12mo ago

Donald Trump donated to Kamala Harris' campaigns twice while he was a private citizen, records show

www.businessinsider.com

Donald Trump contributed $6,000 to Kamala Harris when she ran for California attorney general.
Trump donated $5,000 to her 2011 campaign and $1,000 in 2013 as a private citizen.
Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday and endorsed Kamala to replace him.

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People forget that Trump wasn't a Republican until like 2012. The only reason he ran Republican was that someone convinced him that was the only way he'd ever win. Remember, winning at all costs is literally the only thing Donald Trump cares about.
- Honestly, he's never been a Democrat or a Republican. Even now, if you go by what the Republican party was before he took it over. He's always been a Trumpist, nothing more and nothing less. He cares solely, without exception, for one thing: Donald Trump.
  
  Absolutely true but he will give these fucks what they want in exchange for adoration
  
  Sounds like a modern Republican.
  
  Hey! That's not true!!! You need to be fair here.
  ........he also loves Mcdonalds.
- i'm skeptical. but i think i'll enjoy spending the next 3 months thinking about republicans flying into a blind frothing rage over losing to a black woman
  
  Oh my god, if we think Obama sent them into a fury. Buckle up folks.
  
  She's not much better than Biden. She doesn't even have age as an excuse.
  Our imagination might be the only place she wins.
- That's not entirely true, his turn to republicans was a little sooner. Trump was the "Long Form Birth Certificate" guy all during the Obama years.
- Until the democrats choose a black person as candidate.
- he might not have been a republican but he was a paleoconservative who ran for president in 2000 under buchanan's party
Side note: He's a private citizen right now.
- with immunity though.
  
  I was going to make a "just been revoked" joke, but I suppose someone tried that already.
I would love for her ads to end with a line saying, "This message paid for in part by Donald Trump."
- God damn it would make him upset.
  
  He just might shit himself. Before 10am. Again. A fourth time.
I haven't gotten to do a Riker in a few days. It's like taking off an uncomfortable pair of shoes.
- Thank you, I needed that. 😆
- Whew, those dogs were barkin'
She's a conservative like most Democratic candidates and Trump used to be a moderate conservative.
- Ranked most politically left compared to Senate Democrats
  Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.
  For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Harris’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.
  Compare to all Senate Sophomores (0th percentile); Senate Democrats (0th percentile); All Senators (1st percentile).
  https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2020
  
  Yeah, but all Senators in the Republican and Democratic party are right wing. Bernie Sanders is an independent so not included in the "Senate Democrats" label. He is a centrist and thus left of her slightly, but there are no leftists in the Senate. Their scale is just from most to least right leaning and not from left to right for a reason.
  
  In addition to what @riotsoma said below, people also don't like her due to her actions as a prosecutor before she was in the Senate. They equate her with police basically.
  I disagree wholeheartedly with how she handled drugs in CA, etc., but let's be clear: prosecutors are not cops. How would a modern society function without them? Truly, this is an open question to all those "Kamala is a cop I'll never vote for her" people.
- no way this is a serious post lol
  good bait
  
  Lol she literally made her name putting black people away on weed charges in Oakland. She's conservative af. Still will vote for her though.
This is the best response when conspiracy nuts try to talk about the Trump shooter donating to a Dem PAC to prove he wasn't one of their own.
Plus he donated in response to whether or not Dems should pardon Trump.
- I think the better response, even if a democrat voter DOES do something like this in the future is "Yeah, ok, but it's your policies that allowed him to get a gun so easily without any mental wellbeing checks, or any gun control. Our policies would have stopped him. Your policies gave him free reign."
  
  "Yeah, ok, but it's your policies that allowed him to get a gun so easily without any mental wellbeing checks
  That's not an effective argument.
  It wasn't his gun, it was his father's, and he took it without the knowledge or permission of the gun's legal owner.
- Isn't that completely unproven, and likely a different person with the same name?
  
  I think it has been verified by address, but my source for that is a Legal Eagle video on YouTube, so take that with about a quarter pound of salt.
Should they ever meet on stage for a debate she should thank him
- if they ever meet on stage, trump is cook. an experienced prosecutor going against a convicted felon? good night.
He should probably drop out of the race.
- The human race.
So? This is NOTHING! But Thomas Crooks giving $15 to Democrats PROVES HE WAS ACTUALLY A DEMOCRAT!
- Apparently not. The address of the donation matches the shooter, not the 60 year old.
  But still, a donation so small that it's about the same as a McDonald's meal is hardly what I would call a screaming endorsement.
  
  Unless he lived at the shooter's address, it supposedly wasn't.
No that wasn’t Trump! He just let them license his name for the donation. He didn’t make that donation! He can’t be held responsible for the things people do in his name! That’s crazy talk!
- Well, guess that means he just can't take credit for other things than either. Trump never picked up a hammer, never worked on that wall. Guess Trump never built that wall. Someone else just did it in his name....So I assume his base will be angry over the news that Trump failed to build them that damned wall. But that's his problem.
  
  You libs and yer damn logic! When will you ever learn people don’t care about all that nonsense!
Why is this even news? Nobody cared when he donated $100k to the Clinton foundation, nobody cares about this either
- I care.
  Kamala Harris is such a good candidate even Donald Trump financially supports her.
  
  Kamala Harris is corrupt! She’s been taking donations from convicted felons!
  
  And it will make for a good line at a debate.
  I mean, she could even open with it:
  "First of all, before we get into it, I'd like to thank Mr. Trump for his donation to my 2011 campaign for attorney general of California. As a New York resident, you couldn't have voted for me in that election. But, this time around I hope I can count on your vote for President. Unless that felony conviction prevents you from voting..."
- It's just piling on the mille feuille that is Trump's outrageous hypocrisy
He was using money to try to buy influence just like Epstein used to do because he has long been a creature of the machine. Politically important people get away with things.
when you're a star, they let you do it
IMO what's interesting about this timing is that in 2011 Trump wasn't yet running for office, but he was at the head of the racist "birther" movement. And, this was months after Obama had made fun of Trump at the White House correspondents dinner.
So, while this isn't GOP presidential-candidate Trump supporting a democrat, it's definitely after Trump started getting involved in politics as an opponent of the democratic president.
All these gruesome pictures of trump need to be marked NSFW.
And....?
Sorry, Trump. No takesy-backsies!
Says more about Harris than Trump tbh. She hates Black people as much as he does and actively worked to harm them by arresting BLM protesters and fighting to keep them in jail when they should have been released.

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