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Bret Bair (Fox) interviewed VP Harris last week. It was a hot mess, a disaster for Harris. Emptiness.
Rather than owning anything, she admired every problem he raised, overtalked him when he raised responsibility for ten million illegals in the country, thousands of felons shipped to all 50 states, ending the Trump agreement to keep asylum seekers in Mexico, blocking gangs and drug violence.
She blamed Trump. Trump? Yes, he did not go along with a bill legalizing half those actions offered by Biden-Harris, which six Senate Democrats voted against – as it allowed 1.8 million illegals in. She had no answer.
She pretended all is well, there was no need to look at the border, Trump was as bad and offered pathetic defenses for the indefensible. She pointed to the same when asked how she could have let the murderers in who have killed so many young women – and in growing numbers.
She ignored the question and said it was tragic. Indeed, Madame Vice President, tragic, your policies. Even former President Clinton called it failed vetting. Harris was in her regular brain fog, slow, speaking through her nose, struggling to remember lines.
Bair turned to experts. He let the mother of a child brutally killed by an illegal, released with no vetting, tell Harris how her policies killed her daughter. Fox gave Harris a chance to apologize. Harris refused, just called it tragic.
Next, Bair pressed on when the crisis started. She dodged again, said she spoke to those on the border – in her one visit in 4 years, was sorry for those killed. She said the border is always in crisis.
She blamed the Democrat Congress, not her policies, for letting tens of thousands of traffickers, murderers, and rapists in, saying we just need more asylum judges. The lack of response was stunning.
Harris nearly cried when confronted with border patrol union endorsement of Trump, but would not admit she is wrong, that she has done more for drug trafficking illegals than for Americans in fear. Saying over and over “I get it” – she plainly does not get it, and viewers saw that in living color.
When confronted with her own statements about wanting illegals to get free driver’s licenses, free tuition at colleges, and free health care, she said “That was five years ago.” And so?
The non-answer was as embarrassing as any words out of a candidate for president in my lifetime. She takes no responsibility for anything. Asked how she chose a vice presidential candidate who signed those things into law in Minnesota, she said we will “enforce federal law.” That’s it?
She offered the added dodge that she once prosecuted bad guys, so – one assumes – her now letting felons into the US is something she once opposed? Even here, her record is weak. She spent more time prosecuting gun makers and dropping capital cases than pursuing illegals.
Confronted with advocacy of taxpayers funding gender “reassignment” operations for illegal aliens and prisoners, she pivoted, said that’s the law, and blamed Trump. Bair pointed out, no such policies were implemented by Trump. Harris did not retract the idea, and said Trump “has no plan.”
No plan? Really? Trump has volumes of plans and a record. Harris has minimal plans, and what she has either mimics Trump (e.g. no tip taxes) or smacks of the former Soviet Union’s top-down mandates, price and wage controls, ending fossil fuels, mandating federal control, no straws.
Audacity is one word, low intelligence, low integrity, hiding is a better way to say it. Harris hit with crazy transgender policies and deflected over to … affordable housing. Of course, but another misfire, as her Inflation Acceleration Act, misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, made housing unaffordable.
Jumping from hot burner to burner, Harris tried to talk economics, which was more embarrassing. The interviewer asked – why do more trust Trump? She stammered, no answer. She jumped again, saying she wanted to “turn the page,” which begs the question, from what?
Hit by the interviewer with quotes – on film – of saying she would change nothing, she suddenly pulled the double reverse, disowned her role in Biden-Harris policies, and said “My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.” So, she just threw Biden under the bus.
She said 79 percent believe the country is on the wrong track, she took no responsibility. Unable to explain, she blamed Trump, said the interviewer was in agreement, “know what I mean.” He shot back, “No, what do you mean?” She then babbled about divisions.
Sad, embarrassing, pathetic, but there it is – who she is, sure she is being “clear” but actually clear as mud, offering meaningless diversions, emotion, and hatred for Trump. The only things clear are her willingness to lie, lack of principle, lack of focus, low integrity, and … emptiness. This interview did not go well for Harris.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
