September 10 Debate
Lies are in red
ABC Debate Moderator David Muir Hosts Most Pro-Harris, Left-Wing Newscast https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2024/09/09/100-abc-debate-moderator-david-muir-hosts-most-pro-harris-left-wing
Of the Big Three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight — run by debate moderator David Muir — has been the most positive towards Harris and the most hostile to Trump.
MRC analysts reviewed all 100 campaign stories that aired on ABC’s World News Tonight from the day Harris entered the race (July 21) through September 6, including weekends. Our analysts found 25 clearly positive statements about Harris from reporters, anchors, voters or other non-partisan sources, with zero negative statements — none. That computes to a gravity-defying 100% positive spin score for the Vice President.
As for Trump, our analysts found just five clearly positive comments, vs. 66 negative statements, for a dismal 7 percent positive (93% negative) spin score.
ABC’s reporters and anchors either jumped in to criticize Trump themselves, or broadcast negative comments from non-partisan sources to impart a heavily negative spin to the former President’s coverage.
During these same weeks, both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News also delivered highly positive coverage for Harris, and mostly negative coverage for Trump, yet not as extreme as we found with ABC’s World News Tonight. Employing the same methodology, coverage of Harris was 94% positive on CBS, and 71% positive on NBC — historically good press, but not as good as the 100% positive press she received on ABC.
As for Trump, his coverage was 77% negative on CBS, and 86% negative on NBC — extremely hostile, but not as dreadful as the whopping 93% negative coverage he received on ABC.
(Also, in the Spin Room during the debate reporters were cheering and booing against Trump, not even trying to hide their bias, according to reporter Cabot Philips.)
ABC moderators pressed Trump for follow ups 6 times, Kamala 0 (lies/extremely dishonest or misleading statements are in red below)
ABC moderators “fact checked” Trump 5 times, Kamala 0
1st question: “are we better off than we were 4 years ago?”
Kamala: “So, I was raised as a middle-class kid,” [not according to the New York Times …”an extroverted American teenager who had moved to Montreal from California at age 12… Eventually the family settled on the top floor of a spacious Victorian home in an affluent neighborhood bordering Westmount, one of Canada’s wealthiest districts.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/world/canada/kamala-harris-montreal.html] and then spoke for two minutes about her economic “plans,” ignoring the question completely. Unlike numerous questions in which the moderators demanded an answer of Trump, they asked no follow-up of Harris.
Harris boasts of being the tie-breaking votes for the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, which economists credit with setting off historically high inflation rates that exceeded 9%. The cost of a gallon of gasoline more than doubled during the Biden-Harris administration https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-average-price-data.htm and is still $1.29 higher than the day Trump left office. Staples such as groceries have risen nearly 20%, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SAF11 and new houses have more than doubled on her watch. https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2024/06/03/chairman-smith-americans-are-paying-twice-for-bidenflation/
MODERATOR: “there is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born”-->This “fact check” is WRONG!
Under Gov. Tim Walz, Babies Born Alive in Botched Abortions Were Left to Die. Then He Removed Reporting Requirements https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/06/under-gov-tim-walz-babies-born-alive-in-botched-abortions-were-left-to-die-then-he-removed-reporting-requirements/
In recent years, 5 born-alive abortion survivors were reported in 2015, 5 in 2016, 3 in 2017, 3 in 2018, 3 in 2019, and 5 in 2021, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. This information, however, will no longer be available; Walz repealed the requirement that practitioners of abortion report cases of born-alive infants and the measures taken to care for them. He repealed the legal requirement that doctors provide medical care to babies who survive abortions https://www.mccl.org/post/walz-s-record-on-life-elderly-newborns-and-others-pay-the-price-for-absolutism-and-neglect
It IS true that during a 2019 interview, then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, said, if a baby is born alive during a botched abortion, “I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother” about the child’s future…” The bill – which among other things would end a state rule that requires at least three physicians confirm “that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman’s death or impairment of her mental or physical health” and ends “the need to find that any such impairment to the woman’s health would be substantial and irremediable” – is currently tabled in Virginia’s legislature.” https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/ralph-northam-third-trimester-abortion/index.html
2013: lobbyist testified that even if a baby is alive, breathing on a table, and moving, “We believe that any decision that’s made” about administering treatment to the newborn “should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-official-defends-post-birth-abortions/
Whistleblowers have noted abortionists regularly allowed children to be born alive, then die by neglect. Jill Stanek, who served as a nurse at Christ Hospital in the Chicago area, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020 that in the event a baby was aborted alive, he or she received no medical assessments or care but was only given what my hospital called ‘comfort care.’ “One night, a nursing co-worker was transporting a baby who had been aborted because he had Down syndrome to our Soiled Utility Room to die—because that’s where survivors were taken. I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone, so I rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was 21 to 22 weeks old, weighed about half a pound, and was about the size of my hand.” https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Stanek%20Testimony.pdf
2019: then-Sen. Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which requires abortionists to provide potentially lifesaving care to babies born during botched abortions. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00058.htm There is no federal requirement to provide medical care to an infant born during an abortion. As governor of Minnesota, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz signed a bill that removed a requirement that abortionists “preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.” https://www.senate.mn/omnibus and https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/70/laws.4.56.0#laws.4.56.0 and https://www.house.mn.gov/hjvid/93/896884
277 babies were born alive during abortions.Only 8 states require abortionists to report infants born alive during a botched abortion (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas.). Two states—Walz’s Minnesota and Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan—repealed those requirements. Abortionists are not known as for being conscientious about reporting their own botched abortions. https://www.frc.org/bornalive
Numerous Democratic lawmakers have introduced bills to legalize “perinatal death,” which an official analysis confirmed would bring about the “unintended” legalization of infanticide. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223 and https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223
Kamala: Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We're not taking anybody's guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.”
