Sen. Kamala Harris on Friday held up Paul Manafort's relatively lenient prison sentence as evidence that the criminal justice system is “broken in America'
In Manafort’s case, Harris countered Friday, “one, the sentence does not match the crime. Two, we are looking at further evidence in America’s judicial system of absolute unfairness.”
“People who commit white-collar crimes, they should be prepared to bring their toothbrush and spend as much time behind bars as anybody else,” she said to raucous applause.
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