Trump live: Kamala Harris breaks silence in first post-election speech with rally against ‘constitutional crisis’
Former vice president Kamala Harris has mercilessly rebuked President Donald Trump in her first extensive remarks since leaving Washington, D.C., in January, calling his tariff-based trade war the “greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history.”
Harris, the defeated Democratic nominee in last year’s presidential election, spoke in San Francisco at the 20th anniversary gala for Emerge America, an organization that supports left-leaning women for public office.
“I know tonight’s event happens to coincide with the 100 days after the inauguration and I’ll leave it to others to give a full accounting of what has happened so far,” Harris said at the Palace Hotel gala.
“But I will say this, instead of an administration working to advance America’s highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals.”
Harris took aim at Trump’s shrinking of the federal workforce and his tariffs, which, “as I predicted, are clearly inviting a recession.”
She also championed protesters who have stood up to the administration’s actions, “saying it is not okay to detain and disappear American citizens or anyone without due process.”
