Donald Trump has warned donors to Kamala Harris’ campaign that they will not escape punishment if they play a role in “stealing” the 2024 election.
The Republican nominee vowed he would not allow a repeat of the “rampant cheating and deception” that he says cost him the White House in 2020, and threatened unprecedented legal action against anyone who tries it.
Posting on X and his own Truth Social channel under the headline “cease and desist,” he said “lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials” would all find themselves in the crosshairs.
The attack on donors came as Trump’s Democratic rival reported raising a whopping $230 million more than Trump in campaign contributions during the month of August.
“Those who engage in unscrupulous conduct will be sought, captured, and prosecuted at levels, sadly, never before seen in our Country,” Trump wrote.
Donald Trump demanded a change to the 25th Amendment to allow impeachment trials of vice presidents while campaigning in Wisconsin on Saturday.
Kamala Harris met with voters during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
Three days before facing Harris in their first presidential debate, Trump repeated his accusation that she covered up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and promised a constitutional amendment to prevent it from happening again.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, he said he supports “amending” the 25th Amendment to prosecute any US vice president who “lies or participates in a conspiracy to cover up the unfitness of the President of the United States.”
“If they do that, covering up for the president of the United States, it is grounds for immediate impeachment and removal from office, because that is what they did,” he told supporters.
Harris has denied misleading voters about the president’s condition and insisted last month that she was right to say the 81-year-old was fit to serve a second term.
“He has the intelligence, the commitment, the judgment and the disposition that I think the American people deserve in their president,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash in his only interview since securing the Democratic nomination.
The 25th Amendment deals primarily with the circumstances under which a sitting president may be removed from office between elections and has little say about the removal of a vice president.
But constitutional amendments require the support of legislatures in 38 of the country’s 50 states, while Republicans control only 28.
A vice president can remove his boss with the support of half the Cabinet, and Harris resisted pressure from top Republicans to take the knife after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump in late June.
Bickering continues over the precise rules for Tuesday’s crucial 90-minute debate on ABC, which will be hosted by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live lead anchor Linsey Davis.
Biden’s team insisted that the candidate The microphones were muted when they were not speaking during their debate with Trump.
Harris’s team reportedly unsuccessfully called for that rule to be repealed ahead of her first debate. hoping to use one of Trump’s signature outbursts to his advantage during the showdown.
Each pair will have two minutes for their responses, two minutes for rebuttals, and one minute for follow-ups.
There will be no studio audience and each candidate will be allowed two minutes for a closing statement.
And he warned donors to his rival’s campaign that they would not escape punishment if they played a role in a “theft” of the 2024 election.
About 7,000 Trump supporters turned out for his rally in Mosinee, in the battleground state of Wisconsin, on Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump insisted that his 5-foot-4 opponent would not be allowed to stand on a box behind his lectern at the Philadelphia event in an attempt to match his own 6-foot-4 frame.
“No one will be allowed on boxes or artificial elevators during my upcoming debate with Comrade Kamala Harris,” he wrote on Truth Social.
‘We had previously discussed this with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg when he was in a debate and was not allowed to ‘carry it.’
“It would be a form of cheating, and the Democrats cheat enough already. ‘You are who you are,’ it was determined!
But the Republican nominee was still reflecting on his former rival as he spoke at the event in Wisconsin on Saturday, telling his audience it was a “miracle” that Biden secured the Democrats’ nomination in 2020.
“We are governed by stupid people. Stupid, stupid people,” he said. “And we realized that in the debate with Joe. How did that work out?
‘You know, think about it. If I hadn’t gone to that debate, I’d still be campaigning.
“We’ll find out again on Tuesday night. Will anyone be watching us?”
“If I destroy her in the debate, they’ll say Trump suffered a humiliating debate tonight.”