In an interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC News' This Week, Charlamagne tha God said on Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris should take a more active and public role in "prosecuting the case in this country" against former President Donald Trump.
"We remember her in those Senate hearings when she was pressing those people—she was prosecuting these people. I want to see her prosecute the case against Donald Trump in this country. I feel like she could go out there and really let the American people know what's going on. I would like to see her going on outlets like Fox News. I'd like to see her going in there and mixing it up," The Breakfast Club radio host said.
The Context:
Although, Charlamagne tha God did not specify what case against Trump he would like Harris to prosecute,Trump, the GOP frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination, is facing four criminal indictments with a total of 91 charges, all of which he maintains his innocence in while calling them part of a political witch hunt.
One of Trump's cases is his election interference case in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Jack Smith has led the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation, accusing Trump of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election that led to the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Trump is facing dozens of felony charges from the DOJ, which has also accused him of unlawfully retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving the White House in 2021 and repeatedly obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
Meanwhile, Harris began her career in criminal justice after completing her law degree at University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She began by working in the Alameda County district attorney's office and prosecuted homicide, robbery and child sexual assault cases before becoming the district attorney for San Francisco. She later ascended to the California attorney general's office, becoming the first Black woman to do so. She led the office from 2011 until she took her seat in the Senate in 2017.
What We Know:
During Sunday's interview, Charlamagne tha God spoke about whether Harris has met his expectations since he endorsed President Joe Biden in 2020 due to Harris being his running mate.
Although Charlamagne tha God said she has not, he advised that it's not too late to pivot in playing a more active role, "For new jack problems, we need new jack solutions. And she serves a unique purpose, right? Because she is the first woman of color in that position. So, there's things that she could talk about. There are things that she could say that I feel like he can't."
While he didn't endorse any specific presidential candidate for the 2024 election, he said he'll tell "you exactly what I'm seeing and what I'm seeing is democracy really on the brink."
Newsweek has reached out to Harris' office via email for comment.
Views:
This is not the first time Harris' previous work as a prosecutor has been brought up in connection with a legal issue pertaining to Trump.
In 2019 during an interview with MSNBC News, Harris repeated her call to impeach then-President Trump as she alluded to her previous work as a prosecutor.
"I do support proceeding with a process toward impeachment because, listen, I've seen people go to prison for far less than the evidence we have right now in terms of this president," she said at the time.
Meanwhile, Trump has taken to Truth Social, his social media platform, to speak out against the legal cases against him, calling them a political witch hunt while claiming Biden has had a role in the cases against him.
What's Next?
The 2024 presidential nominees in November will likely be Biden and Trump. Biden won 96.2 percent of the vote in the South Carolina Democratic primary earlier this month after winning New Hampshire in January as a write-in candidate.
Meanwhile, Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary by 54.4 percent to Haley's 43.3 percent. Both Republican candidates will face off in the South Carolina primary, which is set to take place on February 24.
Update 2/18/24, 2:02 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
Update 2/18/24, 2:35 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
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