President Donald Trump’s administration fired back at former Vice President Kamala Harris after she called the president a “tyrant” in a new MSNBC interview.
Trump and his MAGA allies have claimed, without evidence, that only the rhetoric from the “radical left” is responsible for political violence. The White House pushed this narrative again on Monday after Harris criticized Trump in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about her new book, “107 Days.”
The Rapid Response social media team for the White House accused Harris of inciting “violence” when she called Trump a “tyrant” on Monday.
“SICK: Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris is inciting violence on MSDNC, calling the duly elected President of the United States—who escaped two assassination attempts—a ‘tyrant,’” the White House account posted on X, referring to MSNBC as “MSDNC”.
Harris did not make any calls for violence during her interview.
Maddow asked Harris about a statement from her book where she wrote that she did not predict “the capitulation” of billionaires, media companies, schools, and law firms bending the knee to Trump
Harris slammed the “feckless” billionaires for being “silent.”
“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump,” she said.
“And these titans of industry are not speaking up. And perhaps it is because his threats and the way he has used the weight of the federal government to take out vengeance on his critics is something that they fear, and I get that,” she added.
“But, at some point, they have got to 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,” she continued.
Harris’s book, “107 Days,” was released on Tuesday. It details her short-lived campaign for the White House after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July 2024.
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