Trump has an issue: McDonald's-gate
Trump is obsessively claiming that Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s. He is saying it over and over and over again at his rallies. “It was a lie,” Trump told a rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina. “It was a fake story. It was a fake story; the press now refuses to write it because it’s so, you know, this is a simple one. She said she worked at McDonald’s and she didn’t. It was a lie. She never worked at McDonald’s over the hot French fries.”
Trump thinks that this time, he’s got her. First, she’s not really Black, now Vice President Kamala Harris has “lied” about working part time at an outlet of the fast-food chain one summer when she attended Howard University.
Trump demands to know why this isn’t a bigger story. After one rally, he went onto his social media platform and charged, “NEVER WORKED AT McDONALD’S — A TOTAL LIE. LAMESTREAM MEDEA REFUSES TO REPORT THIS FACT.” That’s a direct quote.
Trump’s repeated charge is so absurd that in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday, Stephanie Ruhle asked the Vice President the question of the hour: “At any point in your life have you served two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun working at a McDonald’s?”
“I have,” Harris answered. “Part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family and pay rent on that. And I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people, and what our responsibility then is to meet those needs.”
According to Steve Benen at MaddowBlog, Trump has repeated his charge in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Washington, D.C. In California, at one of his press conferences where he doesn’t take questions from the press, Trump continued to attack Harris for her claim that she worked at McDonalds. In North Carolina, Trump complained that in her interview with Vice President Harris, Oprah Winfrey had not challenged her about whether she was telling the truth about working for McDonalds.
With 39 days left before the election in November, at a time when the Middle East is blowing up, Russia is drawing a brand new red line threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and the state of Texas is going to the Supreme Court to make sure it can continue to deny women abortions in emergency rooms when their pregnancies are in life-threatening distress, Trump has found the issue he wants to stake his campaign on: Kamala Harris’ work history at McDonalds.
I know Trump’s MAGA base will follow him down any rabbit hole he wants to lead them into, but someone should take his temperature and help him to a place where he can lie down. Donald Trump needs help.
The wonderful thing about this is the MSM has actually not participated. The only coverage this gets is when he indulges his most pressing urge and grabs the first available microphone. I pray that Carville's "feeling" that she is not going to lose by a little comes true, that it's not going to be close and she wins. You cannot poll the massive numbers of young people who've registered to vote, first because they breathed a sigh of relief when Harris became the candidate and second when Taylor Swift "signed up" tons of others. If the closeness of the race is accurate, these folks are not being counted and they will make the difference. We won't know until after this is over, but I too have a feeling there's something else going on. The numbers do not make sense even with the crazies who will vote for him no matter what. I have nothing but hope to place on this hope. And if this isn't something, get a load of Vance's latest ultra weirdness about car safety belts and seats making baby production decline. I can't wait for this debate. We have down-to-earth Walz against the ever more bizarre by the day inauthentic Vance.
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