OK, so I guess you’ve changed your position now? [this is the first she is saying it since…→]
2019: “We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” she said. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/gun-safety-forum-live-updates-las-vegas-n1060911#ncrd1061751 and watch https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1833899425653244281
Trump: She was big on defund the police. Harris: That's not true. [mouthed, not audible]
2020: “we need to reimagine how we are creating safety. For too long, the status quo thinking has been we get more safety by putting more cops in the street…well, that’s wrong.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-praised-defund-the-police-movement-in-june-2020-radio-interview/ar-BB1qFck6
Bailed out BLM rioters [who committed crimes and were put in jail by wait for it police] Free To Kill: Here are the ‘murderers & rapist’ freed by Kamala-backed bail fund as ‘domestic abuser kills driver weeks after release’ https://www.the-sun.com/news/3621948/kamala-harris-minnesota-freedom-fund-murder-george-howard/
Kamala:” Let's remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing antisemitic hate, and what did the president then at the time say? There were fine people on each side.”
Full text: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/full-text-trump-comments-white-supremacists-alt-left-transcript-241662 “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”
When asked if he meant the media was treating white nationalists unfairly, Trump clarified that in no way was he complimenting any of the racist protesters: “No, no. There were people in that rally — and I looked the night before — if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people — neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them,” Trump explained. “But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest — because I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country — a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country.”
Even SNOPES debunked this! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
Kamala: “Donald Trump the candidate has said in this election there will be a bloodbath, if this -- and the outcome of this election is not to his liking.”
full quote: “We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole… That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars. They’re building massive factories.”
Merriam-Webster’s definition of the word bloodbath: “a major economic disaster.”
montage of media using the word “bloodbath” https://adrienneross.substack.com/p/montage-media-using-bloodbath-ripping-trump
Again debunked: https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1769373681552064748
Kamala: “It is well known that he admires dictators, wants to be a dictator on day one according to himself.” https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/24/trump-dictator-day-one/
TRUMP: I love what I do because we are going to have … we are going to make our country greater than ever before. And … (crowd applauding) … that is so important. It's so important. We are going to do things. We're gonna close the border, Day One. The border gets closed. … (crowd applauding) … And Day One and a Half, we drill. You know we drill, baby, drill. Drill. Drill. Drill. … (crowd applauding louder) … And probably on Day Two we'll get rid of this ridiculous electric car mandate … (crowd continuing to applaud)
HANNITY: We almost have to go to a break. I want to go back to this one issue though, because the media has been focused on this and [are] attacking you. Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody
TRUMP: Except for Day One. HANNITY: Except for …
TRUMP: (smiling and pointing at Hannity) Look, he's going crazy. Except for Day One.
HANNITY: Meaning? TRUMP: I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill.
HANNITY: That's not … that's … that's not … that's not "retribution."
TRUMP: No no. I'm gonna be … I'm gonna be, you know he keeps, we love this guy.
HANNITY: (laughing) TRUMP: He says, "You're not gonna be a dictator, are you?" I said no, no, no … other than Day One. We're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator, OK? https://rumble.com/v3zv5nd-president-trump-town-hall-with-hannity-december-5th-2023-maga.html
Trump's remarks, when viewed in their full context, came as he pointed and smiled at Hannity and clarified that his usage of the term "dictator" — which came from Hannity's own reading of reporting and remarks made in the news media — referred to two items: Trump's policies regarding the U.S.-Mexico border and the drilling of oil. "After that, I'm not a dictator, OK?," Trump said, laughing and then agreeing verbally just seconds later when Hannity said Trump was only referencing his own policy proposals.
