A wannabe filmmaker who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Kamala Harris’ office when she was San Francisco’s district attorney said he was bullied by Hollywood leftists into supporting Democrats in 2020 — but is now all in for Team Trump.
Jamal Trulove spent six years in San Quentin and other California state prisons and was only sprung in 2015 after he was acquitted in a retrial, amid accusations of police and prosecutorial misconduct from Harris’ office.
“I can’t see myself voting for a woman who had something to do with me being framed for murder,” Trulove told The Post by phone.
“When we look at what our life was like when Trump was in office we felt like life was good compared to right now,” said Trulove, 39. “We wasn’t in no wars, right now we’re in wars. Illegals wasn’t coming in, but they’re coming in now.”
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“So a huge reason to why I’m voting for Donald Trump is because the economy, the border and inflation,” he said.
During the 2020 election, Trulove, who appeared on the VH1 reality TV show “I Love New York 2,” publicly backed the Biden/Harris ticket — something he now regrets, he said.
“I put my differences aside only because I was being pressured by executives and a lot of my advisors, because I had I had contracts to do my documentary and obviously, I do film, and so forth and so on.” he said, adding that he feared being “blackballed.”
“The people that I work with in Hollywood, they’re all on the left,” he added. “I really had no other choice.”
Trulove’s turn to Trump didn’t happen overnight.
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Just weeks after appearing on the VH1 show, Trulove, an aspiring actor and hip-hop performer, was arrested in 2010 for the 2007 murder of 28-year-old Seu Kuka in a San Francisco housing project.
The case was predicated almost entirely off a single witness:Priscilla Lualemaga, who identified Trulove as the shooter. Deputy prosecutor Linda Allen lauded Lualemaga at the time, alleging she faced deadly retaliation for her participation.
“She’ll never get her life back,” Allen said at the time, adding Lualemaga testified knowing “maybe [she’ll] get killed over being a witness because she saw someone else kill someone.”
Harris, who was District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 until 2010, did not prosecute the case directly, but praised the “brave eyewitnesses” after Trulove was convicted.
He was convicted in October 2010 and sentenced to 50 years to life. A few months later, Harris was elected Attorney General of California.
Trulove appealed, and in 2014, the California Court of Appeal overturned his conviction, citing “highly prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct” by Harris’ office, including falsely and improperly inflating the personal danger Lualemaga had been in.
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“The People did not present a scintilla of evidence at trial that defendant’s friends and family would try to kill Lualemaga if she testified against him, nor that Lualemaga was placed in the witness protection program for any reason other than Lualemaga’s subjective concerns about her safety,” the court wrote.
“Rather than concede Lualemaga’s fears were just that, however, the People trumpeted her courageous willingness to testify in the face of assassins lurking on defendant’s behalf. This yarn was made out of whole cloth.”
A new trial was ordered for Trulove in 2015,at which he was acquitted. A federal civil jury later found that San Francisco police officers fabricated evidence against Trulove and withheld exculpatory evidence in the case. Linda Allen, one of the prosecuting attorneys, was later fired by Harris’ district attorney successor, far-left progressive Chesa Boudin.
After being released from prison, Trulove tried to get back into the filmmaking and media business.
He worked on a documentary called “Black and White: The Greatest Team That Almost Never Was” — which told the story of racial integration in college football and the 1972 University of Southern California Trojans. The project does not appear to have been made.
He also had a small role in the 2019 film “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” according to IMDB.
In July, Trulove mocked Harris on his YouTube account, “Kamala laughalot Harris” — and accused her of mocking him in court after he was initially sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.
“She was smiling. She did that stupid ass laugh that she do right now,” Trulove said in the video.
