Kamala Harris is hawking her new e-book, 107 Days, and so, she sat down with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC final evening. Harris had a lot to say about Donald Trump and the way he’s a “tyrant,” however Trump wasn’t the one determine that drew Harris’s hearth.
Harris turned her consideration to non-public corporations for not holding the road vis-à-vis Trump. “I’ve labored intently with the personal sector over a few years. And I all the time believed that if push got here to shove, these titans of trade could be guardrails for our democracy, for the significance of sustaining democratic establishments. And one after the other by one, they’ve been silent. They’ve been, you understand, sure, I take advantage of the phrase feckless,” Harris mentioned.
Harris additionally identified that this lack of braveness is motivated by the underside line. “Maybe it’s as a result of they need a merger permitted or they wish to keep away from an investigation. However sooner or later they’ve obtained to face up for the sake of the individuals who depend on all of those establishments — to have integrity and to, sooner or later, be the guardrails towards a tyrant who’s utilizing the federal authorities to execute his whim and fancy due to a fragile ego.”
Daring phrases. However…
I simply have one query: Does she know the place her husband works?
Pay attention, I’m certain the final 12 months or so has been hella loopy for Harris and possibly she simply isn’t monitoring the place her husband is at present working towards legislation. If she *does* know, this complete interview is giving large do as I say, not as my husband does power.
As a result of for many who don’t know and/or care, after his stint as Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff selected to return to Biglaw and is at present a associate at Willkie Farr. You understand, one of many 9 “feckless” Biglaw companies that bent a knee to Donald Trump — and promised $940 million in professional bono payola — to keep away from the unconstitutional Government Orders concentrating on main legislation companies that pissed off Donald Trump.
So sure, fairly just like the “titans of trade” which can be imagined to be “guardrails for our democracy” the legislation agency the place Emhoff is a associate did the Precise. Similar. Factor. It’s really worse, as a result of Willkie is giving Donald Trump $100 million is free authorized companies for Trump-approved causes and shoppers.
This isn’t so simple as holding a lady accountable for what her husband does, as some Harris apologists may opine. There’s a direct monetary profit that Kamala Harris’s family receives when Willkie Farr does effectively — and that agency bought out the rule of legislation as a way to be sure that their backside line didn’t take a success.
And I don’t assume Harris’s feedback go the blush take a look at simply because Emhoff was publicly vital of Willkie’s take care of Trump. As a result of HE SILL WORKS THERE! As a associate, no much less! Associates (and naturally, companions too) are bailing from Willkie to get the stink of capitulation off their profession. Emhoff — each as an skilled associate and as a family identify — has vastly extra alternatives than junior attorneys but he chooses to remain at Willkie. And that claims much more about who’s — and who just isn’t — really prepared to combat for democracy than the MSNBC clip.
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