21 Kamala Harris Lies ABC Debate Moderators Did Not Fact Check

✪ Vice President Kamala Harris issued a slew of lies, false claims and hoaxes that ABC debate moderators did not fact check during Tuesday’s debate against former President Donald Trump...

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ere are 21 false claims and hoaxes that Harris uttered on live television, in front of millions of Americans:

1. The “Very Fine People” Lie

Harris claimed Trump called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville “very fine people,” a widely known lie that Democrats continue to repeat, despite it being debunked for years by numerous outlets, including by the left-wing fact checking website Snopes.

2. The Project 2025 Lie

Harris accused Trump of wanting to implement Project 2025. This is completely false. Trump has repeatedly stated that he has nothing to do with Project 2025 and hasn’t even read it.

Trump promptly corrected Harris on the debate stage, saying, “I have nothing to do — as you know, and as she knows, better than anyone — I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I haven’t read it, I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.”

Trump added. “Everybody knows I’m an open book. Everybody knows what I’m going to do: cut taxes very substantially and create a great economy like I did before.”

3. False Claims About The Trump Trade Deficit

Harris claimed “the Trump Administration resulted in a trade deficit” that was “one of the highest we’ve ever seen in the history of America.” This is patently false.

The trade deficit climbed to around $653 billion during Trump’s final year as president, in part because of depressed global demand for U.S. goods and services and a U.S. economy that recovered sooner than most other developed economies.

However, the trade deficit never rose to the levels seen under former President George W. Bush or the Biden-Harris Administration.

4. The Trump “Let Putin Do Whatever The Hell He Wanted” Lie

Harris claimed that Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he could “do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine.” This is false. Trump never told Putin he could do “whatever the hell he wants,” and he never told Putin he could invade Ukraine.

To add insult to injury, this false claim is also coupled with stark gaslighting, given that Putin appears to be doing whatever he wants during the Biden-Harris Administration — such as invading Ukraine — and not during the Trump Administration.

5. The “Dictator On Day One” Lie

Harris claimed that Trump “wants to be a dictator on day one.” This is false. Trump has never said any such thing.

6. Blaming The Afghanistan Withdrawal Disaster On Trump

In another example of never before seen levels of gaslighting, Harris blamed her and Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal on Trump.

After being asked point blank, “Do you believe you bear any responsibility in the way that withdrawal played out?” Harris segued to talking about Trump’s communications with the Taliban, suggesting that the Biden-Harris Administration is not responsible for its own botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

This is not the first time Harris falsely claimed Trump is responsible for her and Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Last week, her campaign tried to blame it on Trump — even though it happened seven months after he left office — claiming he didn’t give the Biden-Harris Administration any “plans” on what they should do.

7. The Putin “Would Be Sitting In Kyiv” Lie

Harris claimed Putin “would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe” if Trump were now the President. This is blatantly false.

Russia under Putin invaded neighbors during the George Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden Administrations, but never while trump was in office.

8. The “Bloodbath” Lie

Harris also repeated the “bloodbath” lie, by falsely claiming that Trump called for a “bloodbath” if he lost the election. This is a long-debunked hoax, as Trump was referring to the car industry.

9. The Abortion “Monitor” Lie

Harris claimed Trump wanted an abortion “monitor.” This is false. Trump has never said any such thing.

This is not the first time Harris has used this false statement. Breitbart News fact-checked this claim when she made it at the Democrat National Convention. Notably, Harris has never provided any basis for her claim, which is calculated to scare voters, but is simply fictitious.

While making this claim, Harris also uttered another lie that Trump seeks to implement a “national abortion ban.” Trump has repeatedly stated that he would not sign a federal abortion ban. Additionally, abortion is not a federal issue. It is a state issue.

10. The Rental Property Racial Discrimination Lie

Harris claimed Trump “refused to rent his property to black families.” This is false. This claim has been made by Democrats for years, but it has never been proven. In 2016, the Associated Press performed a fact check on the claim, reporting that Trump and his father settled a government lawsuit about it with no admission of fault.

11. The Central Park Five “Execution” Lie

Harris claimed Trump called for the “execution” of the Central Park Five. This is false. Trump never specifically called for the “execution” of the Central Park Five defendants. This is another lie the Democrats made during their convention last month.

