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:
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.
Because she knows 51% of Americans are stupid and will believe anything she says.