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Kamala isn't going to be able to swallow her way out of this one.

'When Kamala Harris was put in charge in past jobs, scandal and failure
often followed'

'When Kamala Harris was put in charge in past jobs, scandal and failure
often followed'

'Kamala Harris' record as vice president and in California statewide
office show a long history of scandal and management failings that are
certain to draw scrutiny in presidential race.'

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'efore she was Joe Biden’s understudy the last four years, Kamala Harris
ran offices as a California prosecutor and senator. Often, scandal and
failings followed in her wake.

As California Attorney General, Harris was widely criticized for failing
to take on prosecutorial misconduct. In fact her office was “called out”
by judges for “defending convictions obtained by local prosecutors” who
had inserted false confessions, lied under oath, and withheld evidence.
A federal appeals judge even admonished officials in 2015 to talk to
Harris "and make sure she understands the gravity of the situation"
involving prosecutorial misconduct.

Likewise, Harris’ top deputy was accused of sexually harassing a staffer
while working for Harris at the California Department of Justice,
costing the state $400,000 to settle the case.

Now, as vice president, not only has Harris’ office been plagued by
staff issues, but the vice president is scrutinized for her role as
"Border Czar" leading the Biden administration’s efforts to solve the
border crisis. Early in their term, Biden designated Harris to address
the migration challenges at the border after he initially rolled back
several of his predecessor’s initiatives.

Harris came under fire after she failed to visit the border for months
after she was given the assignment. By the time she finally showed up in
El Paso, untold tens of thousands had illegally crossed into the United
States, many of them violent criminals and gang members.

“Serving as our nation’s Border Czar, VP Harris has overseen the worst,
unmitigated border security crisis in our lifetime. The data is
irrefutable," Mark Morgan, former Commissioner of Customs Border
Protection under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, told Just the
News.

"She fully supported the dismantling of the network of tools,
authorities, and polices we had in place under the Trump Administration
that had led to the most secure border in our lifetime and has
repeatedly lied to the American people regarding the government’s loss
of operational control of our own borders,” Morgan continued.

“Under her reign, more Americans have died from fentanyl pouring across
the border; more potential national security threats and criminals have
attempted to exploit our open order policies; and more illegal aliens
have been encountered during her tenure, than any other time in our
nation’s history. Her performance has negatively impacted every aspect
of our country’s safety and national security and can only be described
as - complete failure,” he added.

In fact, NewsNation reported Monday that Harris failed to speak with the
new Border Patrol Chief after he assumed the office last year. Earlier
in the year, former Chief Raul Ruiz said he also never heard from Biden
or Harris during his tenure. "I’ve never had one conversation with the
president or the vice president for that matter. I was chief of the
Border Patrol. I commanded 21,000 people. That’s a problem," Ortiz said
on 60 Minutes.

At the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, Harris famously
visited Central America and called on immigrants not to make the journey
to the United States. “At the same time, I want to be clear to folks in
this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the
United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come,” Harris said at
the time.

However, little progress was made following the visit. Indeed, the
opposite happened—millions of illegals immigrants continued to enter the
United States throughout the last three and a half years . The Federal
Reserve estimates that 3.8 million new illegal aliens could enter the
country in 2024 alone, if current crossing rates continue.

The Kamala Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from
Just the News.

“You know, with Kamala Harris, you know, what has she done as borders
are? What has she done? Nothing. And I think the her record speaks for
itself,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told the John Solomon Reports
podcast on Monday.

Harris’ prior public service in California reveals a pattern of scandal
and failures that will come to the forefront if Harris replaces
President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. Biden announced
his decision to drop out of the race over the weekend and endorsed
Harris to replace him on social media platform X.

During her term as California Attorney General, Harris was rebuked by
judges after her office attempted to defend a conviction obtained by
local prosecutors, who had inserted a false confession in a 1995 murder
case. The defendant, a housekeeper for the murdered couple, was charged
but never confessed.

