“Now everyone’s watching and now we see she’s defective,” Trump told the Moms for Liberty national summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday. “She’s a defective person, and we don’t need another defective person as president of the United States. We’ve just had that.”

Trump’s appearance at the conservative conference marked an end to a busy week on the campaign trail, intended to counter the vice president’s rise in the polls before their debate next month on ABC in Philadelphia and after her interview this week on CNN.

“She’s a Marxist, by the way, people are finding that out,” Trump said. “Total Marxist. Her father’s a Marxist. He teaches economy, I guess, from a Marxist perspective. He taught her well.”

That was not Trump’s only criticism of Harris or President Joe Biden after the latter was unceremoniously dumped by Democrats last month before November’s election amid speculation regarding his age and mental acuity.

“He didn’t even know the name of the Resolute Desk,” Trump said. “Boy, I tell you, did they do a coup on him!”

“How did he do? He was as sharp as a tack,” he said of Biden during the debate, complaining that it was “unfair” that he and his campaign spent millions during last month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on the wrong candidate.

Trump also mentioned last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, citing repeated references to Harris working at McDonald’s, with the vice president’s team defending the veracity of her employment.

“You remember the story of the bus?” he said of Harris scrutinizing Biden for his opposition to bussing during a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate. “Fake story probably. She also said, ‘I worked at McDonald’s. Turned out she didn’t work at McDonald’s. Anybody see that? After an exhaustive study, they found out she never worked there.”

Addressing the parents rights advocacy organization through a “fireside chat” conversation, Trump was asked what he would do about their concerns related to gender ideology.

“You can do everything. The president has such power. It does. Such power,” he said.

Trump similarly promised to stop considering parents as “domestic terrorists” after Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the FBI and U.S. attorneys’ offices in 2011 to sit down with federal, state, and local law enforcement with respect to harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school board members.

“Well, we’ll change that on the first day. You are not a domestic terrorist. We do have terrorists coming in and they’re coming in by the thousands, but you’re not one,” he said to host Tiffany Justice.

During the wide-ranging discussion, Trump told the crowd he had understood more about guns after his assassination attempt last month in Pennsylvania, that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was “right about a lot of things,” including Hunter Biden‘s laptop, and that he was defiant after allegations he broke federal law this week by taking political photographs near the graves of service members who died during the 2021 Afghanistan terrorist attack in Arlington National Cemetery.

“I didn’t want to take pictures, but I wanted to take them if they wanted to take them,” he said. “Then I get a call that night: ‘Sir, we’re getting a complaint from the White House.’ … These people were killed by Biden as far as I’m concerned.”

One topic Trump did not talk about was abortion after earlier Friday confirming he would vote against a Florida state-initiated constitutional amendment initiative that could enshrine abortion access in the Sunshine State’s declaration of rights.

“So I think six weeks, you need more time. Six weeks, I’ve disagreed with that right from the early primaries. When I heard about it, I disagreed with it,” Trump told Fox News in Pennsylvania. “At the same time, the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation where you can do an abortion in the ninth month. And, you know, some of the states, like Minnesota and other states, have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth, and all of that stuff is unacceptable. So I’ll be voting no for that reason.”

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Trump rankled anti-abortion activists this week and last week after he told CBS that he would not use the Comstock Act to prohibit the postage of abortion pills and then indicated to NBC he would support the Florida constitutional amendment.

“I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” he told the TV network.