Howard Stern said that he was voting for Kamala Harris during an interview with the vice president on his show today, part of her media blitz with less than a month until the presidential election.
The interview, the latest on Harris’ media blitz, had a number of moments where Stern riffed on Trump, including his absence from a 60 Minutes election special on Monday evening.
“It just says so much. He didn’t want to be fact checked,” Stern said. “This is madness. This is insanity. What do you mean, you don’t want to be fact-checked.”
On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley said that the Trump campaign gave shifting reasons for backing out of the interview, including that the former president did not want to be fact checked. Trump’s campaign has said that the interview was never set.
Stern also asked Harris about the new revelations from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, War. According to The Washington Post, Woodward writes that during the early days of Covid, Trump was sending tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin told Trump, “Don’t let anyone know.”
“People in America were struggling to get tests and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use?” Harris said.
“That is just the most recent stark example of who Trump is, that he secretly sent Covid test kits for the personal use of Putin of Russia, an adversary to the United States, when he was talking about Americans should be putting bleach in their blood. Think about what this is.”
She said that Trump “has this desire to be a dictator,” and they are “manipulating him with flattery and favor.”
Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung reacted to the reports of the Woodward book. “None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” he said.
Harris also appeared to be goading Trump at one point, when she made the case that it was the former president who is the weak one in the race.
“Ultimately, I do believe that this is an election that is about strength versus weakness, and weakness as projected by someone who puts himself in front of the American people and does not have the strength to stand in defense of their needs, their dreams, their desires,” she said.
