By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on August 11, 2024
An Editorial Opinion
My group of independent voter influencers has completed the vetting process on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
On July 28, 2024, we published our report on Trump.
On August 5, 2024, Kamala Harris was certified as the Democratic nominee after a virtual roll call vote of convention delegates. As such, it is appropriate to publish the vetting report on Harris at this time.
This article constitutes our vetting report on Kamala Harris. It examines the actions she has taken as Vice President, as a former San Francisco state prosecutor, and as a former California Attorney General.
As Vice President, Harris shares in the responsibility for actions taken by President Joe Biden. In fact, Biden has publicly stated that Harris agreed with him in the executive actions referenced in this report.
For our group to support Kamala Harris, we have to overlook the following things:
America’s direct and active support of Israel's ongoing campaign of genocide against 39,000 innocent Palestinians infants, children, women, and men in Gaza since October 7, 2023. There is no justification for this genocide. The Biden-Harris administration has aided and abetted this genocide, and they refuse to stop it. What is worse, the Biden-Harris campaign accepted contributions from individuals and political action committees (PACs) that openly supported and encouraged this genocide.
America’s humiliating withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, including the deaths of 13 service members who were killed at the airport in Kabul and the hundreds of American civilians who were left behind to fend for themselves against the brutal Taliban regime.
The Biden-Harris administration’s so-called “crippling sanctions” against Russian oligarchs, all of which have been ineffective. What is more, the administration's deeply flawed military support plan for Ukraine during the Ukraine-Russia War has cost American taxpayers $175 billion, with no end in sight.
The forced ouster of U.S. troops from Niger in West Africa because of the Biden administration's perpetuation of neo-colonialist policies in the region.
America’s continued support for economic colonialism in Africa and South America.
America’s wide open northern and southern borders. Harris is Biden’s designated border czar. She has failed in this mission. While Harris has said "Do Not Come" to migrants of color crossing the southern border, she has said nothing to the illegal Caucasian migrants streaming into America across our northern border with Canada.
The total and complete failure of the Biden administration to prosecute the Wall Street CEOs and other top executives at First Republic Bank ($229 billion in assets), Silicon Valley Bank ($210 billion in assets), and Signature Bank ($210 billion in assets) after these banks failed in 2023 due to corrupt management practices and gross violations of federal banking laws.
The total and complete failure of the Biden administration to prosecute top executives and board members at The Boeing Company for securing airworthiness certification for Boeing’s defective 737 MAX airplanes under false pretenses. As a result of this criminal activity, 346 passengers and crew members died in two separate 737 MAX crashes. No culpable Boeing executive has ever been prosecuted for the murder of these 346 plane crash victims.
The total and complete failure of the Biden administration to prosecute those executives at other major Wall Street companies who engaged in documented criminal conspiracy and racketeering schemes that included numerous acts of bribery, money laundering, price-fixing, and accounting fraud.
The Biden-Harris campaign's acceptance of money from PACs that were funded by corporate entities that received non-prosecution agreements for both the corporation and its executives from Biden's Department of Justice. This is an ongoing quid pro quo activity within the Biden-Harris administration that has morphed into a Department of Justice policy.
Harris’s complete and total failure to secure enough votes in 2021 for Congressional legislation designed to restore teeth to the Voting Rights Act after Joe Biden made her the designated leader of this initiative. Even though Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives from January 2021 to January 2023, Harris failed to get the job done.
In December 2021, Kamala Harris was tapped by Joe Biden to lead his administration’s new initiative to expand the country’s fleet of electric vehicles (EV), pledging to create an EV-specific office and to issue standards and guidance to states and cities. Despite a hoopla of PR regading this initiative in 2021, not much has happened with respect to implementing this plan. In fact, the EV industry has shunned Harris.
The Biden-Harris administration has taken no steps to remove Social Security benefits from federal income taxation. This action, alone, would financially benefit 5.6 million Americans who deserve access to their full untaxed Social Security award.
An average of the year-over-year inflation rate for all months of the Joe Biden presidency (as of July 2024) is 5.7%. During the Donald Trump presidency, the overall inflation rate was 1.9%.
