Former President Donald Trump wasted little time in trash-talking Vice President Kamala Harris’ first major sit-down television interview since she ascended to the Democratic nomination. The 45th president roasted Harris in a social media post on Thursday, chiding that she “rambled incoherently” when pressed by CNN anchor Dana Bash about her past flip-flops on key policy matters.
Her answer rambled incoherently, and declared her ‘values haven’t changed.’ On that I agree, her values haven’t changed,” Trump sniped on Truth Social before dusting off a list of what he alleges she’d pursue as president. America will become a WASTELAND.
A preview of Harris getting asked about her past flip-flopped was released by CNN in advance of the full interview airing on the network. This was something that several top allies of Trump wanted Harris to be grilled on. She previously backed policies such as the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, a ban on fracking, expanding the Supreme Court, and more.
But in the time since, she has distanced herself from many of those stances. I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris said in the preview clip. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed and — I’ve worked on it — that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.
It took Harris, 59, some 40 days to sit down for a major interview after President Biden’s seismic decision to bow out of the 2024 race on July 21. Trump, 78, and his campaign quickly seized upon the media drought and began upping the former president’s tempo availability to the press. Trump began holding press conferences and doing brief interviews with the media on his various campaign stops.
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance also upped his media appearances as well in an apparent effort to throw shade at Harris and accuse her of hiding from accountability. Allies of Trump also knocked Harris for choosing to do her first major television interview since becoming the nominee with Democratic vice presidential contender Tim Walz.
During a campaign town hall event in La Crosse, Wisc., Trump went on a tirade about Harris’ big interview and ridiculed her over the aesthetics. She was sitting behind a desk doing this interview. And I said, ‘Dana Bash, you could make yourself big tonight – all you have to do is be fair,’” Trump chided.
She was sitting behind that desk – this massive desk – and she didn’t look like a leader to me. I’ll be honest, I don’t see her negotiating with President Xi of China. I don’t see her with Kim Jong Un like we did with Kim Jong Un. So we’re going to have to see what happens,” he further ribbed.
Trump had heaped praise on Bash and fellow CNN anchor Jake Tapper who moderated his June debate with Biden, which sparked a Democratic mutiny against the incumbent. Harris and Trump are slated to square off in Philadelphia for the ABC News debate on Sept. 10.
