Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris must believe Americans have just fallen out of a coconut tree. The woman lies more often than she breathes, and her latest whopper brought out some big guns who offered a correction.
During the September 10 debate with Donald Trump, Harris lied repeatedly, stating as fact long-debunked lies about things she claimed Donald Trump has done. She lied about him praising neo-Nazis at a Charlottesville rally (the “fine people” lie), and she lied about Trump threatening a “bloodbath” if he does not win the presidency (Trump spoke metaphorically about the auto industry).
But she also lied about herself, or, more specifically, about praise for her alleged economic plan, saying that her vision for the future was supported by economists everywhere. Harris continued this brazen deception during a Boomer-celebrity-packed Zoom call—of all things—hosted by Oprah Winfrey. During the “Unite for America” event, Harris claimed that Goldman Sachs, Moody’s, and the Wharton School of Business, along with “16 Nobel laureates” have “collectively determined after analyzing our plans [that] mine would strengthen the economy, his would weaken it.”
Harris must never have faced any consequences for her lying, because she seems absolutely fearless in telling the exact opposite of the truth.
Newsweek contacted the Wharton school for comment. An unidentified spokesperson said the school “did not find a positive impact on the economy from her plan in any future year.” By contrast, the staffer said, Trump’s plan would increase Gross Domestic Product “for a few years” but would lower it at the end of a ten-year cycle.
And what about Goldman Sachs? CEO David Solomon said Harris was really reaching when she said a report from his firm backed her economic plan. He said the report was from an independent analyst first of all, and that it found a tiny difference in predicted outcome between the economic plans of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. How small? Two-tenths of 1 percent.
Let’s see if social media users were surprised.
