Kim Kardashian and Vice President Kamala Harris discuss criminal justice reform

Kim Kardashian returns to the White House. This time, however, there will only be one, and not two, reality TV stars in attendance. According to Axios, the Skims founder will join current Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable discussion on criminal justice reform today. The outlet, which got the scoop from a White House official, explained that Kardashian will be featured alongside four people who received clemency from President Joe Biden earlier this week in connection with non-violent drug offenses. The vice president will reportedly announce the completion of the Biden administration’s efforts to lift loan restrictions on people with criminal records.

Kardashian traveled to the White House in 2018 to meet with former President Donald Trump. There, she and Trump were joined by Alice Marie Johnson, whose life sentence for a non-violent drug offense was brought to national attention and ultimately commuted by then-president. In his book Breaking history, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner explained that Kardashian was instrumental in advocating for Johnson’s pardon — a move that many believe led to the passage of the bipartisan First Step Act. “(She) elegantly presented Alice’s case to the President,” the former White House adviser wrote. “She knew the details backwards and forwards.”

The influencer later returned to the Trump White House in 2019 – where she gave a speech about initiatives aimed at helping former inmates get jobs out of prison – and a year later in 2020 to meet with Trump, and three women whose sentences he had commuted, in prison. Oval office.

However, despite their alleged goodwill, Kardashian and Trump’s relationship has become tense. In a November Truth Social rant, the ex-president called Kardashian the “world’s most overrated celebrity” in response to what he says are false claims in Jonathan Karl’s book. Tired of winning. He added that he “did help with prisoner commutations, but only if he deserved it, and much more so for Kanye West than for Kim, who probably voted for Crooked Joe Biden.”

During a performance op Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Kardashian spoke about her presidential feud. “Look, I don’t think he likes me very much,” she said. ‘But I’m doing well. I think he has done great things with prison reform.” Kardashian clearly sees the fight for criminal justice reform as going beyond the traditional divide between Republicans and Democrats. Still, now that 2024 is an election year, her appearance alongside Harris carries extra weight.