Trump says Harris isn’t ‘tough on crime,’ only ‘guys like me’

Former President Donald Trump tore into Vice President Kamala Harris‘s track record on crime, claiming the former prosecutor is only “tough on guys like” him because she is his 2024 opponent.

Trump traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for his first rally in the state since the attempt on his life in Butler earlier this month.

Harris has taken to propping up her record as a prosecutor and attorney general of California to contrast herself with Trump, who was found guilty in Manhattan court of 34 counts of business fraud in May.

“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said during a rally last week in Wisconsin. “So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”

Like in recent visits, the former president opened his rally with a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed in Butler by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crookes, before tearing into Harris.

“She’s a defund the police radical trying to pass herself off as a tough-on-crime prosecutor,” Trump said of Harris. “She wasn’t tough on crime. She’s only tough on guys like me because they want to go after their political opponents.”

The narrative that the Biden administration and its allies are prosecuting Trump to keep him out of the White House has been a centerpiece of his reelection bid.

“They’re just weak on crime. They don’t mind if somebody murders somebody,” Trump continued. “You can kill somebody now. Our country is sick. The mindset of our country is sick, and we’re not going to let her do to Pennsylvania what she did to California.”

Despite Harris’s recent campaign tactics, her record in law enforcement hurt her during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, with progressives questioning her commitment to criminal justice reform.

Harris also flirted with the “defund the police” movement and supported ending cash bail during the 2020 blowback to the death of George Floyd, which also cost her with moderate Democrats who gravitated to President Joe Biden during her previous White House bid.