While the spotlights were shining on the platform of the United States presidential debate, Harris played the role of judge, juror, and executioner, harassing Donald Trump at every point.
She wore a frown. Her eyes became more constricted. The woman pursed her lips. Using her fingertips, she supported her chin. In a disdainful manner, she either shook her head or threw it back. She chuckled with a tone that was a combination of bewilderment, irritability, and contempt.
After nearly ten years of committing crimes against civility, democracy, and reason, Chief Prosecutor Kamala Harris was prosecuting President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement. In addition, she did not believe his account.
Trump has been able to avoid a significant amount of legal trouble so far this year in relation to his criminal cases, but the first presidential debate, which took place in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, firmly placed him in the dock. When Harris was serving in the Senate, she used all of her previous knowledge as a lawyer to her advantage, just as she did when she was challenging Brett Kavanaugh and William Barr.
The rules allowed for no audience, which ensured a courtroom-like stillness on a stage that was put up in the National Constitution Centre and surrounded by empty seats. Debates may be boisterous spectacles, but the rules did not allow for an audience. At the curved blue lecterns, Harris and Trump stood side by side. According to the host, David Muir, “This is an intimate setting for two candidates who have never met,” which makes it seem like a highly implausible episode of Love Island.
However, it became very evident that this was not a love story. In a clever reversal of Trump’s invasion of Hillary Clinton’s personal space during a debate eight years ago, Harris rushed across the stage and pushed the former president into one of the most awkward handshakes in the history of television. This was the first time that this has happened at a presidential debate since 2016.
It was then that she announced, “Kamala Harris,” as he stammered a response. Perhaps she would have continued by saying, “Now I am Death, the Destroyer of Trumps.”
From that point on, Harris, who was dressed in a blue suit, a white pussybow top, pearl earrings, and a little gold American flag pin, took control of the stage. She served as the judge, the jury, and the executioner. Due to the fact that she had her microphones muted, she was unable to respond when Trump told ridiculous lies; yet, she was able to indicate her disgust through a variety of facial expressions.
Despite the fact that he was wearing a blue suit, white shirt, red tie, and a pin of the American flag, Trump refused to glance at her but instead focused his attention forward. Both of them were light years ahead of Joe Biden, who was staring and gaping in June over the situation.
Harris launched his assault on the economy after a few preliminary discussions on the subject. It was her assertion that Donald Trump had left us with the highest jobless rate since the Great Depression. It is the deadliest public health epidemic in a century that Donald Trump has left behind for us. Since the end of the Civil War, Donald Trump has left us with the most devastating assault on our democracy. What we have accomplished is to clean up the mess that Donald Trump has made.
He was not pleased with that. A little while later, he made an attempt to retaliate by going more personal. This woman is a Marxist. It is common knowledge that she is Marxist. The Marxist economics professor that her father is is her father. And he was a good teacher to her.”
Harris chuckled in a mocking manner and rested her chin on her palm while gazing at Trump in a manner that was reminiscent of a principle listening to the feeble justifications of a student who had set fire to the academic institution.
When it came to the former president’s weakest topic, which was abortion rights, things were about to get even worse. He asserted that the people of the United States desired the overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision. Harris, who has been travelling across the country and discussing it for the past two years, was prepared with an aria that went as follows: “You want to talk about this? Is this what people demanded?
“Who are these pregnant ladies who wish to take a pregnancy to term but are suffering from a miscarriage and are being denied care in an emergency department because the medical professionals are worried they would go to jail, and she is bleeding out in a car in the parking lot? Not at all; she desired that. Neither her spouse nor she want that. Someone who has survived incest and is now 12 or 13 years old and is being coerced into carrying a pregnancy to term? They have no interest in that.”
Following that, the discussion shifted to Trump’s purportedly strong strength, which is immigration and border security. On the other hand, Harris was similar to a prosecutor who was trying to entice a witness by constructing traps that he kept stumbling into and talking himself into a confession that would end the case.
