Former daytime TV host Montel Williams is rejecting calls from the media to comment on his one-time relationship with Vice President Kamala Harris, warning that anyone attempting to solicit him will receive an “unpleasant reaction.”
“I’ve said what I’m going to say about the thing that keeps trending,” he wrote on the X platform in a since-deleted tweet, seemingly referring to his decades-old relationship with Harris. “My friends in the media should think twice about wasting time on a 20+-year-old picture—you will find doing so will earn an unpleasant reaction.”
In another now-deleted tweet, Williams posted a screengrab from his media rep showing him shutting down Harris questions. “Ask stupid questions, win stupid prizes. I’m going to do this to every reporter who asks me this creepy, misogynistic question. I have no obligation to be cordial to reporters asking creepy and inappropriate questions,” the rep, Jonathan Franks, once posted.
In an X post that is still online, Williams previously stated he and Harris “briefly dated about 20 years ago when we were both single. So what? I have great respect for Sen. Harris. I have to wonder if the same stories about her dating history would have been written if she were a male candidate?”
Williams has been active on social media since the news broke that Harris was now the likely Democratic nominee for president, but initially seemed hesitant to endorse her. At first, he reposted Biden’s withdrawal news with an endorsement of a different candidate, Maryland governor Wes Moore, even though Moore hadn’t expressed an intention to run himself.
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As Williams voiced his support for Moore, he seemed to address why he publicly supported the Maryland governor before Harris: “Is anyone surprised I am interested in a politician who also went to the Naval Academy and whose leadership has impressed me?” he posted.
In the end, Williams did express tacit support for Harris by reposting Moore’s endorsement of her and then screenshotting the action again with the caption “Reminding folks I RT’d this.”
British TV journalist Piers Morgan over the weekend characterized Vice President Kamala Harris as the “most far-left senator” in modern history while also predicting that the “honeymoon” period she’s experiencing as she launches her bid for the presidency will be shortlived.
Morgan joined Fox News Saturday Night, hosted by Jimmy Failla, who had previously compared former President Donald Trump to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. He argued that both Trump and the singer are showmen who have not slowed down with age. He also predicted that Trump was just getting started in relation to the election.
After getting serious about the upcoming race, Morgan said he believed Harris faced a tough road ahead against Trump in November. In his analysis, Morgan claimed that Biden was pressured to drop out of the race by Democratic Party elites. He also likened the party’s leaders to the ruthless characters in the 1990 mafia film, “Goodfellas.”
“I think the whole thing has been a fascinating exercise in the ruthless betrayal nature of politics,” he said. “One minute, they are all over you like a rash, and the next minute, you are a rash.”
Morgan was then asked by Failla to address the media “propaganda,” which he said portrays Harris in a positive light while frequently overlooking her record on issues and her overall unpopularity.
“Now we are being told she’s the greatest person in the world despite the fact she ran for president, and when she dropped out, she was pulling behind ISIS,” Failla quipped.
“She’s getting a fantastically amazing honeymoon, and it’s going to last about a week,” Morgan said. “Then reality will kick in, and Donald Trump will start going very hard, as he already is about her record, and her record is she is literally, probably the most far-left senator in modern American history.”
WATCH:
Piers Morgan on the Kamala ‘honeymoon’: “She’s getting a fantastically amazing honeymoon, and it’s going to last about a week. Then reality will kick in.”
Hilarious segment from Fox’s Jimmy Failla. pic.twitter.com/WmTWHewDxD
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