CNN’s Daniel Dale has done the unthinkable. He took aim at @KamalaHQ, the official rapid response page on X for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. With over 1.3 million followers, the account has a wide reach, and according to Dale, “has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump.”
The account has been “repeatedly deceptive” and has made “inaccurate comments on multiple occasions,” Dale wrote. And he goes on to detail eight of the account’s most disingenuous posts from the last month.
He points out that all of these posts have been called out in real time by “an anonymous rebuttal account called @KamalaHQLies, which itself has more than 268,000 followers.”
In one example, Trump is shown speaking at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The caption on the post reads, “Trump: Would that be okay, North Carolina? (He is in Pennsylvania).” The obvious implication is that Trump has forgotten which state he was in. In the brief clip, he is heard saying, “Would that be okay, North Carolina? I don’t think so, right,” as he points to his left.
Dale notes that the Instagram version of this post includes the comment, “Donald Trump is lost and confused.”
[Democrats can get away with more on Instagram which does not have X’s “Community Notes” capability. This feature, according to X, “aims to create a better-informed world, by empowering people on X to collaboratively add helpful notes to posts that might be misleading.”]
Dale provides some context which shows that Trump knew exactly where he was. He explained, “The full video of the rally shows that earlier in the speech, Trump had pointed to the same spot on his left to acknowledge and then speak to a group of ardent supporters from North Carolina, eventually saying, ‘Thank you very much. North Carolina!’ Later, in the moment shown by @KamalaHQ, he pointed to these supporters again and referred to them as ‘North Carolina.’ He had not forgotten he was speaking in Pennsylvania.”
In another post, the campaign tried once again to show that Trump had forgotten which state he was in. The caption on the post read, “Trump: ‘Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote’ (He is in Arizona).” In the video, Trump is heard saying, “So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote, okay, just remember this: 2,000% increase. This is a small — … “
As usual, the Instagram version of this post was even more direct. It added the comment, “Trump forgets which state he is in (again).”
Once again, @KamalaHQ left out the context in which this remark was made. Dale cleared that up for his readers:
The extended footage shows that the Harris campaign clipped out critical context: Trump was talking about immigration, a key topic in Arizona, and had just read a part of his prepared text about how a small Pennsylvania town has “experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.” He then added, “So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote, okay, just remember this: 2,000% increase, this is a small town; of all a sudden they got thousands of people.”
Naturally, @KamalaHQ used Trump’s remarks about the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, out of context for the thousandth time. Although it took seven years, the Left’s version of that story has been formally debunked – by left-leaning fact checkers. It is truly reprehensible that Democrats continue to present it as the truth.
This post was quickly rebutted by @KamalaHQLies.
Dale flagged a post about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a roadmap for Republican governance prepared by a group of conservative think tanks that Trump has explicitly and repeated rejected. Although Trump has no connection to this initiative, Democrats continue to tie him to it to scare voters.
In another post, Dale shows the campaign taking remarks made by Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), about veterans’ health care wildly out of context. Read the article to see the others.
While none of this comes as a surprise to people who follow current events closely, for those who rarely follow the news or do so only casually, the sheer repetition of these lies makes them believable.
This is what makes Dale’s article so important. Reading an article from a liberal writer on a liberal site calling out the Harris campaign for their deception carries a lot more weight than reading the same article on Fox. Frankly, I’m amazed that Dale’s expose made it through editing at CNN.
Likewise, low information voters frequently turn to social media platforms to get their news. That’s why allowing the Harris campaign’s lies to stand is so dangerous.
The Trump campaign and the conservative media need to keep exposing the dishonesty of the Harris campaign and the candidate herself relentlessly until Election Day. It’s a pleasure to see a journalist from the liberal media helping us to push this message. More of this please.
And I’ll leave you with this. In the clip below, a group of soldiers deployed to a combat zone reacted to one of the many lies Harris told during last week’s debate. She claimed, “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is on active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.” And the troops responded in humorous fashion.
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Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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