Yahoo Lifestyle Kamala Harris Has A Beer With Stephen Colbert In ‘Late Show’ Appearance; VP Says Donald Trump “Gets Played” By Dictators – Watch Clip
UPDATED: Kamala Harris wrapped up a daylong media blitz with an appearance on Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in which she repeated some of her scathing criticisms of Donald Trump and talked of the “whirlwind” of a presidential campaign.
According to excerpts of the interview from a pool report, Harris’ sit down with Colbert was friendly territory, to the point that they shared a Miller High Life.
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Colbert also praised her debate performance with Trump, and asked what she was thinking in a picture from that evening where she has rested her chin on her hand.
“It’s family TV, right? It starts with a W, there’s a letter between it, then the last letter’s F,” Harris said.
Colbert also asked of some of the revelations from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, War. The Washington Post and other outlets reported today that in the book, Woodward writes that Trump had seven calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left office. Trump’s campaign has attacked Woodward and his book.
Harris said, “I heard about it today. I haven’t read it. But look, I said even at the debate, Donald Trump – he openly admires dictators and authoritarians. He has said he wants to be a dictator on day one if he were elected again as president. He gets played by these guys. He admires so-called strongmen and he gets played because they flatter him or offer him favor.”
Harris also referred to another passage in Woodward’s book, that in the early days of Covid, Trump sent tests to Putin.
“If everything I’ve heard about Bob Woodward’s book is right, Donald Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Putin for his personal use,. I ask everyone here and everyone who is watching, do you remember what those days were like? You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them?”
She added, “Think about what this means on top of him sending love letters to Kim Jong Un. No, think about it. He thinks, ‘Well, that’s his friend.’ What about the American people? They should be your first friend.”
Like Jimmy Kimmel, who had Tim Walz on his show on Monday night, Colbert has taken part in Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign events. He moderated a fundraiser with Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in March, when the president was still running for reelection.
Later in the interview, Colbert asked Harris if Trump lost the 2020 election.
“You know, I’m going to tell you what some of the people in my rallies — quite a few people show up, by the way — you know, when you lost millions of jobs, you lost manufacturing, you lost automotive plants, you lost the election. What does that make you? A loser. This is what somebody at my rallies said. I thought it was funny.”
“It’s accurate. It’s accurate,” Colbert said.
Harris laughed and said, “This is what happens when I drink beer.”
Colbert also spoofed CBS’ 60 Minutes opener, noting that the show invited to appear on the show and she accepted. “In the interest of fairness, we also invited former President Donald Trump to go f— himself.”
Watch a clip of Harris cracking open a beer here.
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