Heh: An Actual Kamala Policy Is So Extreme, Journos Wrongly Assumed Trump Invented It

During Tuesday's debate, Donald Trump made passing reference to a policy Kamala Harris supports -- namely, US taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants under temporary detention. We covered this earlier in the week, citing a CNN report that uncovered Harris' presidential candidate questionnaire from the ACLU. Here is how the 'K-File' article spelled it out: "As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners."

The piece went on:

In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use, and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an open-ended pledge to “end” immigration detention...The Harris campaign did not answer questions from CNN on whether she continued to support these positions and instead provided a statement attributable only to an unnamed “Harris campaign advisor” saying, “The Vice President’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris Administration.” They declined to elaborate on what her positions were.

In case you missed it, CNN even aired a primetime segment about this on the night before the debate. Trump noticed the report, apparently, because he raised it while listing off a litany of the radical positions Harris has espoused:

She went out -- she went out in Minnesota and wanted to let criminals that killed people, that burned down Minneapolis, she went out and raised money to get them out of jail. She did things that nobody would ever think of. Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this. She wants to confiscate your guns and she will never allow fracking in Pennsylvania.

Harris dismissed all of these as "lies" and untrue, but the record speaks for itself. Her infamous tweet raising money for the Minneapolis rioters while her running mate let that city burn is still live:

If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020

She said that didn't happen, but it did, as did her embrace of 'defund the police.' She explicitly embraced gun confiscation, euphemized as "mandatory buy-backs," and proposed unconstitutional gun control via exective fiat that was so brazen and illegal that Joe Biden pushed back on it:

Why the flip-flop? Does she no longer believe fracking is a "threat" to the "health" of communities, as she stated in justifying her fracking ban proposal? We've gotten no explanation on that -- or any of her many other "changes." And yes, Trump was quoting Harris' own questionnaire on taxpayer-furnished transition operations for detained illegal immigrants, but a lot of journos seemed to have no idea that it was true. They reflexively flagged it as a crazy Trump invention or "false" claim, apparently assuming the policy was too fringe for her to have said any such thing. But she did. Quite a sight to see:

Absolutely hilarious that journos think that one of Kamala Harris' *stated positions* is so crazy that Trump must have made it up. https://t.co/BOvQsnzvFl
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 11, 2024

This author is allegedly employed as a “fact checker.” https://t.co/fsjJhp6Soa pic.twitter.com/aoVVxvqbhw
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) September 11, 2024

This is one of the greatest corrections in history, from @TIME magazine:https://t.co/LV2won82DI pic.twitter.com/bl8mUKXgHC
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) September 11, 2024

Twitter's community notes corrected this before paid editors at the New Yorker. It's still there. https://t.co/7WNEY2vJ6e pic.twitter.com/8rv1emPF8P
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 11, 2024

Shocking realities also extend into the abortion debate, even if Trump messages these points poorly, and the pro-abortion side benefits from their stances being so horrifyingly extreme that normal people don't believe they could be true:

This is one reason that the ubiquitous barefaced denials that this is the case are quite effective: nobody believes it can be, because it’s so grotesque. https://t.co/aCX0XdfjJ7
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 11, 2024

Harris denied the truth about the ghastly abortion laws she and her running mate support, receiving no fact check from ABC News. On that point, I'll leave you with this:

To make matters worse.

Even ABC News recognized on their website that Minnesota has no restrictions on abortion.

You know, the ones who “Fact Checked” Trump night on this very issue. We do not hate the media enough. pic.twitter.com/kjKueYerNz
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 11, 2024

People literally never believe me when I tell them but you can legitimately get an abortion in NYC quite easily up until the end of your pregnancy. This is extreme. We are more permissive than pretty much ALL of Europe. Ghoulish. https://t.co/R1WS36R5iR
— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) September 11, 2024