Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris upped the ante on her party’s empty promises of “Free Stuff!” by claiming that if she gets elected, she would invest $100 billion of taxpayer money into housing assistance for black families to help them pay for their homes.
Kamala Harris’ latest pandering scheme is part of her effort to buy black votes.
“After generations of discrimination, it’s time to give Black families a real shot at home-ownership,” She said yesterday at Essence magazine’s Global Black Economic Forum (video below).
“If we eliminate racial wealth disparities in home-ownership rates, median Black wealth would grow $32,113 per household, and the wealth gap between Black and white households would shrink 31%.” She said.
Her program means to assist black Americans living in “red-lined” communities, and areas that the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation dissuaded lenders from investing in.
“Redlining has resulted in households of color receiving just 2% of the [Federal Housing Administration] loans expanded between 1934 to 1962, and formerly red lined neighborhoods are sites of deep racial disparities in home value and lending activity,” according to Kamala Harris’ campaign website.
She made the announcement after recent polls showed Harris gaining on presidential front-runner Joe Biden after she accused him of being a racist because he worked with segregationist Democrats many years ago.
Harris was heavily mocked on Twitter for pandering to black voters and pointed out that Harris’ ancestors in Jamaica owned slaves many years ago.
One user noted: “Her Jamaican family decendants were slave owners… The historical accounts are so detailed that should Kamala Harris want to search out the families of the people her relative reportedly tortured, she would probably be able to find them, and pay reparations to them herself.”
“Just how much of our money do you plan to spend to buy the presidency?” Another user asked.
Just how much of our money do you plan to spend to buy the presidency ?
“Translation: lower standards for black people because I don’t believe they can succeed without me stacking the deck for them in exchange for their votes.” Another tweet said.
This Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris unloaded her unfounded assessment of the president during a Des Moines, Iowa campaign event, labeling him a “predator” and claiming he has “predatory instincts.”
You can imagine the outcry if President Trump said something like that about any Democrat.
“I prosecuted the big banks when they preyed on homeowners. I prosecuted the pharmaceutical companies when they preyed on seniors. I prosecuted transnational criminal organizations when they preyed on women and children,” said the California Democrat, blasting the president over everything from detention centers at the border and his health care proposals to his “trade tax.”
“I know predators, and we have a predator living in the White House,” she declared.
"I know predators," Sen. Kamala Harris says in Iowa, citing her prosecutions of big banks, criminal organizations and others, "and we have a predator living in the White House." https://t.co/NkJuIoyFEppic.twitter.com/aclZ6zFawe
“Donald Trump has predatory nature and predatory instincts,” Harris continued, apparently believing that as a former prosecutor she was qualified to make the assessment.
“The thing about predators, you should know, is that they prey on the vulnerable. They prey on those who they do not believe are strong. The thing about predators you must, most importantly know: Predators are cowards,” she added.
“And so when we look at this campaign, and we look at the task before us, it will be to successfully prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump, and I am prepared to do that,” said Harris.
Unsurprisingly, a CNN panel thought that Harris was on target and it wasn’t going too far to label the president – or anyone – with the description.
“Calling the President a predator. This is somebody who has, obviously, as a former prosecutor and attorney general in California, San Francisco, prosecuted predators. Too strong, do you think?” CNN host Jake Tapper asked on Wednesday during “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
“Not at all,” Former senior spokesperson for Hillary Clinton Campaign Karen Finney replied, citing the Access Hollywood tape in 2016 as well as unverified allegations by several women against the President, including the recent alleged rape accusation from writer E. Jean Carroll.
“And I think we’ve established that this President is not someone who is particularly pro-woman. That is certainly our feeling from the Democratic side,” Finney said.
“And I think she probably felt like you got to get in there and be strong about it because that is what people are feeling,” she said about Kamala Harris. “And whereas before they might have been willing to kind of put that aside and hold their nose and vote for Trump or they didn’t like Hillary and they voted for Trump, now we know more, not just about him and women, but we know more about his policies.”
Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and former aide to Gov. Mike Huckabee, thought that Kamala Harris was just trying to grab headlines with her insult on President Trump. She also noted that Trump’s supporters have given him a “Mulligan” on past alleged behavior.
“And to our knowledge, it has not continued to happen. And the most important point is for social evangelicals who have a real problem with that kind of behavior, he has followed through on the policies that we support him on, which is Supreme Court, life and religious liberties,” Stewart explained.
