Harris’s choice of Trump debate prep­per rais­es eye­brows for pos­si­ble con­flicts

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s deci­sion to tap a high-pow­ered lawyer rep­re­sent­ing Google in an antitrust law­suit to help pre­pare for pres­i­den­tial debates has raised con­cerns from oper­a­tives on both sides of the aisle.
The Har­ris team added Karen Dunn as a debate prepa­ra­tion spe­cial­ist in late July, short­ly after Pres­i­dent Joe Biden with­drew from the race, accord­ing to the Wash­ing­ton Post. How­ev­er, the tran­si­tion has raised ques­tions of a pos­si­ble con­flict of inter­est as Dunn pre­pares to rep­re­sent Google next month in a law­suit brought by the Depart­ment of Jus­tice under the Biden-Har­ris admin­is­tra­tion. 
“Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris should not have a Google lawyer doing her debate prep right before her administration’s Depart­ment of Jus­tice pros­e­cutes them in court,” a strate­gist and for­mer senior Demo­c­ra­t­ic aide told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er. “It sends a mes­sage that Har­ris is not the ‘tough on crime’ for­mer pros­e­cu­tor that she’s cam­paign­ing as.”
Dunn has been a fix­ture of Demo­c­ra­t­ic debate prepa­ra­tion for years, includ­ing assist­ing Har­ris for her 2020 debate against th …