Politics III: Harris on Israel support 23 October CNN transcript

Here are Harris’s answers about Israel and Trump’s antisemitism.  This is from the CNN transcript of her responses — https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2024-10-23/segment/01

She couldn’t bring herself to say that she supports Israel, given the opportunity.  A wonderful nonanswer to Cooper’s question about Israel support.  I think she’s antiSemitic which is the subject of the next post.

I think there is more to the interview which isn’t here, but CNN notes that these things are continually updated.

“COOPER: Do you believe Donald Trump is Antisemitic?

HARRIS: I believe Donald Trump is a danger to the well-being and security of America.

COOPER: He has said that he — he’s casting himself as a protector of Israel. Do you believe you would be more pro-Israel than Donald Trump?

HARRIS: I believe that Donald Trump is dangerous. I believe that, when you have a president of the United States who has said to his generals, who work for him because he is commander in chief — these conversations, I assume many of them took place in the Oval Office.

And if the president of the United States, the commander in chief, is saying to his generals, in essence, “Why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals?” Anderson, come on. This is a serious, serious issue. And we know who he is. He admires dictators, sending love letters back and forth with Kim Jong-un; talks about the president of Russia, and then, most recently, the reports are that, in the height of COVID, when most Americans could not get their hands on a COVID test, Americans were dying by the hundreds a day, he secretly sent COVID tests to the president of Russia for his personal use.

So, again, there — this — this election in 13 days is presenting the American people with a very significant decision. And on the one side, on this issue of who is going to model what it means to use the bully pulpit of the president of the United States in a manner that, in tone, word and deed, is about lifting up our discourse, fighting against hate, as opposed to fanning the flames of hate, which Donald Trump does consistently.

I — I’m going to tell you. We are an incredible country, and we love our country. You all wouldn’t be here unless we love our country. And there are certain things where we’ve just got to come together and realize that — that — that we do believe in the importance of healthy debate on real issues, but there are certain standards we’ve got to have.

And, you know, another point that even John Kelly talked about, I believe, and many have, is January 6th, where you have the president of the United States defying the will of the people in a free and fair election and unleashing a violent mob, who attacked the United States Capitol. One hundred forty law enforcement officers were attacked. Some were killed.

And so I — I say that to say the American people deserve to have a president who encourages healthy debate, works across the aisle, not afraid of good ideas wherever they come from, but also maintains certain standards about how we think about the role and the responsibility, and certainly not comparing oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler. ”