Harris calls Trump a ‘tyrant,’ lambasts ‘feckless’ CEOs for capitulation
Former Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with MSNBC s Rachel Maddow Monday for her first interview since her loss to Donald Trump in the presidential vote Harris didn t hold back calling her Republican opponent a tyrant and lambasted American CEOs for what she deemed capitulation to Trump I worked closely with the private sector over multiple years and I invariably supposed that if push came to shove those titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy for the importance of sustaining democratic institutions Harris stated And one by one by one they have been silent They have been you know yes I use the word feckless KAMALA HARRIS REVEALS WHAT BIDEN NOTIFIED HER JUST BEFORE CRUCIAL DEBATE WITH TRUMP THAT LEFT HER 'ANGRY'Harris ridiculed the idea that the billionaire class would lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons if they spoke out against Trump She argued that capitalism thrives better under democracy than under authoritarian regimes 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 under Donald Trump And these titans of industry are not speaking up she revealed KAMALA HARRIS SCOLDS 'PILING ON' AGAINST JOE BIDEN WHEN SOLICITED ABOUT SEPARATING HERSELF DURING CAMPAIGNHarris announced she understood their hesitancy to speak out against the president noting that his administration has gone after his critics But at a few point they ve got to stand up for the sake of the people who rely on all of these institutions to have integrity and to at various point be the guardrails against a tyrant who is using the federal regime to execute his whim and fancy because of a fragile ego Harris announced Monday night s interview on MSNBC came a day before the release of her new book Days which will recount her tumultuous experience replacing former President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee after he dropped out of the race
