A secretly-filmed video of Donald Trump tearing into Kamala Harris has been leapt on by liberals claiming it caught him calling his presidential rival a 'b***h'.
The Republican candidate was sitting next to his son Barron on a golf cart when he stopped to chat to some players at one of his courses on July 2.
When one of them posted the footage hours later most viewers thought they heard the ex-president say of Harris 'she's so bad, she's so pathetic, she just so f***ing bad.'
But the footage is being scrutinized again after hostile claims in the NYT at the weekend that Trump routinely refers to Harris in private as a 'b***h'.
'Great role model calling the VP of the US and his new opponent a f***ing b***h in front of his teenage son Baron,' tweeted liberal commentator Gretchen Carlson.
Donald Trump was captured on video giving his honest, unsparing thoughts on Kamala Harris, with his son Barron riding shotgun next to him
Others have jumped on the bandwagon including leading LGBTQ rights activist Marlene Robertson who insisted the footage records the ex-President 'loudly and clearly calling her a f**king b***h'.
But the then-Biden-Harris 2024 campaign responded to the footage by slamming Trump for calling Harris 'so f***king bad', and the new claims about what he said has left some demanding that Democrats get their hearing checked.
'Why are you lying when people can clearly hear him say 'bad'? demanded one.
'You are literally fake news,' wrote another. 'Shame on you and all who support you.'
'The man may have called her that, maybe worse, but he doesn't in this tape and I'm terrified at how many people are parroting the lie,' added a third.
The video reveals that Trump was convinced Biden would quit nearly three weeks before the President announced that he would stand down.
Speaking days Biden's disastrous performance against him in the first presidential debate, Trump asked the golfers 'How did I do with the debate the other night?'
Without waiting for a reply he tells them: 'I kicked that old, broken down pile of crap.
'He's quitting the race. I got him out the race, and that means we have Kamala.
The liberal New York Times claimed that Trump routinely refers to Kamala Harris a 'b***h', and has been rattled by the Democrats' improved poll ratings since she won the nomination
Most people who heard the video were incredulous at the suggestion that Trump used the misogynistic claim while speaking on the golf course
'I think she's gonna be better. She's so bad. She's so pathetic, she's just so f***ing bad'
'Can you imagine that guy dealing with Putin and the president of China, who's a fierce person? He's a fierce man. Very tough guy.'
The NYT profile suggested that Trump was looking forward to challenging Biden and has been rattled by the Democrats' improved poll ratings since Harris stepped up.
'Mr Trump had grown comfortable campaigning against an 81-year-old incumbent who struggled to navigate stairs, thoughts and sentences,' reporter Maggie Haberman wrote.
'Suddenly, he finds himself in a race against a Black woman nearly 20 years younger, one who has already made history and who is drawing large and excited crowds.'
Haberman noted that Trump has publicly referred to Harris as 'nasty', and claimed that two of his inner circle told her they had heard him repeatedly refer to his new opponent as a 'b***h' in private.
But it claimed his mood improved after she picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate over Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro who, he feared, might deliver the crucial state to the Democrats in November's election.
Yashar Ali of the liberal Huffington Post admitted that Trump was not recorded using the term
The ex-president has not held back with his attacks on the former California Atorney General accusing her of destroying the state and questioning her racial identity with claims that she 'happened to turn black' when it became politically convenient.
But he has appeared relaxed about the secretly recorded video, even going so far as to repost it on his Truth Social platform.
And his campaign team has denied he has ever called his opponent a b***h.
'That is not language President Trump has used to describe Kamala, and it's not how the campaign would characterize her,' said campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.
