Kim Kardashian, Who Visited Trump White House to Support Criminal Justice Bill, Returns to Meet With Kamala Harris

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Four years after bringing her cause to former President Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian returned to the White House to express her gratitude to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for continuing the work on criminal justice reform.

Kardashian met with Harris and White House public engagement director Steve Benjamin on Thursday, as well as four people who had just received clemency from the Biden administration. With cameras rolling, Harris told Kardashian:

I want to thank Kim for your advocacy and for using your platform in a way that has really lifted up the importance of talking about and being dedicated to second chances.

Kardashian said:

It was actually this very room that I was in years ago, my first clemency meeting, that really inspired me to take a journey of really helping to figure out how I can be helpful and how I can tell the amazing stories that I would hear from, the success stories from individuals like yourself. And I didn’t know a whole lot, and I was inspired to go to law school and really further my education to see what I can do to help.

Beginning in 2018, Kardashian began working with a group that sought clemency for nonviolent offenders, namely a woman named Alice Johnson, who eventually received a pardon from Trump. Appearing with Trump resulted in some backlash, but Kardashian told The View in 2019: “For me, any of my issues have always been more about the people and not about the politics, and so for me to think that I couldn’t go and speak to the man that has the power to change people’s lives because of some opinions I may have of certain policies and issues, to me felt very self-centered.”