Trump Goes After Barack Obama And Kamala Harris On Twitter During The 2020 Democratic National Convention

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President Trump launched his Twitter attacks during the latter half of the Democratic National Convention's third day
Two attacks targeted former President Barack Obama over alleged spying of Trump's 2016 campaign and tensions between Obama and Joe Biden
His other attack played on past criticisms by Kamala Harris against Biden during the Democratic primary

There was another narrative playing out as Sen. Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate HIllary Clinton spoke Wednesday night at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

President Donald Trump launched a Twitter tirade – IN ALL CAPS – mostly against Obama and Harris, who accepted the vice president nomination..

The first attacked referred the ongoing narrative Trump has promoted since his election that the Obama administration was spying on his campaign in 2016. Trump and conservative media outlets tried to undermine the validity of the Russian interference investigations, something that was proven to be true by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Tuesday. The only point committee members could not agree on is whether there was direct collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia intelligence agents.

Trump's second callout of Obama was over the former president’s decision to endorse Biden in April, after Sen. Bernie Sanders had already suspended his campaign. The tweet also referenced reports of tension between Obama and Biden during the primary and criticisms by Obama at the time.

Trump’s attack against Harris included criticisms she leveled against Biden in 2019 during the first stages of the Democratic primary. Harris did not directly call Biden a racist, but criticized him for comments about “getting things done” with U.S. senators who supported segregation during the 1970s.

“If those men had their way, I wouldn't' be in the United States Senate and on this elevator right now,” Harris told Fox News in 2019. She appeared to double-down on this criticism during a June 2019 debate, but prefaced it by saying she did not believe Biden was racist.

“I do not believe you are a racist and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground,” Harris said during the debate.

“But, I also believe — and it’s personal. And I — I was actually very — it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country.”