Trump Says He’s Agreed To 3 Debates On 3 Different Networks, Calls Harris ‘Barely Competent’

Former President Donald Trump said during a Thursday press conference that he has agreed to three debates with three different television networks in September and is awaiting Vice President Kamala Harris’s confirmation.

During the press conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the Republican presidential nominee said he has agreed to a debate against Harris on Fox News on September 4, another debate on NBC on September 10 — which Trump described as “a fairly full agreement, subject to them” — and a third debate on ABC on September 25.

“We have spoken to the heads of the networks and it’s all been confirmed other than some fairly minor details,” Trump said.

“The other side has to agree to the terms,” he added, referring to the Harris campaign. “They may or may not agree. I don’t know. She hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent. She can’t do an interview, but I look forward to the debates because we have to set the record straight.”

Harris has criticized Trump in recent weeks after the former president suggested he wanted to wait for Harris to be officially nominated before completely agreeing to debate her. Last week, Trump said he would “probably” debate Harris but added, “I can also make a case for not doing it.”

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Trump blasted Harris’ time as vice president overseeing the border crisis and her early exit from the 2020 Democratic primary. He also said that “the presidency was taken away” from Joe Biden, arguing, “He had the right to run and they took it away.”

“What they’ve done is pretty incredible,” he continued. “You would’ve thought they would’ve gone out to a vote, they would’ve had a primary system, they would’ve done something, but to just take it away from him like he was a child. … He had 14 million votes. [Harris] had no votes.”

After Biden dropped out on July 21 and passed the mantle to Harris, the vice president has yet to sit down for a major interview or hold a press conference. Instead, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are on a multi-stop campaign tour to all seven battleground states.

Chicago Permits Anti-Israel March During DNC, Rejects Pro-Israel Rally

The city of Chicago, former President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown, has given permission for anti-Israel protesters to demonstrate near the Democratic National Convention but has stonewalled a pro-Israel group that requested to hold a solidarity march near the venue.

“The Israeli American Council, a nonprofit organization representing Israeli-Americans that seeks to strengthen ties between the U.S. and Israel, filed two applications with Chicago’s Department of Transportation at the beginning of July, according to Aya Schechter, the group’s chief programming officer,” Jewish Insider reported. “But with just under two weeks remaining until the convention, the IAC has yet to receive an answer from the city, despite following up via phone and email.”

Yet last month, Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration offered a coalition of anti-Israel demonstrators a route near the United Center, where the convention will be held, for their “March on the DNC.”

“It’s a win. But it’s not the win,” coalition spokesperson Hatem Abudayyeh told the Chicago Tribune in July. “Organizing works. You put a little pressure on the powers that be and you can move them.”

In June, the Israeli American Council submitted an application for a demonstration within “sight and sound” of the United Center. That application was rejected; the city wrote back that the rally “would be a direct interference with a previously planned permitted activity or public assembly and would create public safety issues.”

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The city said it would permit a stationary rally during the convention’s last night, but it would have to take place at a park far from the venue. “It seems like we don’t have equitable access to whatever the other group was approved for,” Schechter told Jewish Insider. “We didn’t get any offer to do a march, not even in an alternative location.”

Meanwhile, the anti-Israel groups were still not satisfied with what they received; they asked U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood to let them march even closer to the convention.

Abudayyeh has reportedly openly supported the terrorist group Hamas for years. According to Canary Mission, he stated in a July 22, 2006 interview, “The U.S. and Israel will continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations as ‘terrorists,’ but the real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and Israel … the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance must be supported.”

Canary Mission also noted that in a March 20, 2017 interview, “Abudayyeh praised Hamas for taking ‘the most leading role in the military resistance against Israel’ and called Palestinian terror groups ‘resistance forces.’”