MODERATOR: President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country
Cities nationwide not reporting crime data to FBI https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/cities-nationwide-not-reporting-crime-data-to-fbi/
In 2022, 31% of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI's national database after transitioning to a new data collection system, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/15/see-if-police-in-your-state-reported-crime-data-to-the-fbi
Contrary to Media Myth, U.S. Urban Crime Rates Are Up The FBI’s flawed statistics hide the disturbing results of the defund-the-police movement since 2020 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/contrary-to-media-myth-u-s-urban-crime-rates-are-up-violence-cities-9ce714f6
Kamala: “Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression” (COVID)
Kamala: “Trump left us the worst public health epidemic in a century” (COVID, plus he got us the vaccine, which you said publicly you’d refuse to take, then tried to mandate it to millions of Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0 and https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-announce-additional-vaccine-mandates-he-unveils-new-covid-strategy-n1278735)
Her statement implies that Trump was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, a pandemic that originated in communist China in what many experts say was a lab accident. The coronavirus spread to every corner of the world within short period of time. More Americans died with COVID-19 under the Biden-Harris administration than the Trump administration even though COVID-19 vaccines have been available for the entire time that Biden-Harris have been in office.
The CDC reported back in January that on January 20, 2021, at 1:16PM, there were 400,306 deaths recorded in the U.S. from the coronavirus. Biden officially became president of the United States at noon on that day. https://web.archive.org/web/20210121045133/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days Since then, the number of people who have died from coronavirus under Biden’s watch is now greater than 400,306. [AS OF DECEMBER 2021] https://web.archive.org/web/20211217230303/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
Kamal: “I made that very clear in 2020. I will not ban fracking.”
2019: “There's no question I’ m in favor of banning fracking “ endorsed a nationwide ban on oil and gas fracking, which would cost tens of thousands of jobs and cause power outages like those that often occur in her home state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VNkA1CYC8k
2020 debate w/ Mike Pence: Harris never stated that she would not ban fracking; she said that Biden would not ban fracking. “Joe Biden will not end fracking,” Harris said. “He has been very clear about that.” https://www.debates.org/voter-education/debate-transcripts/vice-presidential-debate-at-the-university-of-utah-in-salt-lake-city-utah/ and https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1829338222352101688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1829338222352101688%7Ctwgr%5Eb1ea84200d32178011de2f12b8fc4edd134e49cd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fkamala-lies-about-what-she-has-said-regarding-her-support-for-banning-fracking
Kamala: “Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War” (she says the day before 9/11, also Pearl Harbor? Cold War? See “political violence” chapter)
Kamala: “In his Project 2025 there would be a national abortion—a monitor that would be monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages [the Harris-Walz campaign has claimed in TV spots that Trump has endorsed “requiring the government to monitor women’s pregnancies.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuOOfpDyWg]
He has said repeatedly that he would not do this; he was already president and he did not do this. He gave the power of abortion back to the people via the states, so this issue is settled. Also, Project 2025 is not his policy platform.
Trump removed the Republican Party platform’s historic commitment to passing a Human Life Amendment, aspirational as it was, and has repeatedly said he opposes any further national legislation on the issue. “It’s the vote of the people now,” Trump said at the debate.
Project 2025—which is not Trump’s platform—contains no such provision. Presumably, Harris is wrenching out of context its reasonable proposal that states report abortion statistics accurately. The Biden administration’s most recent annual report on abortion—known as the Abortion Surveillance—excludes statistics from four states including the most populous state: California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7209a1.htm
Project 2025 calls on the federal government “to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method.” The government would “ensure that [state] statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion.” That’s a far cry from a “government monitor” peeping in on women’s ultrasounds.
Kamala on women having a miscarriage being “denied care” and “bleeding out in the car in the parking lot” and she had spoken to women “being denied care in an emergency room, because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail.”
No pro-life law in the nation prohibits doctors from caring for miscarriages. Even Project 2025, which Harris repeatedly invoked as extreme, states, “Miscarriage management or standard ectopic pregnancy treatments should never be conflated with abortion.” https://www.project2025.org/
14 states have a total abortion ban & 27 states have abortion bans based on gestational duration. 9 states and Washington D.C. do not restrict abortion based on gestational duration. This means that those states - Maine, Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, New Mexico, New Jersey - and DC allow abortion at any time during pregnancy, which includes up until birth. For those states with a “total ban” on abortion, each state has exceptions, with every single state including the exception “to save a pregnant person’s life”. This means that if the mother’s life is at risk, her life is priority.
