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Posted: 2024-08-23T22:54:36Z | Updated: 2024-08-23T23:31:48Z

WASHINGTON Kamala Harris may have wowed both Democrats and political observers with her speech Thursday accepting her partys nomination for president, but for her opponent, Donald Trump , there were just too many thank yous.

She mentioned thank you about 50 times. Did you see the beginning? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank, thank. Thank you. Thank you, arghghghgah, Thank you, thank you, thank, thank thank. I said what the hell is wrong with her? the coup-attempting criminal former president assessed Friday at his first campaign appearance since the Democratic National Convention wrapped up the previous night.

In fact, Harris repeated thank you a number of times because of a three-minute standing ovation from the audience at the packed United Center arena in Chicago something Trump must have noticed as he watched.

Trumps analysis on that point Friday in Las Vegas expanded on one of the first fact-checking social media posts he wrote as the speech was taking place: Too many Thank yous, too rapidly said, whats going on with her?

Other posts in that thread included: WHERES HUNTER?; SHE HAS LED US INTO FAILING NATION STATUS! and There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III! She will never be respected by the Tyrants of the World!

When Harris hit the section of her speech that laid out Trumps criminal conviction for falsifying business records and a civil jurys finding that he had committed sexual abuse, Trump responded : IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?

Harris 40-minute speech was praised far and wide as well-crafted and forcefully delivered. It closed out a whirlwind monthlong stretch that began with President Joe Biden ending his campaign for reelection followed quickly by his endorsement of Harris, his vice president, for the job.

Harris within days locked down support from enough party delegates to secure the nomination, allowing her party to spend the four days at the convention in Chicago almost unanimously singing her praises while disparaging Trump as a would-be autocrat and a criminal.

Trump, who is notorious both for his lack of interest in policy details as well as his energetic dishonesty, complained that Harris did not provide enough specifics in her address and did not tell the truth.

Last night, the speech, she made 26 different things that were lies. She lied, but thats OK, because a lot of people lie. Theyll do anything to get elected, he said.

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