(UnitedHeadlines.com) – Records show that Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, 78, donated to Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, when she ran for attorney general in California.
Trump donated twice to Harris before the 2015 launch of his presidential campaign. In 2011, Trump made a $5,000 donation, and in 2013, he made a $1,000 donation to Harris’ campaign.
The former president was not the only Trump family member to donate to Harris’ campaign. In 2014, Ivanka Trump made a $2,000 donation.
In 2015, a Harris spokesperson stated that the money Trump donated to Harris’ campaign was donated to a nonprofit group that helps Central Americans.
According to a report in 2019, Trump said in an affidavit that the $5,000 donation was made at the request of Eric Schneiderman, who was New York’s attorney general at the time.
However, in 2020, Trump’s senior advisor Katrina Pierson stated Trump had made donations “to candidates across all aisles,” adding that she hoped the donation to Harris could help “squash this racism argument now.”
In 2004, Harris became the district attorney of San Francisco. From 2011 to 2017, she served as California’s attorney general before she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. While a senator, Harris served on the Senate Judiciary Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president before dropping out of the race before Iowa.
The revelation comes as President Joe Biden made the decision to end his reelection bid on July 21 and endorsed Harris to replace him. As of July 22, Harris has received enough delegates pledged to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
On July 21, Trump responded to the news of Biden dropping out and endorsing Harris in a post on Truth Social. In the post, he said Harris was “just as much of a joke as Biden is,” criticizing her “liberal, weak-on-crime record” in California.
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