12. The Military “Suckers & Losers” Lie

Harris alluded to the “suckers and losers” lie by claiming that Trump had disparaged the military, including the fallen. This is totally false.

The false claim that Trump called dead soldiers “suckers and losers” is a familiar lie which has also been repeated by President Joe Biden. It stems from a report by the left-wing Atlantic, which has never been directly corroborated, and has been refuted as false by many eyewitnesses.

13. Making False Claims About Fracking

Harris claimed she never called for a fracking ban. This is false, as she explicitly called to end fracking when running for president in 2019.

14. Making False Claims About Oil Production

Harris claimed the Biden-Harris Administration has ramped up oil production to record levels. This is false. The Biden-Harris Administration has actively worked to block & curb domestic oil production.

Early in his administration, Biden ordered the secretary of the Interior Department to halt all new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters; and review existing permits for fossil fuel development. In 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration canceled oil leases sold by the Trump Administration in the Alaskan wildlife refuge and blocked all new drilling.

15. The Trump National Sales Tax Lie

Harris accused Trump of proposing a national sales tax. This is false. President Trump has never proposed a national sales tax.

During the debate, Harris referred to a “Trump sales tax” and claimed it would add 20 percent to the cost of goods. She was likely referring to Trump’s proposal to raise tariffs on imports. However, tariffs are paid by companies that import goods from abroad and not by consumers. Tariffs are not the same as a sales tax.

16. Distorting Unemployment Figures

Harris claimed Trump “left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.” This is false, as unemployment was 6.4 percent in January 2021, not far from full employment, when Trump left office.

17. The “I Was Raised Middle-Class” Lie

Harris claimed she had a middle-class upbringing, saying, ” I was raised as a middle-class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America.”

This is false. Harris had a rich Canadian upbringing, growing up in Westmount — a majority English neighborhood in the French province of Quebec.

Amusingly, Harris made her “middle-class” claim while completely dodging the question, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?” — and again, the ABC moderators never brought her back on track to the question at hand.

18. The Trump Will Terminate The Constitution Lie

Harris claimed Trump wants to “terminate” the U.S. Constitution. This is false. Trump does not want to “terminate” the Constitution and has refuted this lie numerous times himself.

Her claim likely stems from Trump’s reaction in 2022 to a bombshell New York Post report that the Democrat Party colluded with what was then known as Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution,” Trump said in a 2022 Truth Social post. “This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their HOAXES & SCAMS.”

“What I said was that when there is ‘MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION,’ as has been irrefutably proven in the 2020 Presidential Election, steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG,” Trump added.

19. He “Sold Us Out To China” Lie

Harris claimed Trump “sold us out” to the Chinese government with policies that “ended up selling American chips to China.” This is false.

The Trump Administration blocked the takeover of an American semiconductor maker by a Chinese investor, restricted exports to China’s top chipmaker, and largely limited sales to China and even to third countries who do business with Chinese companies considered a national security threat, such as the telecommunications company Huawei.

In another example of blatant gaslighting, the Biden-Harris Administration reportedly started green lighting third party suppliers to sell chips to Huawei in 2021.

20. The “Not A Single Troop In Any War Zone” Lie

Harris claimed there are currently no US active-duty troops in any combat zone anywhere around the world for the first time this century. This is false.

There are currently active duty U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Syria who have been under frequent attack by Iran-backed militia forces over the past year. There are also thousands of active-duty U.S. sailors deployed to the Middle East who are facing attacks by drone strikes and missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. Earlier this year, three U.S. soldiers were killed on the border of Syria by Iran-backed forces.

21. The We Won’t Take Your Guns Away Lie

Harris claimed she and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) “are not going to take anyone’s guns away.” This is false. Harris has campaigned on banning AR-15s and other guns that Democrats label “assault weapons.”

Just last month, during their first campaign event together, Harris and Walz pushed for a ban on AR-15s and other guns.

While ABC’s debate moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir failed to fact-check the plethora of false claims, lies and hoaxes uttered by Harris, they frequently tried to fact-check Trump, with Muir even bizarrely fact-checking a joke the 45th President had previously made.✪

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