Vice President Kamala Harris' overmuch older ex-boyfriend Willie Brown believes that President Joe Biden should measurement down arsenic president truthful that she tin return nan job.
Brown said pinch Politico columnist Jonathan Martin, revealing his thoughts astir Harris, whom he dated erstwhile he was 60 and moving for politician of San Francisco and she was a comparatively chartless 29-year-old Alameda County prosecutor.
Brown, now 90, joked that if Harris won nan presidency, 'She’ll deport my a**,' a joke he has agelong made astir his erstwhile woman turned governmental protégé.
Brown expressed his concerns that Harris had 'the Hillary syndrome' and that 'people don't for illustration her,' which he said was an unfixable problem.
He's nan erstwhile California authorities assembly speaker and San Francisco politician who Harris considers to beryllium 1 of her governmental mentors.
Wille Brown and Kamala Harris erstwhile they were making love successful San Francisco
Brown besides revealed that Harris was not erstwhile House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first prime for president and that he worked to make judge his different governmental protoge Gov. Gavin Newsom was afloat down Harris.
Brown confirmed nan communicative of really erstwhile he was making love Kamala Harris successful nan 1990s and participating an arena astatine Harvard, then-business developer Donald Trump flew Brown, Harris and his squad aboard his backstage level for a gathering successful New York.
Harris was not astatine nan meeting, but Brown says he has a image of he and Harris connected Trump's plane.
Brown said that Former President Donald Trump was successful successful authorities because of his celebrity.
'He’s an entertainer, that’s each it is,' he said.
Brown gave Harris a important boost successful her governmental career, arsenic elaborate in Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris successful nan White House.
When they dated, Brown was considered nan astir powerful leader successful California, and though he was still married, he was estranged to his woman Blanche, who lived successful a abstracted location from him.
Willie Brown advised that Joe Biden measurement down and fto Harris presume nan presidency arsenic she runs for president
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris speaks astatine a run rally successful Atlanta, Georgia,
Brown appointed Harris to 2 different authorities boards, which paid her much than $400,000 complete 5 years and gave her nan keys to a BMW. He opened nan doors to nan able and nan powerful group of San Francisco.
Brown collapsed up pinch Harris aft their year-long relationship, but he was ever astir to connection a helping manus during her governmental career.
During her first tally arsenic San Francisco District Attorney, Brown donated to her run and helped raise money for nan race.
Harris famously threw Brown nether nan autobus during her campaign, insisting that her romanticist and governmental relationship pinch nan politician was over.
'Willie Brown is not going to beryllium around. He’s gone—hello people, move on,’ Harris told SF Weekly successful a 2003 mag floor plan insisting she would beryllium ‘independent’ of Brown and that ‘he would astir apt correct now definitive immoderate fright astir nan truth that he cannot power me.’
'His profession is over; I will beryllium live and kicking for nan adjacent 40 years. I do not beryllium him a thing,' she claimed.
It was nan past clip she would speak publically astir her erstwhile person and governmental mentor.
Since Harris was endorsed by Democrats arsenic nan caller statesmanlike nominee, Brown shared his sentiment pinch nan San Francisco Standard astir her abilities to tally and triumph successful elections.
'You tin very easy underestimate Kamala Harris, but if you do you will beryllium looking up from nan dungeon for nan queen will beryllium connected nan throne,' he said.