VP Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist economics professor, and her brother-in-law misused taxpayer money under Obama.

From Fox News. Vice President Kamala Harris has frequently cited her upbringing and family as she crisscrosses the nation in an effort to rally support for her newly-formed presidential campaign, including touting her father in a rare mention at the DNC.

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“My early memories of our parents together are very joyful ones. A home filled with laughter and music: Aretha, Coltrane and Miles. At the park, my mother would say, ‘Stay close.’ But my father would say, as he smiled, ‘Run, Kamala, run. Don’t be afraid. Don’t let anything stop you.’ From my earliest years, he taught me to be fearless,” Harris said during her acceptance speech during the DNC in Chicago last Thursday.

Harris was born in Oakland, California, in 1964 to Shyamala Gopalan, a ​​biologist who immigrated to the U.S. from India, and Donald Harris, an economist who immigrated from Jamaica.

Harris’ parents divorced when she was 7 years old, with the future vice president spending a lot of her time with her mother and sister in Canada …

Following Harris rising to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and formally accepting the party’s nomination last week, Fox News Digital examined her father’s background and legacy within academia.

Donald J. Harris, who coincidentally shares the same first name as VP Harris’ Republican rival, former President Donald J. Trump, is a retired Stanford University professor of economics, whose econ background is steeped in Marxist theory, which earned him the description from the Economist last month as a “combative Marxist economist.”  …

Donald J. Harris was born in 1938 in Jamaica, and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of London before moving to the U.S. to complete his doctorate in economics at the University of California in Berkeley in 1966. He met the vice president’s mother while attending Berkeley, with the pair marrying and sharing daughters Kamala and Maya Harris.

He held teaching positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before the couple divorced in the early 1970s. He took a position with Stanford in 1972 as a professor of economics after also working at ​​the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

The Stanford Daily, the elite university’s student newspaper, described Donald Harris as teaching “radical political economics” and as a “Marxian economist” in 1974. …

He retired from teaching in 1998 “in order to pursue more actively and practically his long-standing interest, which originally motivated him to take up the study of economics, in developing public policies to promote economic growth, unleash productive capabilities, and advance social equity,” according to his Stanford biography. …

He has notably remained relatively quiet about his daughter’s political successes, not joining her at the DNC or other political rallies and very rarely offering insight into his relationship with his daughter.

Kamala Harris has also rarely mentioned her father throughout her political career, saying in 2003, “My father is a good guy, but we are not close,” before telling the Washington Post in 2021 that she and her father were on “good terms.”  …

From The New York Post. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, may be the current world-class champ of presidential-family shady dealings, but not for long.

If Kamala Harris wins the White House, her brother-in-law, Tony West, who is married to her sister Maya, is poised to claim the crooked crown. …

Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19^th-early 20^th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.” …

Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000. …

But in that year, seeking relief from the burgeoning volume of suits to review, Congress removed the cap, handing the Justice Department a permanent blank check to pay settlements unilaterally, in any amount, out of an account known as the Judgment Fund. …

The limited data released omits recipients, the facts underlying the case, and often the lawyers involved.

By statute, attorneys’ fees awarded need not be disclosed. …

Still, for three decades, the integrity of Justice’s officials sufficed to prevent abuse.

Then, in 2009, Tony West took over the department’s Civil Division, the division that litigates and settles lawsuits. …

Settlements became the vehicle for paying off political allies.

For example, in late 2010, after a Supreme Court victory, DOJ lawyers were on the cusp of winning a decade-long fight against discrimination claims by 91 Hispanic and female farmers.

That’s when West intervened and, as The New York Times put it, “engineered a stunning turnabout.”

DOJ agreed to a $1.33 billion settlement which included thousands of farmers who had never claimed bias. …

The projected settlement size ballooned to over $4.4 billion as additional plaintiffs were added, including Native American farmers.

The government’s statistical expert was appalled: “‘If they had gone to trial, the government would have prevailed . . . It was just a joke. . . . I was so disgusted. It was simply buying the support of the Native Americans.’” …

But West did not just bilk taxpayers. He shook down corporations, too.

In a series of bank settlements, his team added increasingly aggressive provisions requiring the institutions to make nearly a billion dollars in mandatory donations to Democrat-supporting activist groups.

Donations were given double credit against required targets, incentivizing these payments over direct relief to victims of the housing crises.

West’s team specifically structured the terms to ensure that they would benefit only their political allies while leaving conservative groups ineligible.

An internal email shows West deputies rewording a settlement’s donation provisions to ensure the bank could not select a “conservative” property rights organization as a recipient.

Over time, West grew even more brazen. …

In this legal shakedown, California’s attorney general at the time, Kamala Harris, was an active participant, cosigning the agreements for her state. …

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(Excerpts from Fox News and The New York Post. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Kamala Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79477019)