US President Donald
Trump donated to Democratic vice president nominee Kamala Harris twice when she
was candidate for California attorney general. Trump, while he was a private
citizen, donated $5,000 in 2011 and $1,000 in 2013, a total 0f $6,000, the
state campaign finance records show.

Democrat candidate
Joe Biden on Tuesday chose Harris as his running mate, reacting to which the US
President said that she is “the meanest, the most horrible, most
disrespectful of anybody in the US Senate.” The 55-year-old Harris is the first
Black woman and the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed as the
vice-president candidate.

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A report by Fox News,
which reviewed court files, said that Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump
donated $5,000 to Harris at the request of former attorney general of New York Eric
Schneiderman.

Trump, in the
affidavit, wrote, “Mr. Schneiderman’s former transition committee leader asked
my daughter Ivanka if she would arrange for me to make a contribution to a
fundraising event sponsored by Mr. Schneiderman for newly elected California
Attorney General Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote in an affidavit.

 “In response, I made a $5,000 contribution to
Ms. Harris’ campaign — the highest level of sponsorship listed in the
invitation — and Ivanka attended the event together with some of Trump Org.’s
other top executives.”

On the donations made
by Trump, his senior advisor Katrina Pierson told PBS Newshour’s Yamiche
Alcindor that the US President, then a private citizen, to a Black woman can ‘squash
this racism argument now.’