Former President Trump criticized Vice President Harris Friday after her current interview with CNN, calling her “defective.”
“I think she would’ve been better off if she just did interviews, even if they weren’t great it woulda been better … because now everyone’s watching and now we see, she’s defective,” Trump stated Friday on the annual gathering of Mothers for Liberty, a conservative nonprofit. “She’s a defective person.”
“And we don’t need another defective person as president of the United States,” Trump stated, doubtless referring to President Biden, who dropped out of the race final month and endorsed Harris. “We just had that.”
He additionally stated Biden was “sharp as a tack,” throughout the presidential debate in June and complained that it was “unfair” he needed to spend hundreds of thousands going after the unsuitable individual throughout the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee (RNC) final month. Biden stepped except for the race in late July, days after the RNC concluded.
His newest assaults come after Harris sat for her first main interview as her celebration’s presidential nominee Thursday, alongside her working mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed the pair following rising stress on Harris to take a seat for an interview.
Trump has unleashed private assaults on the vp as her political star has risen since she rose to the highest of the Democratic ticket in current weeks. The vp within the interview additionally dismissed her GOP rival’s questioning of her racial id.
“Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please,” Harris responded.
“That’s it?” Bash requested.
“That’s it,” Harris answered.
Throughout a marketing campaign cease earlier Friday, Trump briefly commented on the interview.
“Did you see her on television last night? This is gonna be the president of our country? I don’t think so,” he stated in Pennsylvania.
The previous president additionally took a swing at Bash, calling her “nasty.”
“You know, I know Dana. She’s always, you know, always nasty. She was so nice to the Democrats,” he stated, including, “It was a very weak interview from the standpoint of CNN. I think CNN should be ashamed of themselves.”
Whereas the outlet aired the interview in its entirety, Trump and his allies criticized CNN for pre-taping the interview as a substitute of airing it stay as a technique to cowl up potential Harris slipups. There have been none recorded.
The Hill has reached out to the Harris marketing campaign, CNN and the White Home for remark.