She stated, “I’m going to actually do something really unusual, and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch.” You can find more information about what she said here. During the course of his rallies, you will notice that he makes references to fictional personalities such as Hannibal Lecter. In his discussion, he will discuss how windmills can cause cancer. Additionally, you will observe that people begin leaving his rallies early due to tiredness and boredom. This is something that you will notice. Furthermore, I will tell you that the one thing that you will not hear him talk about is you.
Regardless of the fact that it was plainly practiced with great care. In order to demonstrate that the Wizard of Oz is, in fact, a weak elderly man who is putting on a fabricated show, it was a clever approach to pull back the curtain. In addition to that, it was the ideal method for getting under Trump’s skin. Trump is more pleased with the size of his crowds than he is with his children (well, with the exception of Ivanka, but surely Eric).
He whimpered, “She said more and more people are leaving.” There aren’t many people at her rallies. Because there is no reason to go. And for those individuals who do go, she is providing transportation and remuneration for them to be there. Then presenting them in a different way after that as well. There is no way that she can discuss that. Those who attend my rallies do not leave. We organise the largest rallies, the most amazing rallies in the annals of political history.
If evidence were required to demonstrate how furious he was, Trump spread false allegations that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are kidnapping and eating dogs. His campaign and right-wing influencers were responsible for spreading these rumours. Officials have stated that there have been no reliable or detailed reports concerning the claims.
In Springfield, they are eating the dogs, the former president claimed. “They are eating the dogs.” Your honour, I offer my objection. It was brought to the attention of the moderators, who did a satisfactory job of reviewing the facts throughout the night, that the city manager of Springfield stated that there had been no reliable reports to corroborate Trump’s assertion on the matter.
but Trump has evidence! “Well, I’ve seen people on television,” he said. “According to the people on television, my dog was seized and used as food. So perhaps he said that, and it could be a wonderful thing to say for a city manager.”
The “I saw it on TV, so it must be true” justification will never hold up in court, even if it comes from a reality TV celebrity.
If this had been a true trial, the judge would have stepped in and asked Trump whether he wanted to modify his plea to guilty rather than prolonging the ordeal. However, there was no mercy on the debating stage.
Harris claimed that 81 million people fired Donald Trump. And it’s evident he’s having trouble processing that. And international leaders are laughing at Donald Trump. I’ve spoken with military leaders, some of whom worked with you. “And they call you a disgrace.”
In the past, candidates could have responded by claiming Nelson Mandela or another moral paragon was on their side. Trump reached out to Hungarian despot Viktor Orbán. “He stated that the most respected and feared person is Donald Trump. We had no problems while Trump was president.”
But Harris had more ammunition: “It is generally known that he admires dictators and claims to aspire to be a dictator from the start… And it is generally known that these dictators and autocrats want you to be president again because, as they say, they can control you with flattery and favours.”
She claimed that a despot like Putin “would eat you for lunch”.
Prosecutor Harris had done a decent job of it while also building a case for herself as president. In the post-debate spin room, the tone was a far cry from the Atlanta debate in June, when Democrats were despondent and funereal as they attempted to defend Joe Biden. This time, Republicans made poor excuses about moderators.
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas bleated, “Where were Kamala Harris’ fact checks? Where were the calls to condemn Kamala Harris and her dishonest claims tonight?” Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur, insisted: “Kamala Harris tonight was about words; Donald Trump was about running on a record of action.”
Trump made a surprise appearance to declare victory, which was about as convincing as his claims that his inaugural audience was larger than Barack Obama’s, that he defeated Joe Biden in the 2020 race, or that he can weave sentences like a genius. Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris took the spotlight from him.
Anthony Scaramucci, a former White House communications director and Trump critic, told reporters, “She dismantled him.” She treated him tenderly first and then firmly. She handled with a prosecutorial scalpel. She handled him like an American president.
“She embarrassed him and, as a human being, I actually felt bad for him towards the end because he’s too old to be running for president and he’s not cognitively there and you could see that in the 90 minutes of the debate.”
Trump’s trial was over. The verdict was guilty of American carnage. The sentence is unknown until November 5. The court of public opinion can be unpredictable. Simply ask Hillary Clinton.