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Trump misleads about Harris and California crime law
At a news conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, former President Donald Trump blamed Vice President and D
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- Kamala Harris was California’s attorney general in 2014 when voters approved Proposition 47, a ballot initiative aimed at reducing the state’s overcrowded prison population.
- The bill said people convicted of shoplifting items valued at $950 or less can be charged only with a misdemeanor, not a felony.
- The $950 threshold already existed, having been signed into law by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010. Proposition 47 affirmed it and addressed more theft categories.
- Harris had no role in creating the ballot initiative and remained publicly neutral about it, experts said.