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Trump insults Harris’ intelligence, discusses election outcome, release of medical records
Former president and GOP nominee Donald Trump said in an exclusive TV interview that he would release his medical records, as he faces off against Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the White House. Trump, 78, also defended his repeated insults of Harris’ intelligence and said he would accept the election outcome if he believes the election is “free and fair.”
He spoke with CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns in Pennsylvania Monday, as Democrats kick off the Democratic convention in Chicago.
“You will release your medical records to the public?” Huey-Burns asked the former president.
“Oh sure, I would do that very gladly, sure,” Trump responded.
Barely a month after an attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump insisted that no, he isn’t suffering from any post-traumatic stress disorder and hasn’t experienced any other lasting effects after a gunman grazed his ear with a bullet.
The Republican nominee said he just had a medical exam and received a “perfect score,” and two cognitive tests, which he said he “aced.”
“I got everything right,” Trump said. “And one of the doctors said, ‘I’ve never seen that before, where you get everything right.’ No, I have no problem. I’d go a step further, I think anybody that runs for president, whether they’re 75 or 65 or 45, I think should take a cognitive test.”
In recent rallies, Trump has been complaining about the replacement of President Biden at the top of the ticket, characterizing Harris’ nomination as a “coup.” He’s also been assailing her intelligence, repeatedly calling her “stupid,” despite her long legal career.
Huey-Burns asked Trump if that’s the right message to win over moderate voters, the kind of voters Trump will need in key battleground states.
“No, I don’t think so,” Trump said. “I think that the message is what a bad job they’ve done. I mean, if you look at this economy, if you look at inflation, and you know, I love this country. I have to do what it takes to win. I have to get this country going, because we’re going to lose our country.”
But asked for specifics, Trump couldn’t point to evidence or examples of deficits in Harris’ intellect.
“Our country needs a very smart person, and I don’t think she’s a very smart person,” Trump replied. “So, I’m not looking to — I don’t consider that an insult — that’s just a fact.”
“What evidence do you have for that?” Huey-Burns asked.
“I looked at the things that she’s said, I looked at the way she deals, I looked at her record — her crazy record — I look at her policies. I just don’t happen to think so,” Trump responded. “Now, I could say she is and I know that would be very nice. And the other thing, we have to win this election.”
The Republican nominee also said he would accept the results of a fair and free election, although he didn’t in the wake of his loss to Mr. Biden in November 2020. Trump has continued to undermine the credibility and integrity of that election, despite his own top security officials insisting it was the most secure election in history.
“I think if I lose, this country will go into a tailspin, the likes of which it’s never seen before — the likes of 1929 — but if I do, and it’s free and fair, absolutely, I will accept the results,” Trump told Huey-Burns.
Trump said he would accept the results of a free election because he’s an “honorable person.”
“If I see that we had a fair and free election, which I hope to be able to say, but if I see that, I will be — you will never see anybody more honorable than me,” Trump said. “I’m an honorable person.”
In May, Trump was convicted of felonies in New York stemming from a hush money payment made to an adult film star just before the 2016 presidential election. He faces other criminal charges over his alleged participation in a scheme to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. He has pleaded not guilty.
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A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting deaths of his parents and three of his siblings at a home in Fall City, Washington, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.
The teen, whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile, was charged with five counts of aggravated murder in the slayings of his parents, Mark and Sarah Humiston, two brothers, ages 9 and 13, and his 7-year-old sister, per King County court records.
He was also charged with one count of attempted murder for shooting and wounding his 11-year-old sister, the documents read.
That girl was in “satisfactory condition” at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg told the Associated Press Tuesday.
Autopsies performed by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that all five victims died of gunshot wounds. The handgun used in the shooting was believed to belong to the victim’s father, the court records state.
According to the charging documents, just before 5 a.m. Monday, the suspect called 911 with a false story in which he claimed that his 13-year-old brother “just shot my whole family and committed suicide too” at the family’s home in Fall City, which is a community located near Seattle.
However, at about the same time as that call, 911 dispatchers received a second call from a neighbor who lives about a quarter-mile away. That neighbor said the suspect’s 11-year-old sister had ran to his house and was bleeding from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, the documents said.
The girl said her entire family had been fatally shot and identified her 15-year-old brother as the shooter. The girl told dispatchers she was also shot by her brother and “then described holding her breath and playing dead,” the documents read. The girl later told detectives that she had escaped through a bedroom window.
Deputies responded to the Humiston home, where they found the suspect in the driveway and took him into custody, court records show. The five victims were found dead inside the home.
In a hospital interview with detectives later that day, the suspect’s surviving sister said that she identified the firearm used in the shooting as “her father’s silver Glock handgun,” court documents state.
She said that her father kept the pistol in a small lockbox that “he would sometimes put by the front door so he could bring it to work,” the documents read. She told detectives that the suspect was “the only one who knew the combination to the Glock lockbox.”
Investigators determined that the suspect “systematically murdered” his parents and siblings and “then staged the scene prior to the arrival of first responders to make it appear” that the murders had been committed by his 11-year-old brother, documents read.
The court documents did not speculate on a motive.
The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a news release Thursday that the suspect is in custody at the Clark Child and Family Justice Center, which is a juvenile facility.
The teen is currently being charged as a juvenile, and prosecutors said a judge will determine whether his case “will be moved to adult court.”
In a statement Tuesday, public defenders representing the suspect said that “our client is a 15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal history.”
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