Former President Donald Trump on Friday pointed to some of Vice President Kamala Harris' missteps during her time as San Francisco district attorney, arguing that she and the “communist left” cannot be allowed to do to America what they did to California.
Speaking at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles on Friday, Trump pointed to missteps by Harris during her presidency from 2004 to 2011.
“I come to California today to deliver a very simple message to the American people: We cannot allow Comrade Kamala Harris and the Communist Left to do to America what they did to California,” Trump said, detailing Harris' record as district attorney.
He called her the “godmother of sanctuary cities” and cited two undocumented immigrant killers who were convicted of murder after being arrested for other crimes as minors, but San Francisco's sanctuary city policy prevented the then-minors from being turned over to federal authorities for deportation.
The first case he pointed to was the June 2008 murder of Tony Bologna and his teenage sons, Michael and Matthew, by an illegal immigrant.
“One of the people Kamala gave a sanctuary city and appointed as district attorney was Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member who brutally murdered a father and his two sons after mistaking them for rival gang members,” Trump said.
of San Francisco Chronicle Notes Ramos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, carried out the killings in the Excelsior district. Citing authorities familiar with Ramos' background, the outlet reported at the time that before the June 2008 murders, he had been convicted of “a gang-related assault on a Muni passenger and an attempted robbery of a pregnant woman.”
However, federal authorities were not notified of the crime due to the Department of Juvenile Probation's “policy of not considering immigration status when determining how to respond to offenders.”
“If city officials had investigated, they would have found that Ramos did not have legal status to be in the United States,” the article said.
This interpretation of the policy was eventually overturned, but on July 31, 2008, just one month after Ramos murdered the Bolognas, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, Ronnie Aguilar, murdered a 14-year-old boy named Ivan Miranda.
“She also protected Ronnie Aguilera, an illegal immigrant who murdered a 14-year-old boy and nearly decapitated him with a sword, and he enjoyed watching this happen with the sword,” President Trump said Friday.
According to ChronicleAguilar was on the streets in large part because of a similar interpretation of the city's sanctuary city policy, he said. Chroniclewhich Reviewed After the murder, police tried to look into Aguilar's criminal history, but because he was a minor, it would be a criminal offense, so it was not made public.
Aguilera, who was protected from possible deportation because the city's interpretation of a now-repealed sanctuary ordinance prohibited him from cooperating with federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, is the second person to be charged with murder in San Francisco this year.
Trump said Harris' office Agreed A man who killed his mother with a drug overdose has been given a plea deal that gives him a 12-year prison sentence.
“Kamala cut a sweet deal and gave a monster named David Taylor just 12 years in prison. Taylor got high on crack and killed his 65-year-old mother with a hammer and scissors. He wanted to be released and she wanted to be released as soon as possible,” Trump said.
It was in December 2004 that Taylor was convicted of murdering his mother, Artanese Taylor, in July 2001, after a nine-day crack bender. Chronicle Documented.
According to the outlet, Harris' office was concerned that she might plead guilty to mental illness.
Trump also highlighted Harris' refusal to seek the death penalty for a gang member who killed San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza during a traffic stop in 2004.
Gang member David Hill shot and killed Espinosa, 29, during a traffic stop. New York Post I have taken note.
“Harris, it's only been a few months In her role as District Attorney Three days after the murders, she appeared on television before speaking to grieving families and announcing that she would not seek the death penalty, the outlet reported.
