MONTGOMERY — The United States will likely see some “civil unrest” if former President Donald Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris in November, according to U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise).
Moore, a Trump supporter, said at a Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Washington brief on Wednesday that the former president “had the greatest economy we’ve ever seen in the world for three years” but would still have a “difficult time” if re-elected.
“If Trump wins, it’s going to take us some time. I was there when he was sworn in on January 20, 2017 and the city was burning that day. Cars were on fire. Glass was being broke out and the man had not yet sat in the oval office. It’s going to be a tough time for our country,” Moore said.
Moore told reporters after the event Trump would have “a lot to do in a short period of time.”
“The $35 trillion in debt. The $100,000 a second in interest. You’ve got Iran flexing their muscles pretty heavy in the Middle East. You’ve got China rattling sabers toward Taiwan. You’ve got Russia invading Ukraine. All of this is happening in the next 36 months,” Moore said. “There’s no way anybody, I don’t care how good a leader they are…can turn that that fast. There’s going to be civil unrest. I think there was civil unrest the first time he was sworn in January 2017. I was in DC. I saw. We’re going to have to couple that with the media not always being fair to the man and certainly the left doesn’t like him. And then our adversaries around the globe and the interest and the debt that we’ve already dug with this border. It’s going to take some time to round up 9 or 10 million people to improve our border security. And also just getting our energy back on line.”
Moore also predicted Congress would probably pass a continuing resolution to avoid a partial government shutdown on September 30.
“I think we’ll probably end up with a CR. We’ve gotten some of our *appropriations) bills. Of the 12, we’ve got seven of them off the floor and over to the Senate. But I think we’ll have a continuing resolution, just holds the spending level as it is until we get a new House and Senate and get a new cycle back in and maybe we can start next year fixing these issues,” Moore said.
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