Vice President Kamala Harris once said in 2021 that former President Donald Trump represents “a bubbling-up of a contagion that had been in the American system for a long time,” according to a screenshot of the book “This Will Not Pass” by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
The vice president had a conversation with then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2021 in which she asked Harris how Europe could “be confident that Trump was an aberration,” according to a screenshot of the book shared by Executive Vice President of Public Affairs of Targeted Victory Alberto Martinez. Harris responded, according to the book, by explaining what a “contagion” is and equating it to the former president. (RELATED: ‘I’m Nervous’: Sense Of Unease Persists Among Harris Rally Crowd)
“Harris’s answer was measured and vivid. Gesturing to her own arms, the vice president said sometimes people have an illness just beneath the skin. They can keep it under control with the right medicine, but sometimes it breaks out and appears on the surface,” the screenshot of the book reads.
“Trump, she said, represented a bubbling-up of a contagion that had been in the American system for a long time. And Harris acknowledged that the underlying illness was likely not gone just because Trump had lost the election,” it continues.
In 2021 Kamala told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Donald Trump and his supporters were “an illness just beneath the skin” and a “bubbling up of a contagion.” Reporters now pretending that Biden and Harris would never suggest that half the country is garbage is risible. pic.twitter.com/i2HTDs0wlB
— Alberto E. Martinez (@albertemartinez) October 30, 2024
In the final weeks of the campaign, the Harris campaign has resorted to calling Trump a fascist and comparing the former president’s event Sunday at Madison Square Garden to that of a 1939 Nazi rally. The vice president held her closing argument at the Ellipse, where Trump addressed his supporters before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Riot. Harris, while calling for unity, said the former president is “obsessed with revenge” and is a “petty tyrant” that would use the military on his enemies.
The vice president also previously held an unexpected press conference to respond to former White House chief of staff John Kelly’s claims that Trump would rule like a fascist. Both the New York Times and The Atlantic published stories Oct. 22 detailing interviews with Kelly, who claimed that his former boss said Hitler “did some good things,” wanted generals like the Nazi dictator had and would rule like a fascist. The Trump campaign denied both stories and former officials and other subjects of The Atlantic piece went on the record to deny other elements of the article.
“All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is,” Harris said at the press conference. “This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best. From the people who worked with him side by side, in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.”
The vice president has moved to distance herself from remarks President Joe Biden made during her closing arguments, in which he called Trump supporters “garbage.”
“Listen, I think that first of all, he clarified his comments. Let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” the vice president began.
“You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career. I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people whether they support me or not and as president of the United States I will be a president for all Americans whether you vote for me or not. I have that responsibility and that’s the kind of work I’ve done my entire career and I take it very seriously,” she continued.
The Vice President’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.
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