evidence: State records show that Trump donated US$6,000 ($9,107) in total to the then-California attorney-general's campaign — US$5,000 ($7,589) in September 2011 after she was first elected, and another US$1,000 ($1,518) in 2013. [...] At the time of Trump's donations to Harris' campaign, he was facing a class action about whether Trump University had defrauded its students. [...] "I think those political donations are always, generally speaking, done because somebody is seeking influence or they want something out of a candidate," Shortis said, adding that Trump's contribution to Harris' campaign wasn't much in the scale of US election financing.