There’s an old joke that is often bandied about in political discussions, a joke that has to do with honesty, or the lack thereof, among politicians. The first two names rarely vary, but the last does, for obvious reasons, and we’re due for another revision. The updated gag would run:
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George Washington couldn’t tell a lie. Richard Nixon couldn’t tell the truth. Kamala Harris can’t tell the difference.
Whether Kamala Harris can tell the difference or not, she has a long history of lying, dating back to at least the first time she ran for president. Chronicles Magazine’s Joseph P. Duggan has a particularly egregious example to share.
Five years ago, Kamala Harris, then a candidate for president, kept the firehose [of misinformation following the death of Michael Brown] flowing with a tweet intended to boost her campaign.
“Michael Brown’s murder,” she wrote, “forever changed Ferguson and America. His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement. We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
Her statement was a blatant lie.
Michael Brown was not murdered. Brown was recorded on a security camera robbing a convenience store and assaulting a store clerk. He struggled with the responding police officer, who shot him to death. Highly publicized local and federal investigations, all led by Democratic officeholders, determined that the police officer had acted in self-defense.
Harris, a former prosecutor and state attorney general who was then a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had all this information and understood what it meant. She lied anyway.
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The terrible thing about this particular incident is that Michael Brown’s death and the lies bandied by self-serving pols afterward resulted in looting, arson, robbery, and worse; homes and businesses were lost in an orgy of destruction in which the protesters destroyed their own neighborhoods, often citing the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie that was only one of many falsehoods bandied about after this event.
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It gets worse. Kamala Harris was a prosecutor and the attorney general of California, one of our nation’s largest states. She should have known better. At the very least, she should have waited until all the facts were in before issuing any opinion. That is what an honest person would have done.
But Kamala Harris is not honest.
Once the facts were in, an honest person would have apologized and issued a retraction.
But Kamala Harris is not honest.
An honest person would have admitted the truth: Michael Brown was a thug, he attacked a police officer, and the officer’s actions were justified.
But Kamala Harris is not honest.
My grandmother, a peppery old lady who raised six children on a small farm during the Depression, was fond of saying that honesty is like pregnancy: either you are honest or you are not honest.
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Kamala Harris is not honest.
Joseph P. Duggan concludes:
Five years after her false accusation of murder, Harris still has not retracted the falsehood. The tweet remains on Harris’s current X account.
Eric Holder, who vetted her choices for running mate, could tell her the truth about Michael Brown.
Before there’s another ritual of deception concerning that death 10 years ago in Ferguson, it’s time for Harris to speak the truth.
She won’t. She doesn’t care about the truth. She has never cared about the truth. She is a fundamentally dishonest person; she lies when it suits her, she lies when there is no reason to lie, she lies even when the truth would help her. She lies as reflexively as she breathes, and she will never stop.
That is just one of many reasons that Kamala Harris must never be president of the United States.