Rapper Lil Pump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, calling her the “worst vice president in American history.”
in post On his X Channel, the rapper posted a photo of himself with former President Donald Trump and criticized Governor Harris for “incarcerating over 1,500 people for marijuana-related crimes.”
“Kamala Harris isn’t even black…she’s Indian,” the rapper wrote. “She jailed over 1,500 people for marijuana related crimes and laughed about it a few years later. Worst VP in American history. Trump in 2024.”
Kamala Harris isn’t even black…she’s Indian. She jailed over 1500 people for marijuana related crimes and then laughed about it a few years later. She is the worst vice president in American history.
Trump 2024 pic.twitter.com/UZZIg4KkxG
— Lil Pump (@lilpump) July 28, 2024
The rapper’s comments were a nod to Harris’ time as San Francisco’s district attorney, during which she oversaw nearly 2,000 marijuana-related convictions, according to data obtained by the Bay Area news group Mercury News. report 2019.
According to previously unreleased records from the District Attorney’s Office, Harris has overseen more than 1,900 marijuana convictions in San Francisco, and based on data on marijuana arrests in the city, Harris’ prosecutors appear to have had a higher rate of marijuana convictions than their predecessors.
But former lawyers in Harris’ office and other drug lawyers say most defendants arrested for low-level marijuana possession never served time in prison, and only a few dozen people were sent to state prison for marijuana convictions during Harris’ tenure.
During a February 2019 interview, Harris admitted and laughed that she smoked marijuana in college.
Harris was later criticized during a July 2019 Democratic primary debate by former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-Hawaii), who said she was “deeply concerned” about Harris’ record as a prosecutor and her “incarceration of over 1,500 people for marijuana offenses.”
Gabbard’s comments were in reference to a Washington Free Beacon article that cited data from Harris’ time as California’s attorney general, which found that “at least 1,560 people were sent to state prison for marijuana-related offenses between 2011 and 2016.”
A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation explanation To San Francisco Chronicle The number was approximately 1,974.
The Mercury News explained that Gabbard “misleadingly cited California’s statewide figures while Harris was attorney general.”
This isn’t the rapper’s first support for Trump: In January, he revealed he got a thigh tattoo to honor “the greatest president of all time.” The tattoo appeared to be a mug shot of Trump’s mugshot from his August 2023 arrest.
The rapper also endorsed Trump on Instagram in October 2020, criticizing President Joe Biden’s proposed tax increases. Trump also invited the rapper onstage at his final rally of 2020 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
