Former Vice President Kamala Harris said she could hear President Donald Trump “selling his book” in the background during a phone call she placed after an assassination attempt against him at his Florida golf course last year.
Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday, host Jimmy Kimmel criticized Trump for “selling watches on television” and asked Harris whether she would have done something similar had she won the presidency.
Harris didn’t answer the question directly. Smiling, she pivoted to her recently released memoir, 107 Days, telling Kimmel: “But you know what I do talk about?”
She then described a call she said she made during the 2024 campaign.
“During the campaign, what happened was — I called [Trump] — it was actually a very sad occasion, which was — it was after there was an attempt on his life, and I called him to check on him,” Harris said. “It was actually a fascinating experience for me because while I was [told] one minute, ‘We’re going to go and get him,’ I could hear him in the background, and he was selling his book to somebody.”
Harris said Trump was “basically hawking his book” during the call, which she said struck her as jarring given what she viewed as the gravity of the moment.
“The contrast around the reality of the significance of an attempt to assassinate a former president of the United States, a candidate and a nominee at that point for president. And the fact that, at that very — what should be a somber moment for all of us, that that was happening in the background was … unbelievable,” she said. “But, you know, at this point, not surprising, right?”
Since releasing 107 Days in September, Harris has been on a media tour promoting the memoir about her short-lived 2024 presidential campaign.
In the book, Harris recounts the phone call following what she describes as the second assassination attempt, writing that Trump privately offered praise.
“You’ve done a great job, you really have,” Harris claimed Trump told her. “My only problem is it makes it very hard for me to be angry at you.”
Harris also wrote that Trump promised to “tone it down” on the campaign trail and said his daughter Ivanka Trump was a “big fan.”
Despite what she described as a cordial exchange, Harris wrote that she remained skeptical of Trump’s demeanor.
“He’s a con man. He’s really good at it,” she wrote.
Asked for comment by Fox News Digital, White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston responded: “The American people don’t deserve to suffer through this excruciating and never-ending book tour. Kamala Harris lost the popular vote, Electoral College, and all seven swing states in a landslide election defeat more than a year ago to President Trump. No amount of whining now can change the fact that Kamala Harris is a loser.”
