Jeff Clark, former acting assistant attorney general during the Trump administration, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been “radio silent” since he has challenged the campaign to release a single transcript of any case the vice president had allegedly argued while serving in her past prosecutorial roles in California.
Last month, Clark completed a comprehensive search into Harris’ background as a prosecutor, which failed to produce evidence that the vice president had ever led the prosecution of a single case at the local or state level.
Clark could not find evidence that Harris had ever ‘first-chaired’ a trial at any point in her career as the district attorney of San Francisco, attorney general of California, and as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County.
Clark said he was compelled to look into Harris’ background because she frequently refers to her prosecutorial experience as one of her strong qualifications for president.
“She put a lot of force behind the idea that she’s a no-nonsense, tough-on-crime prosecutor. Then she set up the context of a comparison between her and Donald Trump to say he is the ‘prosecuted’ and she is the ‘prosecutor.’ So if you’re going to make that kind of claim, then people should be checking you out,” Clark explained on Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Clark said he fully expected to find transcripts of Harris arguing such cases and be “underwhelmed” by her performance, but he ended up coming up empty-handed in his search.
“I began by saying to myself, look, seeing her speeches, seeing her interviews as few and far between as they’ve been before recently, she’s really been making a blitz the last week or so, let me go and try to find one of her trial transcripts and see whether she was really an impressive trial lawyer or not,” Clark said.
“I fully expected that I’d be able to find such a transcript; what I thought was I’d probably be underwhelmed by what I saw on the printed page. But when I started looking, I quickly ran into the fact that I can’t find such a transcript,” Clark added.
Clark said he has since demanded the Harris campaign release a transcript proving Harris’ alleged “strong” prosecutorial record on multiple occasions, a request the campaign has since refused to entertain.
“I’ve directly challenged her and the campaign for weeks and weeks by tagging them over the course of the last two weeks to show us a transcript so that not just me, but other lawyers can read it and critique it. There’s been just radio silence on that. No answer to it,” Clark said.
“No one has come back with anything,” Clark added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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