Trump, who has been accused of predatory behavior by dozens of women and found guilty of sexual abuse in a civil court case, reposted an old photo of Democratic nominee Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The caption provided by a social media user read: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently.”
With all the subtlety of a third-rate comic, the post jabbed at the vice president’s relationship in the 1990s with Willie Brown — who would later become the mayor of San Francisco — and former President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
On “The Source,” Brown and commentator Maggie Haberman of The New York Times tried to make sense of it.
“Trump, for his part, went on a reposting spree today, as I know you’ve seen, Maggie, including one that kind of makes my stomach feel sick,” Brown said. “It involves both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris with a crude sexual reference that suggested that Harris used sexual favors to advance her career. We are not gonna show that post. And the Harris campaign responded to all his truthing, saying, quote, ‘Donald Trump is out of his mind.’ But what does this signal to you about Trump’s thinking and how Kamala Harris is getting under his skin?”
Haberman said Trump hopes that “people will talk about it” while using it to “amplify” misogynistic claims about his Democratic opponent.
“I think he has been trying to bait Kamala Harris and her supporters into a fight about race, a fight about gender,” Haberman continued. “And that’s what this speaks to. And I think that they have for the most part ignored it.”
