Donald Trump in an interview on Sunday slammed Vice-President Kamala Harris as “vicious” and said she was ‘horrible’ to former Vice-President Mike Pence during their debate in 2020.
In a Fox News interview for Life, Liberty and Levin, Trump highlighted a viral moment when Harris firmly told Pence, “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking. I’m speaking,” after he repeatedly interrupted her.
“Now they have Kamala, who they say has many deficiencies, but she’s a nasty person. The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible. The way she treats people is horrible,” Trump told host Mark Levin.
Trump and Pence once had a very close relationship but things soured between the two men over Pence’s refusal to overturn the results of the election in Congress despite pressure from Trump and his allies.
Trump incited a mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 several of whom could be heard chanting “hang Mike Pence.”
Despite the attacks on Pence’s life, Trump has doubled down on his criticisms of his former VP, insisting that he had the right to overturn election results. Trump also called Pence “delusional,” “coward,” and “not a very good person.”
Pence challenged Trump for the nomination for president this year but his campaign failed to gain any traction in the trumpified Republican Party.
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence told Fox News in March after dropping out of the GOP primary. The former VP cited “profound differences” between himself and Trump including “difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January 6th.”
In Sunday’s interview Trump also took aim at Harris’ questioning of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during the confirmation hearings.
“Oh, she was vicious. Oh, she was the most vicious. She was going after them [Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch]” Trump said, adding, “The way she treated Justice Kavanaugh during that hearing in the history of Congress, nobody’s been treated that way.”
