“Hateful” and “harmful”: Trump blasted for calling Kamala Harris “mentally disabled”
SalonFormer President Donald Trump on Saturday falsely called Vice President Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” after Democrats accused him of cognitive decline. Trump attacked Harris over border security, calling her “mentally impaired” while blaming her for crimes committed by immigrants. If a Republican did what she did, that Republican would be impeached and removed from office, and rightfully so, for high crimes and misdemeanors,” he said during a speech in Prairie du Chien, Wis. “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Maria Town, CEO and president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, said Trump’s remarks “say far more about him and his inaccurate, hateful biases against disabled people than it does about Vice President Harris, or any person with a disability.” “Trump holds the ableist, false belief that if a person has a disability, they are less human and less worthy of dignity,” she said in a statement to The Washington Post.