“His personal behavior, yes, it has been disturbing, but his policies are the reason a lot of people stand behind him,” she added.
Sen. Kamala Harris posted Father’s Day greetings on Twitter this Sunday comparing deployed military fathers who are away from their children on Father’s Day to illegal aliens and accused criminals.
The Democratic Party presidential candidate listed them in presumed order of dearness to her heart, putting military dads third behind first-in-her heart illegal aliens and accused criminals who can’t make bail.
“Today I’m thinking of the fathers who can’t be with their children because they were ripped from their sons and daughters at the border. The fathers who can’t celebrate today because they can’t afford bail. The fathers who are deployed. Don’t forget them. #FathersDay” posted Harris.
People on social media found Senator Kamala Harris’ Twitter post very disrespectful for military dads and didn’t wait long to respond to the 2020 presidential candidate.
“How disrespectful without those military dads we might not be free to celebrate Father’s Day these dads help keep this nation free.” said one comment.
“The difference being that both are separated from their children for very different reasons. The outrage and sympathy from the left goes to the illegals.” wrote another.
Earlier this Sunday, Sen. Kamala Harris posted Happy Father’s Day greetings to her husband, Douglas Emhoff. “Happy Father’s Day, @douglasemhoff. You are a terrific husband and wonderful father to Ella and Cole. I can’t wait to celebrate tonight with steak and homemade fries.” She wrote.
Happy Father’s Day, @douglasemhoff. You are a terrific husband and wonderful father to Ella and Cole. I can’t wait to celebrate tonight with steak and homemade fries. pic.twitter.com/cQSS6eggxg
President Trump slammed 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Kamala Harris after she said she would direct her Department of Justice to prosecute him for obstruction of justice should she win the White House.
As previously reported, the California senator said in a Wednesday podcast interview that she would direct the Justice Department under her administration to prosecute President Trump for obstruction of justice charges, clamming that they would “have no choice” but to do so if she won the White House.
During the same day, during an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the President was asked about Harris’ comments.
In response, Trump tore into the 2020 Democratic primary candidate, proclaiming that she said what she did because “she’s running for president” and pointing out that “she’s way down in the polls.”
“Oh, give me a break. She’s running for president,” President Trump said. “She’s doing horribly. She’s way down in the polls.”
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump reacts to Kamala Harris' statement that she'd "have no choice" but to pursue criminal charges against him if elected.
He went on to point out that one of Harris’ 2020 competitors, Sen. Elizabeth Warren — whom he referred to as “Pocahontas” in the interview — was “really cleaning her clock.”
The 2020 Democratic primary race continues to heat up as the first debate closes in at the end of the month.
Reports say that a new poll released on Thursday put Harris in fourth place among Democratic primary voters in her home state of California.
Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former Vice President Joe Biden all placed ahead of her in the poll, with Biden leading the pack at 22 percent.
Just last month, Harris announced her plan to close the wage gap between men and women in America, but a report by the Washington Free Beacon showed that women in her Senate office get paid 94 cents for every dollar a man in her office makes.
Senator Kamala Harris may have wanted to check her own office books before announcing her strict plan to end the “wage gap” if she wins in 2020.
As reported on Monday, Senator Harris announced her strict plan that aims to close the wage gap in America. The senator’s presidential proposal will require businesses to provide their payroll to the federal government. Employees in the same position must be paid the same unless the company can prove significant differences in merit or seniority.
If companies can’t meet the threshold of justification for their wage differences, they will face massive fines — a point Senator Harris bragged about many times.
I have a simple message for corporations: Pay women fairly or pay the price.https://t.co/5WZL14MLq0
“I am going to announce the first-ever national priority on closing that pay gap and holding corporations accountable for transparency and closing that gap,” Harris claimed on Sunday. “You will see the announcement tomorrow and there will be penalties if they don’t.”
Penalties outlined by Senator Harris’ team include a fine of 1% of the company’s profits for every 1% of a “wage gap” that exists.
Senator Harris’ plan would force companies to reveal the “total pay and total compensation gap that exists between men and women, regardless of job titles, experience, and performance.”
Unfortunately for women in Senatot Harris’ office, the total compensation gap for her staff is 94% on the dollar. As the Washington Free Beacon reported, the median male salary disbursement was $34,999 and the median female salary disbursement was $32,999.
That compensation gap is even more pronounced on Senator Harris’ presidential campaign. Using her financial documents from her first month on the campaign trail, the Beacon found that women were paid only 87% for the dollar earned by a man. By the second month of the campaign, the gap had shrunk, but there was still a five cent disparity.
