Right-Wing Media Carries Out Emergency Investigation Into Kamala Harris’ McDonald’s Job
Harris previously mentioned working at McDonald’s while she was an undergrad at Howard University in the 1980s. So a right-wing media outlet launched a full-scale investigation.
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Like Lady GaGa investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, right-wing media outlet the Washington Free Beacon is similarly trying to get to the bottom of one of the great political issues of our time: Whether Vice President Kamala Harris did or did not work at McDonald’s as an undergraduate student in the 1980s. On Thursday, the outlet published a story seemingly casting doubt on Harris’ tenure as a fry cook, even though she’s referenced it multiple times on the campaign trail. Their main evidence seems to be that, on at least one job application following her college graduation, Harris didn’t list her summer job at the fast food joint.
“It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college,” the article, co-authored by not two but three different Free Beacon journalists, reveals. “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.’” Mind you, Donald Trump has never submitted a job application in his entire life, but this, the Free Beacon insists, is the real scandal.