Trump and Harris haven’t interacted face to face but they’re 'hardly strangers': columnist

A Washington Post columnist noted Monday that while Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump may not have met each other face to face, their past shows they know each other "all too well."

During Harris' first sit-down interview with CNN anchor Dana Bashlast week, Bash remarked that she was "a little bit surprised" that Harris and Trump had "never interacted face-to-face.

But Colbert I. King disagreed.

"Consider me unsurprised," he wrote in a column published Monday. "Trump and Harris are hardly strangers."

King highlighted that the two "have interacted and know each other all too well," including in 2020 when then-Sen. Harris and her colleagues "held the fate of President Trump in their hands" in an impeachment trial on charges of abuse of power and obstructing justice after Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine if the country failed to investigate Hunter Biden.

In that chamber, she posed a written question that was read aloud by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in which she said Trump's statements suggested he believed a president was "above the law."

"If the Senate fails to hold the president accountable for misconduct, how would that undermine the integrity of our system of justice?" asked Harris.

King argues that Harris' stinging question "went to the heart of Trump's abuse of power."

She also served as vice president when the Senate voted, unsuccessfully, to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6.