WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris spent part of a Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” recalling how she discovered former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts in his criminal trial for hiding the money.
She deflected a light-hearted question from Kimmel about whether the people she watched the verdict with were “pretending to not be happy” when the conviction was announced. Instead, she spoke of the six-week deliberations and the 12-person jury, before adding “the reality is that cheaters don’t like to get caught.”
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was convicted on all charges related to a scheme during his 2016 presidential campaign to bribe porn star Stormy Daniels, who said the two had sex. The former president classified the verdict as politically motivated and blamed Biden – while also seeking to become a political martyr in the eyes of supporters, suggesting that if this could happen to him, similar things could happen to them.
Harris’ comments came a day after President Joe Biden attacked his predecessor and likely opponent in the November election for sowing doubt in the judicial process,
“It’s reckless, dangerous and completely irresponsible for anyone to say it’s rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said at a fundraiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Monday night.
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