Trump's violent gaffe-filled speech involves Harris — and a machete
Former President Donald Trump on Friday expressed his appreciation for the physical beauty of young girls who had been knifed to death, slammed President Joe Biden for refusing to discuss in 2020 the death of a woman killed in 2024, and suggested Vice President Kamala Harris had approached two children with a machete.
Trump delivered an anti-immigrant speech Friday in Texas that frequently veered away from detailing gruesome deaths at the hands of immigrants to throw questionable insults at political rivals.
"They killed two young students walking to school, two beautiful young women, young girls and they got them walking to school and they knifed them up and cut them up," Trump said.
"You know who got rid of them? [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. Their friends from ICE. They work so well. And Kamala wants. ICE is. You know what ICE is? Tough people that love our country. They have to be tough."
The Republican presidential nominee frequently struggled to return to the subject at hand, as was witnessed when he tried to pivot away from attacking Harris' running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) back to describing more violent deaths.
"How about the guy she's got? I'm not sure, might be worse than her, well, she lived by the adage, 'Always get yourself a bad V.P'" Trump said. "She's got one, very happy with that choice but didn't know as bad as they did. He's a disaster."
Then Trump said, "But Kamala approached two 13-year-old children with, think of this—"
Earlier in the speech — between describing an autistic woman's rape and strangling death and this attack on two teenagers — Trump took a moment to explain to the crowd why he referred to the Democratic presidential nominee by her first name.
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"In New York this past summer, an illegal alien released into our custody came into our country by Kamala," Trump began. "I never use the word Harris because nobody knows who I am talking about — when I say Harris, they say, 'Who is Harris?"
Harris, to viewers who missed Trump's attempt to walk back his gaffe with the words "the people she let in," apparently was the person responsible for a violent crime, as described in detail by the former president.
"These people she let in, with machetes, knives, guns, in broad daylight, forced them into the woods, tied them up together, their wrists, everything, raped a young girl, park," Trump said.
"Filmed the entire thing, put it on camera, put it out for everybody to see, badly injured this person, and somebody with her too, really badly."
Trump then pivoted to the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February of this year and the subsequent arrest of Jose Antonio Ibarra, a man who officials say entered the country illegally.
"In Georgia this year, and you know this, everybody knows this, except Biden, he didn't know how to pronounce her name after pressure 'cause he didn't talk about it either elections," Trump said. "He refused to talk about it, then he was actually forced to because it got so crazy."
Despite the fact that Biden's first presidential election was in 2020 — four years before Riley's death — Trump slammed his former opponent for not doing what he did in 2024.
"In Georgia this year, an illegal alien criminal with ties to Tren de Aragua, kidnapped, assaulted and murdered a brilliant young nursing student, Laken Riley, remember? Laken Riley," Trump said.
"Who was a beautiful — I got to meet the parents a couple of times they're incredible but they're, like, devastated. You know, you can't really say, 'Well everything will be' — it's not going to be okay, it's not good, it's just, there is nothing you can say. Really. A lot of times they say, like to Alexis, 'What can I say?' The only thing we can do is do something about it so it doesn't happen again."
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