Harris Campaign Trivia

Shakespeare wrote "to be or not to be. That is the question." The question now is "did she or didn't she?" but perhaps should be "and does it matter"?

The Telegraph reports that 

According to Quentin Fulks, her deputy campaign manager, she worked at a branch of McDonald's in Alameda, California during the summer of 1993, while she was a student at Howard University....

Ms. Harris did not refer to the job in either of her memoirs, published in 2010 and 2019, and appears to have first revealed the job during a rally in Las Vegas in 2019.

The Telegraph indicates that McDonald's has been striving to stay out of the controversy, apparently instructing employees to refuse comment. The corporation did remark "We and our franchisees don't have records for all positions dating back to the early 80s." However, "according to Quentin Fulks, her deputy campaign manager, she worked at a branch of McDonald's in Alameda, California during the summer of 1993, while she was a student at Howard University."

Consequently, it is unclear whether Kamala Harris worked at the fast-food "restaurant" as she said she did. Not unclear, however, is that still

Former President Trump appears to be sticking to his years long stance of declining to make his tax returns available to the public as the 2024 presidential campaign enters its final stretch.

With a little more than two months to go until Election Day, Trump has yet to release his most recent tax returns, while Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, has so far released 20 years’ worth of tax returns.

Trump’s decision during his initial White House run and subsequent presidency not to release tax returns bucked nearly 50 years of precedent established by President Nixon. The only other president not to make his full tax returns public during this period was Gerald Ford, who provided a tax summary.

It's roughly the same deal with their medical records as recently

the White House released medical records for Vice President Kamala Harris, with her physician describing her as being in "excellent health."

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has yet to release his medical records despite promising numerous times to do so. Trump previously released the results of a physical exam and memos on his health from his personal physicians.

After the rally, yet even three months after the attempt on the life of the ex-President, the Trump campaign "has refused to discuss his condition, release a medical report or records, or make the doctors who treated him available, leaving information to dribble out from Trump, his friends and family."

A week after the tragic incident, the campaign released a letter from right-wing extremist Ronny Jackson, now a member of the US House of Representatives from Texas and Trump acolyte, and formerly White House physician to Trump and Barack Obama He claimed

ABC News noted Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came "less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear."

The bullet track, he said, "produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. Three was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear." 

As to his credibility, this is the same Ronny Jackson who was investigated in March, 2021 by the Department of Defense Inspector General and 

After interviewing 78 witnesses and reviewing a host of White House documents, investigators concluded that Jackson, who achieved the rank of Rear Admiral, failed to treat his subordinates with dignity and respect, engaged in inappropriate conduct involving the use of alcohol during two incidents and used sleeping medication during an overseas trip that raised concerns about his ability to provide medical care to the President and other top officials, according to the report.

The report also notes that the investigation into Jackson “was limited in scope and unproductive” as White House counsel under Trump insisted on being present at all interviews of current White House Medical Unit employees, which had a “potential chilling effect” on the probe.

Sometimes a zebra does change its spots, though evidently not with the congressman as last August

Newly released video shows U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo, being slammed to the ground by police and angrily confronting a state trooper with profanity during a hectic altercation late last month at a rodeo outside Amarillo.

“You are a fucking full-on dick!” Jackson told the trooper after being brought off the ground, according to bodycam footage provided by the Department of Public Safety. “You better recalculate, motherfucker!”

DPS Trooper Cade Young repeatedly told Jackson that multiple people asked him to step aside so EMS could respond to a medical emergency. Jackson, a physician to two presidents, disagreed and continued to confront Young on the sidelines of the event, with bystanders physically restraining Jackson as he lunged toward the trooper, jabbing his finger and yelling profanities.

“I’m gonna call the governor tomorrow and I’m gonna talk to him about this shit because this is fuckin’ ridiculous,” Jackson told Young at one point. “Fuckin’ ridiculous.”

Seems nice. The odds that Donald Trump, who was released from the hospital almost as soon as he was admitted, actually was struck by a bullet rather than shrapnel probably is about as great as that Kamala Harris did actually work at McDonald'. Somewhere between very unlikely and maybe seems about right. 

The validity of  Harris' purported stint dishing out french fries is far less important than a reported assassination attempt which Donald Trump weaponized with a defiant "Fight!" seconds after being shot/not shot. And we still don't know the status of the Republican candidate's medical condition, nor his tax status or business entanglements with foreign nations.

It probably doesn't matter that we cannot be certain that Kamala Harris was telling the truth about a minimum wage (or thereabouts) job she held while at law school. By contrast, Donald Trump is a Nazi sympathizer.

James Carville’s reaction to Trump at McDonald’s: He’s doing a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden pic.twitter.com/GbqkALC2yX

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 21, 2024

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