Sen. Kamala Harris suggested that Twitter should suspend President Trump’s account after a firestorm of tweets in which he criticized the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint led to an impeachment inquiry against him.
“The president’s tweets and his behaviors about this are just further evidence of the fact that he uses his power in a way that is designed to beat people down instead of lift people up,” Harris said to Anderson Cooper during a Monday interview. “His Twitter account should be suspended,” she said. “There is plenty of evidence to suggest that he is irresponsible with his words in a way that could result in harm to other people … the privilege of using those words in that way should probably be taken from him.”
The California Democrat has also leaned on her past as a state prosecutor and attorney general to present herself as a formidable opponent to Trump in 2020. “As a former prosecutor, I will tell you that my entire career has been fighting for justice and Donald Trump has clearly thought of himself — as soon as he told us he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it — as someone who thinks he is above the law,” Harris said during a Nevada campaign stop last week.
Harris supported impeachment of the president, even before the recent whistleblower complaint about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president in July. “I do support proceeding with a process toward impeachment because, listen, I have seen people go to prison for far less than the evidence we have right now in terms of this president,” she said in August.
