Donald Trump Slams Kamala Harris’ Interrogation Style—’Viciousness’

Donald Trump has discussed vice president Kamala Harris’ aggressive style of questioning, ahead of their debate scheduled for September 10.
In a Saturday interview with Fox News’s Mark Levin, Trump said Harris “fought people like I’ve never seen,” during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh in 2018.
“And for her whole life, she fought people like I’ve never seen anything like it…look at the way she fought Justice Kavanaugh. The viciousness and the violence,” he said. “She’s a Marxist,” Trump said.
Newsweek contacted representatives of Harris via email for comment on Sunday.
Harris, who was a prosecutor before she entered national politics, asked Kavanaugh, who Trump nominated as a Supreme Court justice, a series of tough questions before he was confirmed by congress.
At one point in the 2018 hearing, she grilled Kavanaugh, a conservative judge who would later vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, a pointed question about abortion.
“Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?” Harris asked.
“I’m not thinking of any right now,” Kavanaugh replied.
Trump told Levin that, even though he likes debating, he was reluctant to agree to the September 10 debate due to it being hosted by ABC, a network he says is biased against him.
“ABC is probably the worst in terms of fairness. George Flopadopoulos… the people they have, they’re just terrible,” he said.
“George Flopadopoulos” is one of Trump’s nickname for ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, he also regularly calls him “George Slopadopoulos.”
The debate will be moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Trump is currently suing ABC and Stephanopoulos on accusations of defamation. He said the anchor defamed him on air by saying he raped E. Jean Carroll.
In May 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and battery against Carroll, but not for rape.
The question of whether Stephanopoulos defamed Trump by calling him a rapist relates to a later decision by a New York judge who dismissed a counterclaim by Trump against Carroll, writing, “Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”
The defamation case against the host and the network is set to go to trial.
But Trump insisted that accepting a debate was important, even on an allegedly unfavorable network.
“I had to make a decision,” Trump said. “I wanted to, and I like to debate. I mean, I guess I’ve won a lot of debates because otherwise I wouldn’t have been president,” he said.
During the interview, Trump also criticized Harris on several of her policy positions, saying she would ban fracking, something she said she backed in 2020, but has now stated that she no longer supports. He also criticized her for the record levels of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
“And when you watch her, like at the convention, oh, everything’s just peachy,” he said. “But migrant crime is turning out to be a disaster. Many, many people are killed and raped and mugged and everything else. These are tough people, but they let them out of jails.”
Harris has said that, if elected, she would bring back the bipartisan border deal that Republican lawmakers backed out of earlier this year, following urging by Trump.
As well as criticizing the vice president on specific policies, Trump also called her “comrade Kamala.”
“I call her comrade Kamala because she is radical left,” he said. “She’s a radical left Marxist. And that’s what she is. And she’ll destroy our country,”
Since entering politics in 2015, Trump has frequently used nicknames, exaggerations, and insults when talking about his political opponents and members of the media.