Since replacing President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee for president in July, Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly touted her record as a prosecutor and has said she'd "make the case" against former President Donald Trump.
In fact, it was part of her nomination acceptance speech at the DNC in Chicago.
"As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged it not in the name of the victim, but in the name of the people, for a simple reason. In our system of justice, a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. And I would often explain this to console survivors of crime, to remind them: No one should be made to fight alone. We are all in this together," Harris declared from the stage. "And every day, in the courtroom, I stood proudly before a judge and I said five words: Kamala Harris, for the people. And to be clear — and to be clear, my entire career, I’ve only had one client: the people."
I have fought for the people for my entire career.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 22, 2024
As a young courtroom prosecutor in Oakland, I stood up for women and children against predators who abused them.
As district attorney of San Francisco, I helped make California the first state to ban the “gay/trans panic”… pic.twitter.com/x166Ggd6oO
My entire career, I have only had one client: The people.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 20, 2024
As a young courtroom prosecutor in Oakland, I stood up for women and children against predators.
As attorney general of California, I prosecuted transnational gangs and big banks, and delivered $20 billion for… pic.twitter.com/dMmHjjD3Ty
But it turns out Harris wasn't much of a prosecutor at all and grossly exaggerated her record.
"Vice President Kamala Harris exaggerated her trial experience when she first ran for San Francisco district attorney just over two decades ago, greatly overstating the number of felony cases she prosecuted in order to bolster her image as the tough-but-fair prosecutor San Franciscans needed to set the city straight," National Review reports. "Harris's overstatements about her prosecutorial record, central to her pitch as a candidate who would clean up inner-city crime, became a point of attack throughout the campaign from opponents who questioned her level of experience."
In fact, Harris used to tout "hundreds" of cases. Reality tells a much different story.
Kamala Harris is a fraud.
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) October 23, 2024
As the NRO article shows, she claimed she prosecuted hundreds of cases, then dialed that back to 50, then dialed that back to “under 30.”
The reality is that she did no more than 10 cases. And if you credit her boss, Hallinan, she did only one case in… https://t.co/1wgGf482l8 pic.twitter.com/GhSgSjLAXJ