(Breitbart) Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president in 2024, said presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’s ongoing efforts to flip-flop her positions on several major issues, such as energy, immigration, crime, health care, and more via press aides rather than explaining things herself, will not work for her long term.
“I don’t think that’s going to fly,” Trump said. “She can’t do a press conference.”
Trump’s comments came during an hour-long exclusive interview with Breitbart News here at Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious seaside resort and club, on Thursday evening. Specifically, Harris has in recent weeks had press staffers, oftentimes anonymously, issue statements across the media changing her long-held positions on everything from her support for banning fracking to her support for the radical “Medicare-for-All” healthcare vision that would destruct American healthcare plans to her positions on immigration and crime policy and more. Harris herself, though, has not explained if she actually changed on these issues and if, so why and how she changed. American voters are left to trust these many times nameless and faceless aides to Harris on her supposedly new positions since Harris continues to refuse to hold a press conference or sit for a press interview explaining herself.
The most egregious of Harris’s many recent flip-flops—which led to the New York Post cover on Monday morning calling her “Kama Kameleon”—was on fracking:
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During her 2020 Democrat presidential campaign, Harris specifically said quite clearly she would ban fracking if elected president. Then, a few weeks ago after having left that as her public position for many years, an anonymous campaign aide issued a statement to the Hillnewspaper saying never mind; she no longer supported banning fracking. The candidate herself has made no such pronouncement and has certainly not explained herself on this critically important issue to both American energy and economic policy that also has major political implications in battleground states, most notably, Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, many in media just assume she actually changed based on this anonymous aide’s commentary.
Trump, in his interview with Breitbart News, made clear that Harris’s views on energy are extreme and radical and would cripple the U.S. economy.
“On energy, she wants everything to be run by the wind,” Trump said. “It’s crazy. She will destroy our country. Germany went that path for two years under [former Chancellor] Merkel. One of the reasons that Merkel is not there anymore is that the opposing party said, ‘We’re ruining our economy.’ Wind is very expensive energy. It frankly doesn’t work. It’s intermittent if the wind is blowing. The whole thing is crazy. In Germany, they took out the coal plants and everything else, and now they’re building a plant a week under the new government. They know it doesn’t work, and yet, they consistently want to do it. They know electric trucks don’t work. They have to stop six times from New York to California. Diesel stops not once.”
