Justice Department admits Kamala Harris was not in Capitol during riot

 

The Justice Department is quietly correcting the record about where Vice President Kamala Harris was during the Jan. 6 siege of Congress.

The whereabouts of Harris, who was still a U.S. senator at the time, remain a mystery, but the government recently acknowledged in court that prior assertions that she was present when pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol complex were untrue.

“The government incorrectly stated that Vice President-Elect Harris was present in the U.S. Capitol at the time of the attack,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing in one Jan. 6 case this month. "In fact, Vice President-Elect Harris was not present at that particular time, though she was present earlier in the day and was present later that day."

After Politico reported how the Justice Department was beginning to acknowledge its mistake, one of its reporters noted this week that prosecutors are filing new indictments removing references to Harris being in the building during the riot...MORE