Former US President Donald Trump, who is trying to reconnect with journalists by increasing his public appearances, attacked the economic record of the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, at a press conference on Thursday.
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“Young people are devastated by what (the Biden administration) has done to our country,” Trump said late in the afternoon, noting the prices of many items on the shelves of American grocery stores and retailers that have been greatly affected by inflation.
From his golf resort in New Jersey, Donald Trump accused his new rival of wanting to implement measures “straight out of Venezuela or the Soviet Union” to counter rising prices.
“Kamala is proposing communist laws to control prices. If they worked, I would support them, but they actually have the opposite effect. They lead to food shortages, rationing and starvation,” the Republican candidate added.
Inflation is falling in the United States and growth remains robust, but that does not prevent Donald Trump from constantly accusing his opponents of having crushed households with an unbearable cost of living.
“Since March 2022, middle-class families have lost an average of $33,000 in wealth,” he said.
Surrounded by boxes of cereal, eggs and pastries, he engaged in a particularly disjointed speech to “immediately lower prices” if he were to win in November.
Before launching into tirades evoking pell-mell immigration, artificial intelligence and his legal troubles.
The billionaire also developed another angle of attack, emphasizing the animosity that he believes exists between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. He accused the vice president on Thursday of having “stolen” the nomination and staged a “putsch” against Joe Biden.
-With the collaboration of AFP
