Former President Donald Trump sent a shot across the bow of the Harris campaign on Friday, appearing on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” morning program to say that he is going back to an old haunt of Vice President Kamala Harris to challenge whether she was ever there at all.

“I’m going to do everything,” Trump said about his upcoming trip to McDonald’s, from working the fry machine to wearing the paper hat. “I’m going, because she lied” about having worked at the fast food chain as a young adult. Asked if he thought she ever worked there while attending school in California, Trump sounded confident. “I know she didn’t — we checked it out.”

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Conservative media figures have probed murky periods of Harris’s early years, seeking to assign a timeline to the bootstraps narrative she spins on the campaign trail. The Democratic candidate has repeatedly claimed she worked at McDonald’s during her college years to help pay her tuition, though copies of her resumé from that period in the 1990s do not list a position held by her at any franchise. In one case, a young Harris was asked to disclose any and all forms of employment she held as part of a job application. “Unless something comes up with something, we checked it out. She never worked there,” Trump insisted.

His search into Harris’s history wasn’t simply performed on Google, he went on. “We went to the store” she claimed to work at, he said, “and we talked with the manager, the manager had been there forever. You remember? ‘No, she never worked here,'” he claimed the McDonald’s boss told his staff. President Trump added that the mainstream media is failing in its responsibility to vet Harris’s story and that, if he made a similar lie, it would be international news. “If I said I’d worked at McDonald’s and it turned out not to be true, this would be on the front page of” the New York Times, he said.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GOING TO MCDONALDS!

"Oh I'm going — because she lied." pic.twitter.com/3jY2Ha1ER2

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 18, 2024

Cracks in the Harris-McDonald’s story began to appear earlier in September when Politico noted that the Harris campaign amended one of her first ads which originally said that she took the job at McDonald’s to “pay her way” through college. The ad was reintroduced to reflect that “she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money,” according to the outlet. The Beacon dug further, confirming that neither of Harris’s two memoirs – published in 2010 and 2019 – mention her brief stint under the golden arches. The summer job was similarly unmentioned in her 2009 book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” and Stacey Johnson-Batiste, who chronicled Harris’s rise for a 2021 autobiography, confirmed she had never heard about her subject taking a job at McDonald’s.

But the proverbial levee broke when the outlet obtained a copy of a young Harris’s job application from 1987, the year she would have completed her first year in college. At the time, Harris was in the middle of law school and applying for a position in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. Her employment history went into granular detail, even listing a month-long position at a stock brokerage, as the application required her to list every job she ever held over the past 10 years. There is no mention of McDonald’s.

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