Kamala Harris hits 'unserious' Trump over crimes and misdeeds — in and out of office

Kamala Harris accepted the presidential nomination on Thursday at a raucous Democratic National Convention and warned of a bleak vision of a Donald Trump return to the White House.

Donning a dark blue suit — and following a lengthy welcoming applause — Harris made her case to the American people, emphasizing that she comes with the experience of a prosecutor — while her opponent comes with a criminal record.

"As a prosecutor, I charged not in the name of the victim, but in the name of the people," she said. "A harm against any of us is a harm against all of us."

Harris said she often explained this to console survivors of crime

"Every day in the courtroom I stood proudly before a judge and I said five words: Kamala Harris: For the People," she said.

Harris called the 2024 election a "precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past."

"Not as members of any one party or faction but as Americans," she said.

She pledged that as president, she would always put country above party and self, and vowed to hold sacred America's "fundamental principles for the rule of law," as well as to "free and fair elections" and the "peaceful transfer of power."

Harris laid out a stark alternate reality of what could be in store under a second Trump term.

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"Donald Trump is an unserious man," she said "The consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the white house are extremely serious. Consider not only the chaos and calamity, when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the election. Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes."

She said that when Trump failed to overturn the 2020 election, he "sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol — where they assaulted law enforcement officers."

"When politicians begged him to call off the mob, and send help, he did the opposite — he fanned the flames," Harris said.

She continued laying into the former president, pointing to a completely different set of crimes.

"He was found guilty of fraud by a jury of every day Americans and separately found liable for committing sexual abuse," she said.

She urged voters to think about what Trump plans to do if he returns to power.

"Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law-enforcement officers at the Capitol. His explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents and anyone he sees as the enemy."