Trump Donated to Kamala Harris’s Campaigns for California Attorney General

Long before former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were barreling toward a potential presidential showdown in November, Mr. Trump was one of her donors.

Mr. Trump donated $6,000 to Ms. Harris’s campaign when she was just beginning her career in statewide politics as a center-left prosecutor from San Francisco seeking to become California’s attorney general. Mr. Trump’s first donation, for $5,000, came in 2011, and he made an additional $1,000 contribution in 2014.

His daughter, Ivanka, also gave Ms. Harris’s campaign $2,000 in 2014, according to records first reported by the Sacramento Bee.

Ms. Harris, whose values have been shaped as much by the state’s tough-on-crime 1990s as by the Bay Area’s progressive politics, has long been a draw for Democratic donors. She raised more than $50 million in less than 24 hours after entering the 2024 race for president, her campaign said, as Democrats welcomed her candidacy with one of the greatest gushers of cash of all time.

Mr. Trump’s donations came at a time when he was facing a class-action lawsuit into whether Trump University bilked students out of money. Ms. Harris’s office never took action against the entity; officials working for Ms. Harris said at the time the donations had nothing to do with that lack of action.

Harris and Trump campaign officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.