Lara Trump issues World War III warning over Kamala Harris presidency

Lara Trump has warned that a Kamala Harris presidency will lead to a recession and World War III.

Trump, who is the co-chair of the Republican National Committee and the daughter-in-law of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, issued a series of stark warnings about the global consequences of a Harris presidency on Thursday’s episode of her podcast The Right View.

“This is serious,” Lara Trump said, addressing her listeners. “We are really on the verge of a lot of terrible things happening in our country and in our world.”

“Can you truly tell me that you’re going to be able to look at your kids when we are actually in a recession, whenever we are actually in World War III, when things are dissolving around us and the country that we’ve always known is absolutely in shambles, and you’re going to be able to look at your kids and say, yeah, I voted for this?” she said.

Lara Trump argued that the policies of the Biden-Harris administration have led the U.S. toward a recession and linked Harris to several key decisions, such as the shutdown of the Keystone XL pipeline, which she claimed had caused inflation, increased gasoline prices, and damage to the country’s energy independence.

She suggested that these policies weakened the U.S. and emboldened adversaries such as Iran and Russia in that it “allowed them the money to do the invasions, and to, you know, start the wars that are going on across the world right now.”

She also said Harris had “failed upward her entire career” and became vice president “based on the fact that she was a minority Woman,” which Trump said was “gross.”

“Do me a favor. Don’t ever give me a position based on the fact that I’m a woman either. I earned it or I didn’t. And that’s it,” she said.

Trump has faced some criticism about the validity of her appointment as co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March, due to the fact her father-in-law was at that time the party’s presumptive presidential candidate.

The criticism of Harris stems from Joe Biden‘s 2020 promise that he would pick a woman to be his running mate.

However, after being chosen as Biden’s running mate, Harris was elected to the office of vice president not through diversity hiring practices but because more Americans voted for her and Biden than for Mike Pence and Donald Trump.

Lara Trump detailed Harris’ past performance, including her failed 2019 presidential campaign, which Trump noted ended before the primary season reached California, Harris’ home state.

She also criticized Harris’s tenure as the “border czar,” blaming her for the current state of the U.S.-Mexico border and suggesting that her leadership contributed to what she called an “epic failure” in controlling illegal immigration.

The name “border czar” has been widely used by the media and the Republican Party to describe Harris since March 2021, when Biden assigned her the task of overseeing diplomatic efforts with the governments of Mexico and other Central American countries to deal with the “root cause” of the influx of migrants across the southern border.

Customs and Border Protection data shows that a higher number of unauthorized migrants have crossed into the U.S. each month under the Biden administration than under the previous Trump administration.

Trump concluded by urging listeners, especially parents, to consider the future of the country and vote for her father-in-law in the upcoming election. “We need a proven leader,” she said, “someone who’s done it before … someone who’s going to protect us and give us this country back.”

This week Harris took the polling lead in several battleground states and has tied with Donald Trump in betting markets, where he has been the favorite for three months.

Newsweek has contacted Harris’ campaign for comment via email.