Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign hinges on portraying her as spending her early years in office as a tough, crime-fighting prosecutor, but new records show that as recently as last year, her new persona was a complete lie.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, have written checks to far-left legal groups that promote harmful policies like defunding the police and turning Washington, D.C., into a permanent sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. according to According to financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Examiner, Ms. Harris and Mr. Emhoff’s joint tax returns show that they Legal Aid DC In 2023 and 2021.
NEW: Tax records reveal that just last year, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff personally wrote checks to a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that supported cuts to police budgets and lobbied for permanent “sanctuary city” laws for illegal immigrants.https://t.co/WZ7794I995
— Gabe Kaminsky (@gekaminsky) August 7, 2024
On the surface, Legal Aid DC is a nonprofit in Washington, DC, that provides access to legal representation to residents in low-income neighborhoods. But beneath the surface of community giving, the Washington Examiner reports, the organization is also supporting not just those in support of the 2020 George Floyd riots, but those in the community who have been affected by the violence. Promoted The ideology of defunding police in our nation’s Capitol. Luke: Democrats are implementing voting plans set up by Kamala's staff in battleground states.
As Legal Aid's Amanda Kober pointed out in her article, we have concerns about any solution that involves increased police presence or security in DC public housing, especially in light of the ongoing protests. #BlackLivesMatterDC https://t.co/EX73qgZGmM
— Legal Aid DC (@LegalAidDC) June 10, 2020
In 2021, the organization Posts of article The quote comes from Jeremiah Ellison, a Minneapolis City Councilman who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2020, Ellison tweeted his desire to “dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.”
“I am going to disband the Minneapolis Police Department,” Ellison wrote in a post, “and when I'm done, I'm not just going to stick it back together. I am going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. It's long overdue.”
I'm going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.
And when you're done, you can't just glue the pieces together.
We are going to fundamentally rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response.
It's really past due. https://t.co/7WIxUL6W79
— Jeremiah Ellison (@jeremiah4north) June 4, 2020
Legal Aid DC also worked Enacting Laws passed it The law that turned Washington DC into a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants in 2020. This law allows the U.S. Marshall and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement It would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from detaining illegal immigrants outside of Washington, DC's courthouses and prevent the city's jails from being used as ICE detention centers. Luke: Everything that happens in the UK is predictable and has implications for the US.
Conservatives have revealed on Twitter that Harris previously supported these measures. included A link to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which raises bail money for rioters who burned down Minnesota cities. (Post is still active.)
If you're able, please donate now MN Freedom Fund To help pay bail for people protesting locally in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020
Harris, who lost the 2020 presidential election, Promoted Radical policies included the elimination of court-mandated fines and mandatory minimum sentences, no punishment for parole violations and reduced probation penalties, no arrests of juveniles who commit crimes at school, automatic expungement and sealing of felony records, and an end to mass incarceration.
Kamala Harris has said it is “misinformation” that she promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left group that has released bail for violent criminals, including suspected murderers and rapists.
She is lying. pic.twitter.com/KIBR8v4twJ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 22, 2022
These policies were extremely popular among Democrats during the 2020 race riots, but are unpopular now because Americans don't want to live in anarchy, which is probably why her campaign has removed any mention of her support. Instead, she has taken to touting her background as a prosecutor to hide her radical, far-left beliefs. Luke: Kamala gives in to the far left in first major campaign decision
Harris has been one of the most vocal Democrats in support of extending social security and legal status to illegal immigrants who break the law when they enter the country. During her term as border secretary under President Joe Biden, record numbers of illegal immigrants have flocked to the US border.
If Harris wins in November, she will not be the moderate president her campaign is portraying her to be, but rather, like her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, she will come to power intent on imposing a whole host of radical, far-left policies on the American people and changing the country beyond recognition.