Donald Trump and his camp of aides has become “fixated” on a barely-known Kamala Harris aide who criticized him on Fox News, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The low-level adviser has been attacked more than three dozen times in just three weeks, the report states.
The man, a 35-year-old called Ian Sams, is a foot soldier in Democratic politics whose name was hardly known before he appeared on Fox News in mid-October.
He spoke to host Neil Cavuto in an 8-minute segment which touched on Trump’s refusal to release medical records and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, “all while smiling affably as Cavuto, at times, talked over him and tried to cut him off,’ according to the report.
He also criticized Trump for his reluctance to do mainstream media interviews.
The Post reported that Trump was watching — and was furious. His first Truth Social post hit out at Sams while he was still on the air.
“How much time does Ian Sams, Senior Advisor to Lyin’ Kamala Harris, spend on FoxNews?” it said. It called him “just a below average guy, with memorized FAKE NEWS sound bites, almost all of which are WRONG.”
The ex-president brought up Sams’ name again a few days later, writing that the aide “virtually owns” Fox News.
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The Post counted that there have now been at least 15 posts about Sams from Trump advisor Stephen Miller, nine from another staffer, Jason Miller, and six from the Trump campaign account. His spokesman Tum Murtaugh took aim four times.
“It seems like the only person who watches more of Ian’s hits on TV than Trump are his blood relatives,” a friend of Sams, Lily Adams, told the Post.
“Since his Fox News star turn, they have begun attacking him far more often than any other Harris aide and have become fixated on him, following the lead of their boss,” the Post reported.
“Appearing on Jen Psaki’s MSNBC show Sunday evening, Sams addressed his unexpected star turn in Mar-a-Lago circles with the sort of aw-shucks sincerity that seemed to belie his true intention: to bait Trump yet again. ‘I don’t really know why Donald Trump seems to be spending his time TiVo-ing Fox News appearances and lashing out against spokespeople,” Sams said. “That’s not something that the vice president does.”
