HOT TOPIC: Kamala Caught In Super-Sized Lie About Her Past

It looks as though the newest “golden child” of the Democratic Party may not have been quite as honest about her time working beneath the famed golden arches as she has led us to believe.

Kamala Harris has touted her job back in the day working for McDonald’s as one of those common life experiences politicians love to highlight.  It makes them look very salt-of-the-earth, no matter how elitist their lives may have become.

At least, it does if it’s true.  But one more strand of Kamala’s web of smoke and mirrors seems to have just come unraveled.

First I want to glance at a recent CNN story highlighting why there is very good reason for the Democrat strategists to connect their candidates with McDonald’s at every conceivable turn.

If elected this fall, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will usher in many “firsts” in American history. Among them: The first White House couple to have worked at McDonald’s.

With that line on their resumes, Harris and Emhoff share a link to 1 in 8 Americans who have worked at McDonald’s – 13% of the country – according to the company.

Broadcasting that shared history, as they have this week at the Democratic National Convention, has become a powerful way for Democrats to burnish their working-class credentials and, without even mentioning their rivals’ names, aim to make former President Donald Trump and the Republican ticket appear elitist and out of touch.

The same article quotes Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crocket from her DNC convention speech, “One candidate worked at McDonald’s… the other was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and helped his daddy in the family business: housing discrimination.”  Democrats have definitely jumped at an opportunity to claim President Trump is the elitist, and Kamala Harris is the candidate with the same working background as… all the rest of us.

With 1 out of every 8 Americans sharing the commonality of McDonald’s work experience, it doesn’t take a mathematician (praise God!) to see why McDonald’s has become a key point to highlight for political strategists.

The same CNN article mentioned Bill Clinton’s joke about Kamala — “she’ll break my record as the president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s”, and also mentioned Kamala’s husband was once recognized as “Employee of the Month” during HIS time working at… you guessed it… McDonald’s.

Oddly, McDonald’s actually “declined” to supply CNN with a comment for that story.

Very quickly let’s go back to a 2019 video so you can see for yourself.  Yes… Kamala has repeatedly claimed that her work history includes McDonald’s:

I worked at @McDonalds when I was a student, doing french fries and ice cream. There wasn’t a family relying on me to pay the bills — but that’s the reality for too many workers today. Proud to stand with @SEIU today for livable wages and a safe working environment. pic.twitter.com/essu9q63JF

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 14, 2019

So let’s break down what has come to light.  First, there was the following post on X.com this morning:

NEW: Dems made a huge deal at the DNC about Kamala Harris once working at McDonalds in the summer of 1983. But did she really?@ChuckRossDC, @SaysSimonson and I performed an exhaustive review of the facts:

1: We badgered McDonalds, which employs a full-time archivist, for close…

— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) August 29, 2024

Here are the details of his post, which links to this Washington Free Beacon article which Andrew wrote along with a couple of colleagues after a good deal of investigation.  He outlined their entire investigation:

@ChuckRossDC , @SaysSimonson and I performed an exhaustive review of the facts:

1: We badgered McDonalds, which employs a full-time archivist, for close to a month to confirm the claim. Their lips remain sealed.

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2: The Harris campaign can’t keep its story straight. First, they said Harris worked at McDonalds to pay her way through college. Now, they say she worked there for some extra spending money.

3: The Harris campaign’s flip-flop in point 2 came just hours after the Free Beacon first reached out to the campaign with detailed questions about her employment with McDonalds.

4: Harris never mentioned McDonalds in her two books, and third-party biographers did not write about it in at least four published books. One of her biographers told us he was “not aware” of Harris’s job at McDonalds.

5: Harris, in an October 1987 job application we obtained that instructed her to list every job she’s had for the last 10 years, didn’t list her job at McDonalds in the Summer of 1983. Though she did list another summer job she held for just a month.

6: The New York Times reported earlier this week, without attribution, that Harris worked at a franchise in Alameda. Other than that, the Harris campaign has released no details about Harris’s employment at McDonalds.

Compare this to Barack Obama, who in 2008 talked about his first job scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. News outlets published the address of the restaurant. Photographers posted pictures of the establishment online. The manager of the store quipped after the 2008 election that she was somewhat of a media professional after dealing with reporters at several outlets.

The same can’t be said for Harris.

I want to highlight what jumps out at me.  Maybe this is just me, but the changing story — first it was a job to pay her way through college, but later it becomes just for some spending money.  As Andrew pointed out, that flip-flop happened within hours of reaching out to the Harris campaign with detailed questions about her McDonald’s work story.

That, and the fact that she never mentioned McDonald’s, not one single time, in either of her books, with even her biographer stating he was “not aware” that Kamala had worked at McDonalds — suspicious is an understatement as far as I’m concerned.

And then… there is the job application.  I know, I know – sometimes you don’t want “every” job you’ve settled for to show up for your next employer to see.  But this is the 80’s.  She’s a college student.

She did, after all, include a clerical job that only lasted a month, as well as “extensive travel in India, Africa, [and] Europe” and “lived in Montreal, Canada for six years” — which appears on her 1987 job application, sourced and included in the Washington Free Beacon story.  McDonald’s is oddly absent.

The Harris-Walz campaign has leaned on Kamala’s (now highly questionable) McDonald’s work history to the degree they recently released an entire campaign ad based on it:

As the writers of the Washington Free Beacon story pointed out, they “badgered” McDonald’s Corporate (which employs a full-time archivist!) for nearly a month, and McDonald’s would not verify her employment history with them.

But wait — does the newly surfaced photo posted on X.com prove Kamala was telling the truth, all along???

Things that never happened….. pic.twitter.com/s323GSv4I7

— Nurse Patriot (@LABeachGal1) August 29, 2024

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.  After the Harris-Walz campaign was caught consistently using FAKED CROWDS in carefully curated videos of campaign events… you just never know what “proof” Kamala might offer up to validate her ever-changing McDonald’s story in the future.

Can we say that Kamala Harris never worked for McDonald’s, and that she has (not for the first time) unequivocally lied about her past on this specific point?  No.  But lucky for you, me, and every other American who has eyes to see — even in a court of law, “reasonable doubt” carries a lot of weight.

And from where I’m sitting, there is more reason to doubt Kamala Harris ever earned a paycheck cooking fries under the golden arches than there is to believe it.  Come November, maybe we’ll see how many voters with “eyes to see” there actually are out there.