For Senator Harris, these findings don’t guarantee that she is underpaying her female employees. This disparity only covers the earnings gap as a whole, not a particular position’s wage gap.
However, in her own messaging on the policy, she used data regarding the earnings gap, not the wage gap.The earnings gap is actually 20 percent but the adjusted wage gap is only 2 cents.
In America today, women are paid 80 cents on the dollar. It is an outrage and has to change. Tomorrow, I will announce a plan to close the pay gap and hold corporations accountable. There will be penalties if they don’t. pic.twitter.com/TI5MDCRsNL
Under Hariss’ own policy, she would have to report the 5-13 cent earnings gap in her office and campaign to the federal government and justify individual pay disparities by providing proof of seniority or merit.
Kamala Harris went on the friendly confines of CNN to promote her book and her soon to be announced presidential run and she choked when confronted with her shady past.
CNN host Jake Tapper, who actually did his job for a change, pressed Kamala as she tries to squirm and do the DC two-step but no one believes her denials.
CNN’s Tapper pressed the Democrat presidential hopeful on Wednesday over a recent report that indicated she didn’t know about a harassment settlement involving one of her top advisers.
Sen. Harris, who responded by hinting that her office was too big to notice, did not apologize for her lack of leadership over what happened as she suggested that she was a victim of the whole ordeal, clamming that it was a “very painful experience” for her.
“You were a leader of the #MeToo movement, you were very vocal on the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh,” Tapper said. “An unfortunate thing happened on your staff, which is one of your top aides had to resign a few weeks ago, Larry Wallace.”
“Right,” Sen. Harris nodded in agreement.
Host Tapper also noted that Wallace helped Harris run the California Department of Justice when she was the Attorney General.
“As somebody who is a leader of the #MeToo movement, how did this happen and you didn’t know about it?” The host asked. “And what did you learn about it given that it kind of struck close to home?”
But some expressed skepticism that Sen. Harris had no clue of the harassment caused by Wallace. GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote in a tweet that the senator was either “lying or grossly incompetent.” As Fox news reported.
“No one is buying Kamala Harris’s claim she didn’t know her top aide of 14 yrs was accused of sexual harassment, resulting in a $400K settlement,” she wrote.
As the report said, an intake form from the Equal Employment Rights and Resolution Office, which administers the issues concerning discrimination at the state DOJ, reveals that the department had been alerted on Oct. 3, 2016 that Hartley will pursue legal action.
Also, Hartley had already requested the right to sue from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, as reported by the Bee. Her complaint, filed a month earlier, detailed the allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation – naming Wallace and “those who worked for him” as the culprit.
Democratic presidential primary candidate and Senator Kamala Harris told CNN that she would be “opposed to any policy” that would deny health care under Medicare-for-All to any resident, legally here or not.
While giving an interview on Sunday with Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” Kamala Harris was pressed to speak about would she support a Medicare-for-All proposal that would extend coverage to “any resident,” including illegal immigrants in the U.S. Medicare-for-All is a program championed by her primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Kamala Harris responded by stating that she was “opposed to any policy” that would prevent a person in America — here legally or not — from using taxpayer-funded public health care.
“Let me just be very clear about this: I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health. Period.” said Harris.
Harris’s comments expand on her previous backing of Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All proposal.
As previously reported, Harris declared her full backing of Medicare-for-All, clamming that health care in the U.S. was a “right,” not a “privilege.”
“What we know is that to live in a civil society, to be true to the ideals and the spirit of who we say we are as a country, we have to appreciate and understand that access to health care is a — should not be thought of as a privilege. It should be understood to be a right.” Harris said.
After she announced her backing of the plan, Dr. Marc Siegel spoke out against the proposal, criticizing it as a plan that could take “a wrecking ball to private insurance” and clamming that access to care would be worse under Medicare-for-All.
Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris called for three radical policy positions during a CNN-hosted town hall event on Monday in New Hampshire.
First, Sen. Harris vowed to use executive action to implement her sought-after gun control schemes.
“Upon being elected I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws. And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action,” she said when asked how she will go about keeping America’s schools safe.
“And specifically what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year, they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns. I will require that for any gun dealer that breaks the law the ATF take their license.”
A ton of evidence suggest that additional gun laws wouldn’t stop school shootings. Empowering teachers and school security officials with weapons of their own might, on the other hand.
