Trump vows to go after campaign ‘donors’ in threat over election fraud citing 2020 ‘skullduggery’ and calls for constitutional amendment targeted at Kamala

Donald Trump has warned Kamala Harris’ campaign donors that they will not escape his retaliation if they play any part in a “theft” during the 2024 election.

The GOP candidate vowed not to allow a repeat of the “widespread deceit and villainy” that he said cost him the White House in 2020, and threatened unprecedented legal action against those who tried.

In a post on X and his own Truth Social channel under the heading “cease and desist,” he said “lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and corrupt election officials” would all be targeted.

The attack on donors came after Trump’s Democratic rival reported that he had raised as much as $230 million more than Trump in campaign contributions in August.

“Those who engage in unconscionable conduct will be sought out, apprehended and prosecuted on a scale we have sadly never seen before in our country,” Trump wrote.

Kamala Harris met with voters at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday

Three days before he faces Harris in their first presidential debate, Trump reiterated his accusation that she covered up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and promised to amend the Constitution to prevent it from happening again.

At a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, he said he supports “amending” the 25th Amendment to target any U.S. vice president who “lies or participates in a conspiracy to cover up the incompetence of the President of the United States.”

“If you do that while covering up for the president of the United States, that is grounds for immediate impeachment and removal from office, because that’s what they did,” he told supporters.

Harris denies misleading voters about the president’s health, insisting last month that she was right to claim the 81-year-old was fit for a second term.

“He has the intelligence, the dedication, the judgment and the spirit that I think the American people deserve in their president,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash in her only interview since securing the Democratic nomination.

The 25th Amendment is primarily concerned with the circumstances under which a sitting president can be removed from office between elections. It has little to say about the removal of a vice president.

But constitutional amendments require the support of the legislatures of 38 of the country’s 50 states, of which Republicans control only 28.

A vice president can fire his or her boss with the support of half the Cabinet. Harris resisted pressure from leading Republicans to wield the knife after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump in late June.

The precise rules for Tuesday’s pivotal 90-minute debate on ABC, hosted by World News Tonight host David Muir and ABC News Live host Linsey Davis, are still being debated.

Biden’s team insisted that the candidate Microphones were muted when not speaking during his debate with Trump.

Harris’s team unsuccessfully demanded that the rule be repealed before her first debate, reportedly hoping she could use one of Trump’s signature outbursts to her advantage during the confrontation.

The two are each given two minutes to answer, two minutes to refute and one minute to respond.

There will be no studio audience and each candidate will be given two minutes for a closing statement.

And he warned his rival’s campaign donors that they will not escape his retaliation if they play any role in a “theft” of the 2024 election.

About 7,000 Trump supporters gathered on Saturday for his Mosinee rally in the hotly contested state of Wisconsin

Earlier on Saturday, Trump had already indicated that his 1.63-meter opponent would not be allowed to stand on a trestle behind her podium during the event in Philadelphia. She wants to be as tall as he is, 1.90 meters tall.

“During my upcoming debate with Comrade Kamala Harris, I will not be allowed to stand on boxes or artificial lifts,” he wrote on Truth Social.

“We’ve discussed this before with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He was in a debate and wasn’t allowed to ‘ride along.’

“That would be a form of deception, and the Democrats deceive enough as it is. ‘You are who you are,’ it was decided!”

But the Republican nominee was still thinking about his former rival as he spoke at the event in Wisconsin on Saturday, telling the audience it was a “miracle” that Biden had secured the Democratic nomination in 2020.

“We’re run by stupid people. Stupid, stupid people,” he said. “And we found that out in the debate with Joe. How did that turn out?

“You know, think about it. If he hadn’t gone to that debate, he’d still be in it.

‘We’re going to find out again on Tuesday night. Is anyone going to watch?

“If I destroy her in the debate, they will say Trump had a humiliating argument tonight.”