Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg listed off a number of cases the place Donald Trump “broke his promise” on Sunday however named two that the previous president saved to Individuals.
“He saved his promise to destroy the best to decide on on this nation and he saved his promise on tax cuts for the rich,” Buttigieg instructed Fox Information host Shannon Bream.
“And if you wish to know what a second Trump time period can be like, I might begin by taking a look at these uncommon guarantees that he truly managed to maintain.”
He later reminded Bream that Republicans have expressed curiosity in a national abortion ban earlier than she declared that Trump has “disavowed” such a move.
“Yeah, he’s disavowed lots of issues. I don’t imagine him as a result of he lies on a regular basis,” Buttigieg replied.
Buttigieg, who’s reportedly amongst a number of being thought-about as Vice President Kamala Harris’ potential working mate, went to bat for the presumptive Democratic nominee after telling The New York Occasions this weekend that he didn’t think it’d be “appropriate” to say whether or not he’d make a great VP choose.
Buttigieg knocked an op-ed in The Occasions that solid doubt on Harris’ candidacy, telling Bream the concept any individual hasn’t been examined or vetted when she’s been VP for almost 4 years “simply doesn’t make any sense.”
The Transportation secretary then in contrast Harris’ stance on abortion to Trump’s views, pointing to a pledge he made as a 2016 candidate to nominate justices to the Supreme Court docket to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“One of many few guarantees he truly saved, by the way in which. You understand, he didn’t hold his promise of 6% economic growth. He didn’t hold his promise to drain the swamp,” mentioned Buttigieg as he ripped Trump’s file in his first time period.
“Effectively, he did have a pandemic to cope with,” Bream interjected.
“Effectively, however even earlier than the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession, which actually harm locations like the place I come from within the industrial Midwest,” Buttigieg hit again.
Buttigieg added that Trump broke his promise to go an infrastructure bill and his promise to the Jan. 6 mob that he’d be by their aspect in a march to the Capitol.
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