Second, the California senator shared her support for a proposal to lower the voting age to 16. According to science, the human brain doesn’t stop developing until the age of 25. which means that someone who believes in science might reasonably argue that the voting age should be raised to 25, instead of being lowered.
“I think that there is no question that, if we are looking at what is going on in our country, we’re putting more responsibilities on people at a younger age, and the larger number of people we can involve in the electoral process, I think the more robust it would be,” she said Monday.
“I think one of the downsides of the way our system is currently constructed … is that if people don’t vote or they don’t write checks, they don’t get heard. And I believe strongly that you can judge a society based on how it treats it children.”
“And you can look at what we are not doing for our students, for our teenagers and for even younger, and I believe that if they had greater political power, maybe we would get our act together a little bit better than we’ve been doing.” she added.
Last and not least, the California senator stated that it’s an opportune time for America to have a conversation about allowing convicts to vote in America’s elections.
She issued the statement when asked by host Don Lemon about fellow presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposal to let everybody vote, including even the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose actions killed three people and injured 280 others back in 2013.
“Senator Bernie Sanders said earlier he’s in favor of felons being able to vote while serving in prison. He was asked specifically about people like the Boston Marathon bomber and also people convicted of sexual assault.” said Lemon.
“He said, ‘the right to vote is inherent to our democracy, even for terrible people.’ Do you agree?” Lemon asked.
“I agree the right to vote is one of the key components of citizenship, and it is something people should not be stripped of needlessly,” Kamala Harris replied.
“But, people who are convicted, like the Boston Bomber. They should be able to vote?” Lemon pressed.
“I think we should have that conversation,” she replied. Watch it on the video bellow.
While Sen. Harris’ answer was appalling, Sanders’ own statements were demonstrably worse.
When asked by a crowd member during a CNN town hall event on Monday about whether “those convicted of sexual assault should have the opportunity to vote,” the senator essentially said yes.
“If somebody commits a serious crime, sexual assault, murder, they’re going to be punished,” he initially replied. “They may be in jail 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole life. That’s what happens when you commit a serious crime.”
“But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away … you’re running down a slippery slope … I believe even if they are in jail, they’re paying the price to society, that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
When host Chris Cuomo asked specifically about the Boston Marathon bomber being allowed to vote from prison, Sanders said, “Look, this is what I believe. Do you believe in Democracy?”
“Do you believe that every single American 18 years of age or older who is an American citizen has the right to vote. Once you start chipping away at that, believe me that’s what our Republican governors all over this country are doing.”
The Democrat-produced idea of Republican legislators engaging in “voter suppression” is a lie designed to smear the GOP’s justified efforts to root out election fraud.
Many conservatives were outraged about Bernie Sanders’ proposal. His radical idea was torched on social media moments after he shared it with the public.
“Bernie proves he is clueless, I agree the right to vote should he a fundamental right and liberty. However if a violent offender deprives someone of their liberty and rights they should clearly forfeit theirs as punishment.” said a tweet.
If you had any doubt about how radical the Democrat Party has become, their 2020 frontrunner wants to let terrorists convicted of murdering American citizens vote from prison.
“Excuse me, Bernie but Boston Marathon bombers took away the right to vote from all the people they murdered that day. Still, you think the jailed brother should still be allowed to vote. You have lost all sense of civility and humanity in your desire to obtain votes from anyone.” wrote a tweet.
On Thursday, California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris said she owns a gun for “personal safety” and added that she wants to protect the Second Amendment after leading efforts to ban assault weapons.
Business Insider reported that Kamala Harris told this to reporters after she attended a party with supporters in Des Moines, Iowa.
“I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety,” she said. “I was a career prosecutor.”
The 2020 election candidate also stated that she believes she can solve gun control issues, mentioning a lack of leadership.
“We are being offered a false choice,” Harris continued. “You’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away. It’s a false choice that is born out of a lack of courage from leaders who must recognize and agree that there are some practical solutions to what is a clear problem in our country.”
Senator Kamala Harris was the attorney general of California 2011-2017 before being elected as a Senate member. Now, she hopes to take on President Trump in the 2020 election, but will have to get through a crowded Democratic primary first.
The California Democrat has previously stated that our country needs a president who knows how to prosecute Donald Trump, citing her former job as state attorney general.
It sure looks like Senator Harris hides behind guns, walls and privilege every day, but want’s to deny them to ordinary American citizen.
