Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she “was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s.”
It is possible that Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s in the early 1980s. But the absence of that detail in public records and her campaign’s coyness and refusal to provide any further details raise questions about what is now a foundational narrative.
The Free Beacon also obtained a copy of Harris’s October 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. On that form, Harris, who was in law school at the time, listed several jobs—including a month-long clerical job at a stock brokerage—in a section that asked her to list every position she held in the last 10 years. McDonald’s is absent.
But unlike Harris, there was no mystery surrounding Obama’s first job. News outlets published the address of the restaurant. Photographers posted pictures of the establishment online. Baskin-Robbins proudly touts on its website that Obama used to scoop ice cream for the chain. The manager of the store quipped after the 2008 election that she was somewhat of a media professional after having dealt with reporters from Good Morning America, CNN, and a television station from Norway asking questions about Obama.
The McDonald’s Corporation, which is proud of its 84-year history and employs a full-time archivist as its official historian, did not return several requests for comment. It has made no comment on Harris’s claims to have done the fries.
There’s some valid reasons to criticize Kamala, but they’re all about her being too far to the right.
Every bad thing about Kamala (and there are things bad about her) trump is objectively worse with.
It creates this weird situation where Republicans can’t criticize her for anything her voters don’t like without hurting trump worse, so they have to resort to random weird shit like demanding proof of a college job 40 fucking years ago.
That being said, SSA would actually have records to prove this, and if Republicans knew anything about how government works they’d never make a claim this easily disproven. We’re insanely lucky that Paul Ryan stepped back for politics and went to think-tanks. He’s still a problem, but if he ran in 2016 we’d all be incredibly fucked right now
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And I worked as a lifeguard back in 1996. I didn’t bring it up at my last software dev interview.
Adult interviews should focus on the qualifications of an adult. This is all small shit stirring by the alt right fascists because they don’t have anything real to work with against Vice President Harris.
A lying politician is okay as long as they are Democrat?
And how do you know she lied? Because she didn’t include an unrelated job when applying to be a law clerk?
Aside from the above-mentioned news reports, there was no tangible evidence of Harris working at McDonald’s as a college student. We reached out to Harris’ campaign, as well as McDonald’s headquarters, seeking such proof — which could include photos or videos of her working at the restaurant, employment records or physical items such as a uniform or name tag. We also looked for public interviews by friends or family members of Harris’ to confirm the story, with no luck.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-mcdonalds-college/
if Harris was being truthful and actually standing in solidarity with the workers would like to think there would not be hesitation when asked for proof
It’s a recent claim. Give the Harris press corps some time.
that is all the Democrats do is ask for time because baby steps and progress does not happen overnight
Well where is the oniony part? This looks like another article primed for the US Presidential election and doesn’t seem to fit the premise of this sub forum.
the article overanalyzes the fact that a human worked at mcdonald’s and tries to make a conspiracy theory out of it when they could’ve just asked social security or something. it’s not even a platform
there was no mystery surrounding Obama’s first job. News outlets published the address of the restaurant. Photographers posted pictures of the establishment online. Baskin-Robbins proudly touts on its website that Obama used to scoop ice cream for the chain …
WTF, America. All that might go a long way towards explaining why she was reluctant to mention it.
Stupid thing to lie about, but being as the republicans run confidence men like George Santos for public office, I have about negative two fucks to give for this.
So you’re actually convinced by the stupid argument that she lied because she didn’t mention it on her law resumé?
no not convinced by this or any stupid argument but what is convincing is when the person under question refuses to provide any evidence to support their claim
We reached out to Harris’ campaign, as well as McDonald’s headquarters, seeking such proof — which could include photos or videos of her working at the restaurant, employment records or physical items such as a uniform or name tag. We also looked for public interviews by friends or family members of Harris’ to confirm the story, with no luck.
if she would tell a small lie to trick workers who are underpaid to vote for her what else would Harris lie about
should make a lot of fucks
Research In Progress
Harris has made this claim repeatedly over the years, and multiple reputable news outlets have reported on the story. But, aside from Harris’ testimony itself, there is no evidence (such as a photo, employment record, or confirmation from a friend or family member) to independently verify the claim. Though we’ve seen no reason to doubt its veracity, we’ve reached out to Harris’ campaign and McDonald’s for evidence to corroborate her claim and we’ll update this report when we learn more.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-mcdonalds-college/
instead of trying to show the public you are on their side because of some false work claim she could instead come out defending workers and shouting for raising the minimum wage to $20 or more or actually going to current worker strikes and striking with them but instead she attends a fancy celeb filled gala where she tells the protesters to shut up
more that comes out about Harris and Walz the more they resemble Republicans like most Democrats these days
