Former President Donald Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday evening as a “lunatic” and “silly” and questioned whether or not she had an issue with alcohol or medicine — the second time over the course of the day that he made false private assaults on his Democratic opponent.

At an almost two-hour rally Tuesday evening in Greensboro, North Carolina, Trump launched right into a diatribe about Harris’ Oct. 7 look on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that ended together with his falsely suggesting she had substance abuse points.

“She was so unhealthy, she gave a solution. This by no means occurred to me,” Trump stated. “She gave a solution that was so unhealthy that they modified it. They took it out, threw it out. They didn’t, like, edit a bit of bit, take a phrase out.”

“She didn’t know the place the hell she was going,” Trump continued. “Did she drink? Is she on medicine? I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.”

Trump has repeatedly accused the community of deceptively enhancing its interview to make Harris sound higher. “60 Minutes” denied Trump’s declare in an announcement Sunday:

“60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used an extended part of her reply than that on 60 Minutes. Identical query. Identical reply. However a special portion of the response. After we edit any interview, whether or not a politician, an athlete, or film star, we try to be clear, correct and on level. The portion of her reply on 60 Minutes was extra succinct, which permits time for different topics in a large ranging 21-minute-long phase.”

“60 Minutes” famous that Trump canceled his interview with this system and stated, “Our long-standing invitation to former President Trump stays open.”

The false notion of Harris’ being a drunk has grown in recognition in conservative circles on-line.

Responding to questions on Trump’s newest assault, a spokesperson for the Harris marketing campaign pointed to her interview earlier Tuesday with NBC Information’ Hallie Jackson framing the selection the election supplied voters.

“The selection earlier than the American individuals is the selection to decide on to show the web page on the division and the hate and to carry our nation collectively understanding the overwhelming majority of us have a lot extra in widespread than what separates us,” Harris stated within the interview.

Trump’s private assault in opposition to Harris, the second he had lobbed at her on Tuesday alone, got here as he has ramped up such assaults in current days and weeks.

Earlier within the day, Trump ripped Harris as “the worst” and “lazy as hell” at a marketing campaign occasion in Miami. He additionally referred to as her “gradual” and a “low-IQ particular person.”

On the Greensboro occasion on Tuesday evening, Trump repeated the “low-IQ” line, slammed her as a “radical left lunatic” and stated, “She’s a silly particular person.” He additionally referred to as her the “worst vice chairman within the historical past of our nation.”

Trump has for months invoked false and dangerous stereotypes about ladies in attacking Harris, the primary feminine vice chairman in U.S. historical past. He particularly has zeroed in on portraying her as dumb or loopy.

However he has jacked up the frequency and tone of his insults in opposition to her in current weeks.

At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Trump referred to as Harris a “s— vice chairman.”

“We will’t stand you,” he stated.

At a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this month, he attacked Harris as “a horrible particular person,” “a liar,” a “radical left Marxist” and “not a sensible particular person.”

He stated individuals have advised him to be nicer in his speeches, however “I don’t need to be good.”