The nets have just ignored how vice president Kamala Harris has been just churning out staffers while former employees report that she is an abusive boss. Their stories paint the picture of an entitled Harris pitching fits when she doesn’t get her way. However, a new book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns exposed Harris in an unexpected plot twist.
Unexpected because the NYT drools over Harris, usually. What’s funny is I don’t think they intended to put the vice president on blast like this. It’s my opinion that they were trying to make her seem like a victim/
Politico reported on several excerpts of the book due out May 3 titled “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” and detailed several other instances that had apparently set Harris off.
First was the Vogue cover photo, which was leaked two weeks prior to the inauguration — and, according to the book, was not the photo Harris had expected. Despite weeks of campaigning in her signature Converse sneakers, Harris apparently felt that the cover photo featuring her wearing them, along with a pair of skinny pants, was “an approachable but less than grand depiction of the incoming vice president.”
“Harris was wounded. She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would Vogue depict another world leader this way?” Martin and Burns wrote, noting that after Harris’ objections, Vogue ultimately sold a limited edition issue with the photo the Vice President had preferred.
Vogue Editor-in-Chief said at the time that she had chosen the photo that she felt was more “relatable,” but Kamala didn’t see it that way.
Harris apparently exploded and was enraged when Biden’s team blocked her from responding. They warned her that now was “not the time” to wage war with Vogue, particularly over an issue that was viewed by the president’s staff as primarily “aesthetic.”
“It was an early indication that members of the Biden-Harris teams were on different pages with different priorities. The dynamic didn’t improve from there,” the Politico report continued. “Martin and Burns document an increasingly fraught relationship between the West Wing and the vice president’s office filled with anger, eye-rolling, portfolio feuds, and real and perceived slights.”
Being already ‘at odds’ with Biden staffers who were trying to prevent her from making a fool of herself, Harris also apparently snaps when they forget to stand as she enters a room. Harris reportedly said it was “a sign of disrespect.”
During Biden’s campaign, he vowed to fire anyone in the White House who mistreated employees—I guess Harris gets a pass?