On book tour in Detroit, Kamala Harris blasts Trump's 'incompetence' and 'cowardice'

(Michigan Advance) Former Vice President Kamala Harris says President Donald Trump’s directive that U.S. agencies release government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life is meant to distract from the “corruption, cowardice, and incompetence coming out of this administration.”

Harris made the comment Friday during a Detroit stop on her book tour promoting “107 Days,” her book detailing her losing 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump ordered government agencies to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” documents “related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects, and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters” after former President Barack Obama said during a podcast appearance that aliens are real.

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Harris said the Trump administration relies on overwhelming people with distractions as a strategy.

“It feels like chaos, because what we are witnessing and experiencing is a high velocity event,” Harris said. “It is the swift implementation of a plan that has been decades in the making.”

The former vice president said Trump’s agenda is “purely grounded in corruption and grift.” .................(more)

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