Kamala Harris Speaks Out — Scorches ‘Tyrant’ Trump in First TV Interview Since January: We’re Dealing With a ‘Communist’ Dictator
Former Vice President Kamala Harris — speaking out in her first TV news interview since leaving office in January — absolutely laced into President Donald Trump, who she labeled a “tyrant.”
In a 40-minute sitdown with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC Monday, Harris was unsparing in her assessment of Trump, and the first nine months of his second term. She also called out the “titans of industry” she believed would serve as a guardrail for Democracy.
“They have been silent,” Harris said. “They have been… yes, I use the word feckless. It’s not like they’re gonna lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”
From there, Harris denounced the president in the strongest terms.
“Right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” Harris said. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up.”
The defeated 2024 presidential candidate said she understands the capitulation to Trump among business titans. But added, “at some point, they’ve gotta stand up for the sake of the people who rely on all of these institutions. To have integrity and to, at some point, be the guardrails against a tyrant who is using the federal government to execute his whim and fancy because of a fragile ego.”
Harris pointed to the announced return of Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves on Tuesday night as an example of an organized resistance proving successful.
“Talk about the power being with the people — and the people making that clear with their checkbooks — as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel,” Harris said. “We saw the power of the people over the last few days, and it spoke volumes, and it moved a decision in the right direction. I think that part of where we are now — in terms of thinking about what the fight is — it requires us, yes, to understand that we’ve got this administration and this president in front of us abusing the power that the people vested him with, but we also need to understand that this is bigger than Donald Trump.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