Harris was part of the White House's long-running coverup of Joe Biden’s deteriorating mental and physical health condition.
Harris has zero foreign policy experience. For instance, Harris’s infamous “Do Not Come” message in 2021 to migrants of color from Central and South American countries was amateurish and plain racist. Harris has never directed a similar ultimatum to Caucasian migrants from Europe who are steaming into America illegally at our northern border.
Harris has zero experience as “Commander-in Chief” on any level of government. She also lacks a working knowledge of the six branches of America's armed forces.
For the right size campaign contribution from well-connected donors, Kamala Harris has turned her head away from serious criminal conduct committed by powerful people. As discussed below, Harris's refusal as the local district attorney to prosecute Catholic priests in San Francisco who were implicated in a widespread child sexual abuse scandal evidences a pattern and practice on Harris's part to look the other way when big campaign donations are directed her way.
Harris is impressed with celebrity status and has a track-record of catering to cabals of celebrities and power-players, even when the call of duty requires her to take official action against their interests.
My legal training causes me to conduct a "preponderance of evidence" analysis on Kamala Harris’s “character and fitness” to serve in public office, as we did on Donald Trump. This analytical approach is more useful to me than simply reviewing an endless stream of political soundbites, memes, tweets, social media posts, and polished campaign ads.
As we did with Donald Trump, we have closely examined Kamala Harris’s personal life. In 1994, Harris, then-29, became the longtime paramour of former California Speaker of the State Assembly and then-San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, who was 60-years-old and married. Harris was single at the time There is no evidence, however, that Harris became a paramour to any other married man before she wedded her current husband.
As a state prosecutor and California Attorney General from 2004 to 2017, Harris never prosecuted a single Catholic Church priest in any documented child sex abuse case, despite having numerous opportunities to do so. Internal Catholic Church records named as many as 40 priests in the San Francisco Archdiocese as sexual abusers of children during Harris’ tenure as a prosecutor.
In exchange for large campaign donations from law firms affiliated with the Catholic Church and its political allies, Harris turned her back on these sexually abused children and gave the abusive priests a prosecutorial "pass." What is more, Harris worked to coverup the records documenting the sexual abuse of children by the priests in question.
As a prosecutor, Harris wrongfully withheld favorable evidence for the accused in an estimated 1,000 drug-related cases. A judge scolded Harris for this monumental violation of the defendants' Constitutional right to a fair trial. As a result of Harris’s prosecutorial misconduct, these cases were dismissed.
Personally, I believe that “character and fitness” still matters for those who seek to serve our nation in the highest public office --the America presidency. Republican and Democratic partisans do not seem to care about “character and fitness” attributes, but we do.
My group of independent voter influencers will decide who to endorse and financially support (up to $75 million in donations to a Super-PAC of the nominee's choice) after Labor Day. Our group’s endorsement and financial support will go to either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.
As of today, no decision has been made regarding which nominee we will support.
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Do you plan on doing a similar analysis on the 2 VP's?
Why Kamala Harris failed to prosecute a single one of the 40 Catholic Church priests who sexually abused children in the San Francisco area while she was district attorney and California Attorney General must be explained to our group of independent voter influencers. There is no question that Catholic Church-aligned donors funneled large sums of money to Harris's political campaigns at the time. Did the campaign money cause Harris to give child molesters a prosecutorial pass on 40 separate occasions or was something else at play?
The Israeli campaign of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza is a serious matter to our group. Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place. The 10 stages of genocide are presented below. The Biden-Harris administration aided and abetted Israel in carrying out stages 9 and 10 of genocide at a time when they could have stopped it.
Independent voters are fewer in number than partisan voters, influential in close national elections, and hard for presidential campaigns to reach. They conduct far more in-depth research on a political candidates than partisan voters. They constantly study the Electoral College map for shifts in the leanings of a state. Independent voters will decide the outcome of the 2024 presidential race. In addition to the vetting reports we have published on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, we also have access to extensive polling data in the six swing states. Our decision on which presidential nominee to support will be an informed one.