<\/p>\n

\u2018I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states \u2026 Of the 50 [states], I would bet that 35 would do great. And 15 of them, or, you know, 20 of them, will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great,\u2019 Trump said, adding that deep blue states like California may struggle if the department is eliminated.
\nThe Harris campaign hit Trump following the interview for the policy proposals the former president touched on and took a jab over the technical difficulties the X Space endured.
\n\u2018Donald Trump\u2019s extremism and dangerous Project 2025 agenda is a feature not a glitch of his campaign, which was on full display for those unlucky enough to listen in tonight during whatever that was on X.com,\u2019 Harris campaign spokesperson Joseph Costello said in a statement. \u2018Trump\u2019s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself \u2014 self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.\u2019
\nProject 2025 is a controversial initiative organized by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation that was authored by a number of conservatives, including some former Trump administration officials.<\/p>\n

The initiative offers right-wing policy recommendations for Trump should he win the presidency, including replacing civil service employees with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, cutting funding for Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting abortion as health care and infusing the government with Christian values.
\nTrump has sought to distance himself from the initiative, which has been criticized as being an authoritarian and Christian nationalist plan that would undermine civil liberties, saying he knows nothing about it, that parts of it are \u2018absolutely ridiculous and abysmal\u2019 and that its backers are on the \u2018radical right.\u2019
\nMonday marked Trump\u2019s return to X after nearly a year of not posting on the social media platform, posting a series of campaign ads prior to the interview with Musk.
\nBefore Musk purchased X in 2022, Trump was suspended from the platform following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, when the platform was still known as Twitter. But even after Musk reinstated his account, Trump\u2019s only post was sharing his mugshot in August of last year.
\n\u2018This country is going down, and these people are bad people that we\u2019re running against. And they\u2019re liars. They make statements. They do things that are so bad. They say they\u2019re going to make a strong border. They say they\u2019ve been great on the border, and they\u2019ve been the worst in history. They say they\u2019ll stop crime,\u2019 Trump said towards the end of the interview.
\nTrump also addressed President Biden\u2019s decision last month to suspend his re-election campaign, saying it was a Democratic \u2018coup\u2019 that pressured the president to step aside. Biden\u2019s decision came amid pressure from Democrats to drop out of the race over concerns about his mental acuity.
\n\u2018This was a coup. This was a coup of a president of the United States. He didn\u2019t want to leave, and they said, \u2018We can do it the nice way, or we can do it the hard way,\u201d Trump said.
\n\u2018They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him,\u2019 Musk responded before Trump criticized Biden as \u2018the worst president in history.\u2019
\nFox News\u2019 Emma Colton contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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