Kamala Harris is lying about working at McDonald’s, Trump claims
She worked at a branch of McDonald’s in Alameda, California during the summer of 1983, while she was a student at Howard University, according to Quentin Fulks, her deputy campaign manager.
However, Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms Harris’s story about serving fries is “fake” and vowed to visit a McDonald’s himself.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday, he said: “Oh, I’m going. Because she lied.”
He added of Ms Harris’s story about working at McDonald’s as a student: “We checked it out. Unless somebody comes up with something. We checked it out. They said she never worked here. She even picked the store. We went to the manager. The manager’s been there forever. ‘You remember her?’ ‘No, she never worked here’. They know.”
This is entertaining. In the same article we have -
However, Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms Harris’s story about serving fries is “fake”
Then we have Trump's evidence -
We went to the manager. The manager’s been there forever. ‘You remember her?’ ‘No, she never worked here’. They know.”
It isn't necessary to believe one side or the other, but it is worth noting that the same article states that Trump has no evidence for his claim then quite clearly states what that evidence is - someone went there and asked. Implying that someone from Trump's team went and asked, so a journalist could do that too. Not in this case apparently.
Journalistic standards eh?
2 comments:
Probably the journalists pitch their levels of integrity and drive to match those of the general public. If either Trump or Harris were to swear on every holy book that they had seen unicorns from Jupiter, few voters would change their intentions. People now accept that politicians lie, which in some respects is even scarier than when they were gullible.
Sam - yes, accepting that politicians lie is scarier than gullibility, although there is a large overlap. There may be a growing trend where populists realise that there is something to be gained by telling it as it is, even tangentially. It's something I've noticed about Starmer, his mendacity is old-school - tell the plebs nothing.
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