Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser for President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, said Tuesday she was "mostly disturbed" by Michelle Obama's speech attacking Trump and his presidency, saying that the former first lady "is the last person that I want to be lectured to about the morality and the patriotism of the United States."
“Clearly she has issues with our president and I will note they were all personal,” Pierson on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "The one policy decision that she discussed was the detention facilities, which all happened under her husband so it had nothing to do with President Trump.”
Obama, in addition to declaring Trump is the "wrong president" for the United States, also said that when Americans look to the White House for leadership, they instead get "chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy.”
“Our president has done nothing but deliver and I just wonder where the Obamas were the eight years in office while doing nothing and President Trump has stepped in and really led the way particularly in Black and brown communities,” Pierson said Tuesday.
Pierson also slammed the other speakers appearing on the first night of the Democrats' virtual convention, calling them a "bunch of liars and liberals with the occasional socialist."
“It was kind of disturbing in many ways because this was a time the Democrats could have used to create this positive vision for the future and it was really all doom and gloom," said Pierson. Meanwhile, when the Republican National Convention starts next Monday, there will be a different tone, as Republicans will fill their events with "real people" rather than "Hollywood," said Pierson.
“President Trump has been out there working hard for American families and American jobs, something the Democrats have been unable to do," she said. "Our stage is going to be filled with those voices, the success stories that the president has all over the country, not just with American families, but also workers."
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