Rapper Lil Pump has endorsed former President Donald Trump and bashed Kamala Harris. Taking to X account, he noted that Harris locked up over 1,500 people for weed-related crimes and laughed about it several years later. He also labeled Harris as “the worst VP in American history.”
Kamala Harris isn’t even black… she’s Indian. She locked up over 1,500 people for weed related crimes and then laughed about it years later. The worst VP in American History.
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— Lil Pump (@lilpump) July 28, 2024
President Joe Biden made major inroads with criminal justice advocates and stoners alike and he had pardoned thousands of people with federal marijuana possession convictions. Right by his side was Vice-President Kamala Harris, who publicly touted the move as a “step forward.”
“Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed,” said Harris during her appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
But like with almost anything Harris does, conservative media personalities were quick to call the Vice President a hypocrite, citing her record of prosecuting people for marijuana convictions as Attorney General of California.
It is noted that attacks on Harris’ record as a prosecutor are nothing new. On the 2020 Presidential debate stage, former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard ripped into Harris during a conversation on racism. “She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations,” said Gabbard. “And then laughed about it when she asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
To set the record straight, Harris did not laugh about detaining people for marijuana convictions. She laughed on the Breakfast Club radio show when asked if she’d smoked marijuana. But it is fair to talk about Harris’ complex relationship with marijuana.
As a senator, Harris endorsed marijuana decriminalization and eventually legalization. She signed Senator Cory Booker’s marijuana legalization bill in 2017, and she also introduced her own bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
However, as an attorney general, her record is much more complicated. Harris oversaw roughly 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for “marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale,” according to Reuters.
