The Donald Trump-Kamala Harris battle took a strange turn on Thursday when the former US president questioned his rival’s intelligence and pitted himself against Martin Luther King. Trump also veered off topic several times during the lengthy press conference to make dubious claims, including allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
“The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden, and I'm not a Biden fan, but I'll tell you, from a constitutional standpoint, no matter what standpoint you look at it from, they took the presidency away… I'm not a big fan of his brain, but I think she's actually not as smart as he is… Well… uh, she's a woman. She represents certain groups of people,” he was quoted as saying in reports.
The two presidential candidates will face each other for the first time on Saturday, after Trump agreed to a televised debate with Harris.
“The largest crowd I've ever spoken to — I've spoken to the largest crowds. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he gave his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not, we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000,” he informed reporters gathered at Mar-a-Lago.
(With input from agencies)