When the defendant appealed the conviction on the grounds that
prosecutors presented false evidence, Harris’ state office challenged
the appeal to uphold the conviction, which earned a rebuke from the
judge. The judge criticized Harris by asking her deputy, Kevin Vienna,
if her office wanted to defend the conviction “obtained by lying
prosecutors,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

In December 2018, during Harris' first term as a U.S. senator from
California, one of her long-time staff members resigned after the
Sacramento Bee inquired with Harris' office about a $400,000 sexual
harassment settlement dating from her tenure as attorney general. Larry
Wallace, who was the director of the Division of Law Enforcement under
Harris in California, joined her senate office after she was elected.

Harris claimed in a media statement at the time that she was unaware of
Wallace’s behavior, but the incident’s timing was awkward for the
senator—at the height of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.
She was part of a prominent group of female senators who called on
Senator Al Franken to resign after he was embroiled in an harassment
scandal. She had separately introduced a bill that year to ban forced
nondisclosure agreements in harassment lawsuits.

Before she became the California attorney general, Harris served for two
terms as San Francisco district attorney. While in this role, one single
error—failing to check the background of a lab technician—impacted 1,700
cases. But, when faced with scrutiny over the incident, Harris tried to
distance herself from the blowback and let her staff take the hit.

In 2010, a judge admonished then-District Attorney Harris’ office for
violating the rights of defendants when it failed to notify them of a
police drug technician who admitted to skimming cocaine from the
evidence stash at her laboratory. The judge said the failure of Harris’
office to notify the defendants of this information violated a
“constitutional duty.” After the technician's illegal behavior was
identified, prosecutors were forced to drop more than 600 drug cases,
according to SFGATE.

Again, Harris tried distancing herself from the error. Speaking to the
press, Harris said at the time that “contrary to public perception, I
don’t run the crime lab.” Her efforts to distance herself from the
scandal were not successful, however, because she admitted that her
office failed to conduct a background check on the technician, instead
relying on police to be forthcoming with that information. A background
check would have revealed the technician’s previous conviction in a
domestic violence case, information the prosecutors would
constitutionally have to provide a defendant.

Neither were Harris’ campaigns free from scandal. When she first ran for
San Francisco district attorney in 2003, an ethics board found she
violated campaign finance laws, resulting in one of the largest fines in
city history, according to SFGATE. Harris broke the voluntary $211,000
spending cap after she pledged to the voters that she would honor the
limit.

The city’s ethics commission ultimately found that Harris committed the
violation and fined her campaign $34,000, though they ruled that it
appeared to be unintentional. Harris took full responsibility for the
“mistakes” and promised to take responsibility. Her opponents, however,
had a hard time believing the violations were not intentional and
criticized her for being “sloppy.”

Later, in 2006, Harris came under scrutiny during her campaign for
attorney general after she refused to return donations from a disgraced
fundraiser after she accused her Republican opponent of something
similar. Harris accepted, and kept, donations from Norman Hsu, a
Democratic fundraiser and fugitive of 15 years for grand theft auto
charges. Hsu had also contributed to other Democratic candidates,
including Hillary Clinton, who promptly returned the funds.

In 2019, Harris accepted donations from the firm that defended Jeffrey
Epstein a decade prior in his Florida sexual abuse case. Senator Harris,
who was then running for president, had criticized the firm’s work on
the same day saying their work on the case called "into question the
integrity of our legal system."

The failings have followed the senator to the vice presidency. In
addition to a struggle to address the border crisis, reports emerged
after Harris became Joe Biden’s vice president that her office was
dysfunctional and suffered from poor communications, Politico reported
in June of 2021, only about six months after her term began.

“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short
fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said one person with direct
knowledge of how Harris’ office is run, according to Politico. “It’s not
a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place
where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like
s—.”

The reported dysfunction points to a larger issue about Harris’ offices
over her 18 years in public service—the high turnover rate. According to
Washington, D.C.-based conservative watchdog Open the Books, Harris had
a 92% turnover rate in her first three years as vice president.

“In the most recent publishing through March 31, only four of the
original 47 staff listed in a 2021 government report remained
consistently employed and are among the office’s 50 current staff
members,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski wrote in a post to
Substack based on his organization’s findings.

The instability of Harris’ vice presidential office was reportedly a
factor considered by Biden and his advisors as they prepared for the
president to potentially drop his reelection bid. Her office management
style was reportedly part of a tense relationship between her office and
the West Wing, Axios reported.'