'Absolute Hell': Trump hits Harris, Dems on California crime in LA press conference

Former President Donald Trump on Friday excoriated Vice President Kamala Harris over her record as a prosecutor in California, pointing to the state's rising crime under Democratic rule to warn that she would bring comparable developments to the nation as president.

Trump made the remarks during a press conference in Los Angeles. He specifically took aim at the Soros-backed District Attorney George Gascon, whom he said "unleashed hell upon the residents of Los Angeles, absolute hell."

He then criticized Harris for supporting Gascon's policies, saying she backed his "decision to stop prosecuting criminals for trespassing, disturbing the peace, making criminal threats, loitering to commit prostitution and resisting arrest."

"This is where she's coming from as president," he warned.

Trump also went after Harris's record as a prosecutor and highlighted her time as the San Francisco district attorney, specifically pointing to instances of lenient plea agreements she offered to criminals.

"Homelessness increased by over 200% while comrade Kamala Harris was attorney general of this state, murders rose significantly," he went on. "Car thefts went through the roof. Gun assaults rose at levels never seen before, and forcible rape went up by much more than the 73% that they reported."

"As Attorney General, she defined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of an unconscious person as non violent crimes. She put them in a new category as non violent now," Trump added. "But her destruction of the law and order in California did not end there."

"In 2020 Kamala Harris proudly endorsed defund the police," Trump went on. "She supported a plan to cut the LA Police Department by at least $150 million and ideally more. This is when your crime in LA was reaching very significant heights. Today it's at the highest level it's ever been."