Harris also slammed business leaders and institutions in America who have, in her view, too easily bowed to the president’s demands.
“There are many… that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation.”
The White House was dismissive when asked for a response to Harris’s comments about the president.
“When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should’ve taken the hint – the American people don’t care about her absurd lies,” said spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.
“Or maybe she did take the hint and that’s why she’s continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications.”
Harris has just published her account of her rollercoaster campaign, 107 Days, the time that was left to her to run for the presidency after Biden withdrew from the race following months of speculation about his mental acuity.
In our full interview with the former vice-president, to be broadcast in the UK on Sunday at 09:00 GMT (05:00 EST), I pressed Harris several times on whether she ought to have urged Biden to make way for her sooner.
How much did she really know about his health? And a question that may haunt her – whether she would be president now, not Donald Trump, if Biden had withdrawn earlier?
The answer is plainly, unknowable – the great “if” that could have changed the fate of America.