Kamala: “nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion” https://www.abortionfinder.org/abortion-guides-by-state
Watch (or better yet, just pick up the phone and call a Planned Parenthood): girl confirmed she could get abortion at 34 weeks and that they “help” women this late in pregnancy “all the time” https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ykfENSnHT/?igsh=MWFsM3hqOXpqenZjaQ%3D%3D
2023: THE ABORTION ABSOLUTIST Warren Hern has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients as ever….has specialized in late term abortions for 5 decades https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/05/dr-warren-hern-abortion-post-roe/674000/
2022: the remains of 5 babies aborted late in their term or possibly after birth were found at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C. The Biden-Harris Justice Department advised the District of Columbia to destroy the evidence. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/30/dc-police-investigating-abortionist-foggy-bottom-clinic/
2013: Shelley Sella faced medical board sanctions after she committed an abortion at 35 weeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNqMbQ8s-Js&themeRefresh=1 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VpvdvPtgqw&t=12s
Abortionists admit that 3rd trimester abortions are done on healthy babies https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionists-third-trimester-abortions-healthy-babies/
2003: abortionist Charles Rossmann gave abortion pills to a woman who was past 30 weeks. https://www.walb.com/story/24691279/valdosta-doctor-arrested-extradicted-from-germany/
1981: Philadelphia Inquirer documented that in abortion facilities, “unintended live births are an everyday occurrence,” but are “hushed up” instead of treated as “a problem to be solved.”https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CHRG-OCONNOR/pdf/GPO-CHRG-OCONNOR-5-5.pdf
More than 56,000 abortions took place after 21 weeks, according to the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7209a1.htm
Kamala: “Well, I will tell you, I agreed with President Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Four presidents said they would, and Joe Biden did. And as a result, America's taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day we were paying for that endless war.” On Afghanistan:
[but thanks to you and Biden, we ARE now paying at least $200 billion to Ukraine, and how much to Israel? So 2 new “endless wars” in your administration]
Left billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban
Taliban took over country
People falling from planes taking off
13 dead Americans
…whose memorial at Arlington you didn’t even attend and then you bash Trump FOR going
As a result of the botched withdrawal, there are now 19 million Afghanistan women living in sexual servitude, can’t leave the house or speak in public, not going to school, forcibly married at age 11 to men 3x their age
Kamala: “And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.”
The U.S. has more than 3,000 soldiers spread across Iraq and Syria fighting ISIS and providing stability to the region. These soldiers have been attacked by Iranian-backed terrorists more than 200 times since Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel last year and at least 3 U.S. soldiers have been killed. The U.S. Navy is also operating in the region fighting against the Houthis, another Iranian-backed terrorist group.
Thousands of American troops are currently serving in combat zones across the Middle East. U.S. forces have also constantly bombarded the Houthis. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/12/07/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-and-president-pro-tempore-of-the-senate-regarding-the-war-powers-report/
” The U.S. launched Operation Prosperity Guardian in December 2023 in response to missile and drone attacks from the Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran, against commercial shipping, according to the Pentagon.” https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3621110/statement-from-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-ensuring-freedom-of-n/
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) also reported on Sept. 10 that its forces have destroyed five Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and two missile systems in Yemen. https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/1833701654098481396
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon during its operations against the Houthis, according to Navy Times. The strike group, alongside other U.S. Navy warships, fired $1.16 billion worth of munitions against the Houthis during its deployment, according to Business Insider. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/07/05/ike-csg-crew-receives-combat-action-ribbon-for-red-sea-fight/
Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin said that the claim is “technically true but misleading” and cited the deaths of three American soldiers who died in Jordan from a drone attack. “Technically true but misleading because thousands of U.S. troops are in harms way and hundreds have been under attack this year alone. Three died in January. I guess they weren’t in a ‘war zone’? Seems irrelevant,” Rogin said.https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3659809/3-us-service-members-killed-others-injured-in-jordan-following-drone-attack/
Kamala: “The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the former president would essentially be immune from any misconduct if he were to enter the White House again,” said Harris, while claiming Trump would weaponize government against his political enemies in a second term.
“The [p]resident enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the [p]resident does is official,” stated the court ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts. “The [p]resident is not above the law.” https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/07/scotus_immunity-7-1.pdf
“Would weaponize government against his political enemies?!” see “Trump Trials”
Kamala: “you negotiated with terrorists.”
You are actively negotiating with terrorists RIGHT NOW (Hamas)