Trump previously donated $6,000 to Kamala D. Harris’s campaigns

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Presumptive Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) looks on as presumptive Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event broadcast from Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

August 12, 2020 at 7:06 p.m. EDT

Before he entered politics, President Trump donated $6,000 to Kamala D. Harris’s reelection campaign while she was California attorney general, campaign finance records show.

Trump gave $5,000 to Harris’s campaign in September 2011 and $1,000 in February 2013. His daughter Ivanka Trump gave Harris’s campaign $2,000 in 2014, records show.

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Harris, now the running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, was California’s attorney general from 2011 until 2016 — when she was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 2015, the year Trump began his campaign for president, Harris said she gave Trump’s donations to charity.

By David Fahrenthold

David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. He has been at The Washington Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment and the D.C. police.Twitter

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