Vice President Kamala HarrisWillie Brown, the 90-year-old ex-boyfriend, believes that Pres Joe Biden she would have to step down as president so she can fill the position.
Brown candidly revealed his thoughts on Harris, who she dated when she was 60 and ran for mayor of San Franciscoand she was a relatively unknown 29-year-old prosecutor.
Brown joked that if Harris won the presidency, “She's going to deport my ass**,” a longtime joke about his former girlfriend turned political protégé.
He made his comments in an interview with Politico columnist Jonathan Martin.
Brown also expressed concern that Harris has “Hillary syndrome” and that “people don't like her,” which she said was an irreparable problem.
Harris considers the former California speaker of the state assembly and former mayor of San Francisco, for being one of his political mentors.
Wille Brown and Kamala Harris when they were in San Francisco
Brown also revealed that Harris was not the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosithe first choice for president and who worked to ensure that his other political protégé Gov. Gavin Newsom he was completely behind Harris.
Brown confirmed the story of how when he was dating Kamala Harris in the 1990s and participating in an event at Harvard, then a business developer. donald trump flew Brown, Harris and their team aboard his private jet for a meeting in New York.
Harris was not at the meeting, but Brown says he has a photo of him and Harris on Trump's plane.
Brown said former President Donald Trump was successful in politics because of his celebrity.
“He's an entertainer, that's all,” he said.
Brown gave Harris a meaning stimulus in his political career, as detailed in Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris at the White House.
When they left, Brown was considered the most powerful politician in California, and although he was still married, he separated from his wife Blanche, who lived in a separate house from him.
Willie Brown advised Joe Biden to step down and let Harris take over while he runs for president.
United States Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
Brown appointed Harris to two different state boards, which paid him more than $400,000 over five years and gave him the keys to a BMW. He opened the doors to the rich and powerful of San Francisco.
Brown broke up with Harris after their one-year relationship, but was always around to lend a helping hand during her political career.
During his first run as San Francisco District Attorney, Brown donated to his campaign and helped raise money for the race.
Harris threw Brown under the bus during his campaign, insisting that her romantic and political connection to the mayor was over.
“Willie Brown won't be there. He's gone — hey folks, go ahead,” Harris told SF Weekly in a 2003 magazine profile insisting he would be “independent” of Brown and “probably right now express a little scared because he can't control me.”
'His career is over; I will be alive for the next 40 years. I don't owe him anything,” he said.
It was the last time she spoke publicly about her former lover and political mentor.
Since Harris was endorsed by the Democrats as the new presidential candidate, Brown shared his opinion with him San Francisco Standard about his abilities to run and win the election.
“You can very easily underestimate Kamala Harris, but if you do, you'll look up from the dungeon because the queen will be on the throne,” he said.