When Kamala Harris finally gives her first interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, she will have to explain why she has backtracked on so many policies, why she did nothing to secure the southern border while in office and why she needs a human shield, according to one avid television news watcher, former President Donald J. Trump.
Trump spoke to DailyMail.com on Wednesday in the palatial living room of his Mar-a-Lago headquarters.
He discussed everything from the assassination attempt that nearly cost him his life to the policies he’ll implement on his first day in office. But first, he laid out the questions CNN’s Dana Bash should ask the vice president in their interview.
At the top of his list is: What is she hiding?
“Why isn’t it live? It’s not a live interview,” he said. “It’s an interview that’s recorded, then edited, then released. So that’s not even an interview.
Former President Donald Trump has outlined the questions he wants CNN to ask Vice President Kamala Harris when she gives her first interview since becoming the Democratic nominee
“Then she does it with her vice president there. So she’s not that smart. If they ask her a question she can’t answer, she just looks at him and says, ‘You answer it.’”
Trump continues to press Harris with a steady stream of interviews in which he stresses that she avoids similar confrontations with the media.
Meanwhile, she’s had a huge fundraising haul and a lot of positive media coverage since President Joe Biden announced he was ending his re-election campaign.
But Republicans began protesting on Wednesday as the number of days without a proper on-the-record interview rose to 38.
That will change on Thursday when she sits down with her running mate Tim Walz at CNN’s Bash.
Trump said she had used the time to reinvent herself, moving away from unpopular measures and copying his own, such as repealing the tip tax.
“I find it crazy. She hasn’t spoken to the press for months,” he said.
“She doesn’t talk to anyone. She copies – you’d call it flip-flopping on everything she’s believed in for the last 20 years.
“She’s saying now, well, she’s going to frack and well, she’s going to build walls, but she doesn’t mean it because she’s a Marxist.”
Harris will appear alongside her running mate Tim Walz during a campaign stop at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, on Wednesday
The interview will be conducted by CNN’s Dana Bash and will air on Thursday evening
Harris’ campaign has distanced itself from its previous opposition to hydraulic fracking, a method used to extract oil and gas from deep rock formations that is a major employer in the crucial state of Pennsylvania.
And now she wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a border wall, a Trump project she once called “un-American” and “a stupid use of money.”
“Whether she was a tsar or just guarding the border, she was the boss of the worst border in history. I want to know what happened. Why did she do that?” he asked.
“Then I want to know why she suddenly said, two days ago: No, I want to build a wall. After all, she was against the wall for 20 years. She fought against me on the wall. She was one of the people who fought.”
If that was the policy she wanted, she could close the border right now, he added.
Trump spoke to DailyMail.com in the lavishly decorated living room at Mar-a-Lago
“They had three and a half years to do it. They never did it,” he said.
According to Trump, that was a sign that his opponent was not sincere in her new political positions.
“She doesn’t believe in anything, so from her character’s point of view it’s horrible,” he said.
“I mean, she’s so unfair.”
The CNN interview will be taped Thursday afternoon in Georgia and will air at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.
Bash has interviewed Harris twice since she became vice president.