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Even as she displays on final 12 months’s marketing campaign in touring for her new book, Kamala Harris has been weaving in critiques of President Donald Trump’s second time period that got here out of her loss – and FBI Director James Comey’s indictment was an excessive amount of to ignore.
“It’s frustrating, but more than that, it’s painful to see,” Harris mentioned, talking solely to NCS on Friday afternoon throughout a break in the Washington swing of her tour, when requested what she manufactured from Trump’s time period up to now. “It’s painful to see. I mean what’s happening with Comey: Are you fucking kidding me? The United States Department of Justice?”
Before being elected to the Senate in 2016, the former vp spent her professional life as a prosecutor, together with her time as San Francisco district lawyer and California lawyer normal, and problems with the regulation hit onerous for her.
Harris warned throughout the marketing campaign that Trump would go after people he thought-about his political enemies. The Justice Department bringing costs towards Comey got here after Trump publicly pressured Attorney General Pam Bondi and replaced the US attorney for the district the place Comey was indicted.
“He said it; we knew he would do it,” Harris mentioned. “But it is every day unrelenting.”
Harris mentioned she had seen the Truth Social publish from final week addressed to “Pam,” as in Bondi, demanding the prosecution, and had heard the hypothesis that it may need been meant as a direct message to the lawyer normal.
Either means, Harris informed NCS, Trump’s intent appeared clear, and which means a president who has ordered the prosecution of a particular person towards whom he has lengthy sought vengeance.
Asked whether or not she sees the indictment as the crossing of a Rubicon, or a boundary, Harris mentioned, “I don’t know. Define Rubicon.”