Recently, an actor who was falsely convicted of murder by then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris spoke out against the vice president in her presidential bid. Jamal Trulove spent roughly six years in California’s prison system after the conviction before eventually being acquitted in 2015 after a retrial of his case.
Trulove announced his intention to vote for former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election, stating, “I can’t see myself voting for a woman who had something to do with me being framed for murder,” he said. The actor also cited “the economy, the border, and inflation” as why he would likely vote Republican in November.
Trulove further explained how life was far better under former President Trump, where there weren’t global conflicts or a massive flood of illegal immigration. “When we look at what our life was like when Trump was in office we felt like life was good compared to right now. We wasn’t in no wars, right now we’re in wars. Illegals wasn’t coming in, but they’re coming in now,” he said.
However, after being pressured by his industry, the actor had previously supported Biden in 2020. “I put my differences aside only because I was being pressured by executives and a lot of my advisors, because I had I had contracts to do my documentary and obviously, I do film, and so forth and so on,” he said, noting he feared of being “blackballed.”
During a recent interview, Trulove recounted Kamala Harris allegedly laughing at him after his conviction. “And I’ll never forget when I turned around and I looked and I seen Kamala Harris, you know, we locked eyes this, this one time, and she and she laughed. She literally just like, kind of bust out laughing, almost as in as she was pointing at her neck. Like, that’s how I felt, though she didn’t point, she didn’t point, but that’s how I felt when she was laughing at the verdict coming down. So, you know, I took it in.”
He claimed that the Black community of San Francisco once thought that Kamala Harris was a blessing as the district attorney. “People in the projects knew who she was because she was a black district attorney, and we thought that we had a black District Attorney in office, right? And who we perceived to be black, right? That will have a that’s from Oakland, and that’s all we, we kind of knew. And we would think that, you know, that she would, you know, be a little bit more favorable to us,” he said.
The American Tribune previously reported on former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard destroying Harris in a 2019 debate on her prosecutorial record. “Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president, but I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana,” Gabbard said.
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She continued, “She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California and she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”
Watch the debate below: