One of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be President next January.
The terrain for the General Election is now forming.
And Kamala Harris heard three words about Donald Trump that sent one awful signal.
Democrat Party hypocrisy on display
Kamala Harris held a rally at Temple University to announce radical left Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
But it was something that happened during Harris’ remarks introducing Walz that left everyone talking.
Harris was in the middle of her riff, where she tried to claim being the District Attorney of San Francisco and the Attorney General of California made her tough on crime.
“Now, many of you know, before I was elected Vice President or elected a United States Senator, I was an elected attorney general, and before that, elected district attorney. And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. So in those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris began.
Harris then – again – showed the lawfare brought by Democrats against Donald Trump was politically motivated by incorporating it into her stump speech.
The crowd immediately picked up on what Harris was trying to get done and began to boo.
“Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who scammed consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris added.
But then the crowd interrupted Harris by chanting, “Lock him up! Lock him up!”
Harris didn’t dissuade the chants or admonish the crowd for calling to jail her political opponent.
All Harris did was ask the crowd to “hold on.”
Cackling Kamala smirks as crowd chants “lock him up" to President Trump
It has never been more clear they are trying to jail their political opponent. pic.twitter.com/9UbQwtvgyf
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 6, 2024
What happened in 2016
In 2016, Trump supporters would chant “lock her up” at mentions of Hillary Clinton’s name.
Clinton faced an FBI investigation over the mishandling of classified information on her private email server.
The FBI Director James Comey let Clinton off the hook by rewriting the statute in question.
Critics suspected Comey just wanted to whitewash the criminal allegations against Clinton because Comey figured Clinton was going to win the election, and he didn’t want an issue with the woman he figured was going to be his boss.
Whenever these “lock her up” chants would break out, members of the press would denounce them as a sign of rising authoritarianism among Donald Trump and his supporters.
To the surprise of no one, there wasn’t anyone in the media tut-tutting Harris about her supporters’ desire to see Harris’ political opponent thrown in jail or for Harris not telling the crowd to knock it off.
