Vice President Kamala Harris’ past relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is “fair game” for media scrutiny now that the former is the overwhelming favorite to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, according to Megyn Kelly.
“I’m going to go there,” Kelly said on her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Monday, noting there was a “debate on Twitter … whether Willie Brown” boosted her career during her romance their brief decades ago.
“First she slept with this guy Willie Brown, who was an extremely popular and powerful congressman in California… and he put her in two different positions that she didn’t deserve when she was only 29 or 30 years old. [and] he was 60 years old,” according to Kelly.
“Already that case is doubtful.”
Brown, who was then speaker of the California Assembly, and Harris met when she was a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. The relationship began in 1994 and ended sometime the following year.
According to reports, Brown was separated from his wife at the time he and Harris were dating.
As speaker, Brown gave patronage positions to political allies, including Harris, who was appointed to two board positions that paid lucrative salaries.
“She was making the equivalent of 130 grand a year in today’s money for meeting twice a month for these medical boards and another position for what she had zero qualifications for,” Kelly noted on her SiriusXM show Monday.
“He was trying to pave the way for her political career.”
Kelly noted that Brown “admitted that he was the one who helped her get the role as DA and she was sleeping with him.”
“I’m sorry. It’s a fair game … It takes some talent,” Kelly said.
The Post has sought comment from Harris and Brown.
After Brown’s tenure in the California Assembly, he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1996.
Harris eventually rose to become San Francisco’s district attorney. In 2011, she was elected attorney general of California, a role she held until 2017.
She succeeded Barbara Boxer as U.S. Senator before being selected as former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020.
Brown said Monday that he thinks President Biden should step down from the presidency and hand the reins to Harris.
He told reporters in San Francisco that the odds of defeating the GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump, would be much higher if she ran as an incumbent.
“Her chances go up if at this point he were to say not only I’m no longer a candidate, but I’m no longer president — she is,” Brown said, according to the San Francisco Standard.
Four years ago, Brown asked Harris to turn down Biden’s offer to be his vice president and instead choose the role of attorney general.
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