Trump Changes Tune And Tells Fox News He Can ‘Make a Case For Not’ Debating Kamala Harris, But ‘Probably’ Will

Former President Donald Trump changed his tune on firmly committing to debate Vice President Kamala Harris during a Fox News interview on Monday night. Last week, Trump told reporters, “Oh, yes, absolutely. I’d want to,” when asked if he’d debate Harris, but told Fox’s Laura Ingraham that he’d “probably” debate Harris and could now “make the case” for not doing it.

Trump replied to Ingraham pressing him on committing to debate by initially saying the American people “know who I am. And now people know who she is.”

“She’s a radical left lunatic. She’ll destroy our country. She wants open borders,” Trump continued as Ingraham interjected, “Then why not debate her?”

“Well wait, because they already know everything. She wants to defund our police. She wants no bail. She wants no cash. You just. You kill somebody and we’re going to release you immediately. They call it cashless. Cashless! That’s it. By the way, this has been a horrible thing for our country. This has been what I just said. But we know where she is. She wants high taxes,” Trump replied.

Ingraham pushed back, “Well, they’re going to say you’re afraid of debating her. That’s what they’re going to say.”
“Well, they said that with Biden, too. You know, ‘I was afraid,’ I did great with Biden and I did great in every debate. I’ve had a lot of debates,” Trump replied as Ingraham offered some praise, saying, “You’re winning on all the issues, right?”

“You know, I’m leading in the polls by, I think, a lot I don’t know, I hear different numbers, but I’m leading in all of the polls. I’m leading big in all the swing states. And I say this, the answer is yes. I’ll probably end up debating. I think actually the debate should take place before the votes start being cast. You know, when you. I had a very good second debate with Biden. They really beat him badly. The problem was 30-40% of the votes were already cast. If you’re going to have a debate, you got to do it before I think before the votes are cast. I think it’s very important that you do that. So the answer is yes, but I can also make a case for not doing it,” Trump replied, adding:

Also, I don’t like rewarding fake news. I don’t like rewarding the people that have been up… There going to make tens of millions of dollars with this debate. I don’t like ABC. I think it’s a terrible, terrible outfit. I don’t like that ABC is going to get rich, George Slopadopoless, as I call him. I don’t like it such. I mean, these are such bad people. I don’t like that ABC is going to get rich. I don’t like and I will say something that when she intended the last one, they were very fair. They were. Jake Tapper was very fair.

Harris’s campaign said on Monday that she will show up at the September 10th ABC News debate regardless of whether or not Trump does.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.