Ex-Trump insider explains how Harris got under the former president's 'famously thin skin'

A man who has spent a lot of time with Donald Trump explained on Saturday how he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris is getting under his skin.

Trump biographer Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the former president and the upcoming election. Earlier in the interview, O'Brien noted that Trump could lose half of his entire net worth if he doesn't win back the presidency in November.

After that portion of the interview, O'Brien was asked whether or not Harris got under Trump's skin at the Democratic National Convention. The host played a clip of Trump insulting Harris' looks at the event.

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"I think she got under his famously thin skin weeks ago, the second the mantle was passed on to her from Joe Biden because of the renewed energy in the campaign, and I think the Democrats had about 140,000 volunteers come out of the woodwork in the four weeks since she was named as the Democratic flag bearer and she is getting all this enthusiasm that Trump has lost and he is deadly aware of that," O'Brien said before explaining his view on why Trump is so threatened by the current vice president.

"He's also deadly aware of her celebrity power. He isn't a student of many things but he is a student of celebrity and I think he recognizes that she brings an unusual charisma here," he said. "So, the statements he's making say more about him than her, and he has been very focused and made all sorts of comments about her beauty, about her smile, about how she speaks, and he is clearly obsessed with it and afraid of it."

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