Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is facing a new accusation from an attorney for former President Donald Trump, who claimed that the vice president was “co-conspiring” to hide President Joe Biden’s declining mental state for nearly four years.
In addition, attorney/spokeswoman Alina Habba suggested that Harris’ actions might be criminal.
Habba addressed a crowd of Trump supporters at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The lawyer currently serves as a senior adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign.
“President Trump has been and is innocent of any crime other than loving this country,” Habba began, per Fox News.
“Let me tell you, Kamala,” she continued. “You are committing a crime because the only co-conspirator I know of the Biden-Harris administration is you, and you have lied to us about President Biden for the last three and a half years.”
She then pivoted to a basket of policies she supported alongside Biden that have been harmful to the country and a majority of Americans, including a porous southwestern border, high inflation and interest rates, and elevated gas, food, and housing prices.
A newly resurfaced tweet from 2019 has gone viral again in which Harris’ father publicly took her to task over a remark she made that appeared to stereotype Jamaicans.
Harris, who was running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, admitted she smoked pot and supported marijuana legalization because “half my family’s from Jamaica” during an interview in February of that year, which led her father to publicly rebuke her for fraudulently stereotyping Jamaicans as “pot-smoking joy seekers” and accused his daughter of pursuing “identity politics.”
Donald Harris, a retired Stanford professor, refuted his daughter’s linking of her Jamaican heritage to pot smoking during her appearance on “The Breakfast Club” morning radio program.
“My dear departed grandmothers…as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their graves right now to see their family’s name, reputation, and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” he said in a statement to Jamaica Global Online before his Breakfast Club appearance.
“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” Donald Harris added.
Kamala Harris appeared on the nationally syndicated morning show to discuss her 2020 presidential campaign, criminal justice reform, and the legalization of marijuana in the U.S. During the 44-minute interview, she addressed rumors that she is opposed to legalizing pot in America.
“That’s not true,” Harris said. “And look, I joke about it— half joking—half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”
Later, host Charlamagne Tha God asked Harris whether she had personally smoked the drug. “I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale. It was a joint,” Harris said, noting that she smoked while in college.
“So if it was legalized all throughout the country, and medicinal, would you again?” Charlamagne asked.
“Listen,” Harris responded, “I think that it gives a lot of people joy, and we need more joy.”
She added: “Not all drugs are the same. We have incarcerated so many, particularly young men—and young men of color—in a way that we have not, for the same level of use, other young men. And we’ve got to deal with that.”
