Washington : Donald Trump has described his Democratic presidential rival Kamala Harris as a "third-rate phoney candidate" and "more incompetent" than her boss President Joe Biden, amidst indications that she has erased some of his polling advantage in only three weeks as a candidate.
In a much-anticipated audio-only interview with billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk on Monday on his social media platform X which was delayed by more than 40 minutes due to technical difficulties, the 78-year-old former president said, She is a radical left lunatic," as he alleged that she wants to be more Trump than Trump.
Launching a scathing attack on the 59-year-old US Vice President, Trump, the Republican Party candidate, described Harris as a third-rate phoney candidate. He reiterated his allegation that Biden being replaced by Harris as a presidential candidate of the Democratic Party was a coup. Musk agreed with the former president and said, "Her behaviour is far left.
Musk has already endorsed Trump and indicated that he wants to see him win a second term. You are the path to prosperity. And I think Kamala is the opposite, he told Trump.
The event was billed as an interview but Trump made a series of unsubstantiated claims that went without challenge. US media outlets said Trump made at least 20 false claims during his conversation with billionaire supporter Musk.
Most of the falsehoods uttered by Trump were claims that have been repeatedly debunked before, some of them for years. They spanned a broad range of subjects, from immigration to the economy to foreign policy to Trump's record in office to Vice President Harris, his Democratic opponent, CNN reported.
"She (Harris) had three and a half years, and by the way, they have another five months that they can do something. But they won't do anything. It's all talk," Trump said. "She's incompetent, and he (Biden) is incompetent. And frankly, I think that she's more incompetent than he is, and that's saying something because he's not too good," he said.