It’s not implausible for someone to have worked at McDonald’s when they were just starting out. The problem with such stories by politicians is that they’re often made up to sound like ‘ordinary folks’.

And the Kamala campaign has all but admitted that it’s trying to gaslight middle-class white women.

“Her campaign has real room to grow with non-college-educated white women repelled by Trump, who aides believe she can win if they feel she’s more middle class than radical left.”

That’s why she keeps falsely claiming she “grew up in a middle-class family”.

AOC infamously built her bio on claiming to have worked as a bartender when she was actually working for a leftist political organization.

Kamala’s claim about McDs struck a lot of people the same way. When Trump called her a liar, her campaign could have easily struck him down, instead the New York Times set out to back up her story and the campaign refused to talk to its own press agents.

This is what the New York Times went with instead.

But The New York Times interviewed a friend who had known Ms. Harris as a teenager and remained in touch with the family for years afterward. Wanda Kagan, a close friend of Ms. Harris’s when they attended high school together in Montreal, said she recalled Ms. Harris having worked at McDonald’s around that time.

Answering questions by email, Ms. Kagan said that Ms. Harris’s mother, who died in 2009, had told Ms. Kagan about the summer job years ago. Ms. Kagan said she herself had also worked at one of the fast-food chain’s many franchises in those years.

“That’s what us regular folks did,” Ms. Kagan wrote. Still, she indicated that it had not been a frequent topic of conversation for Ms. Harris. “We didn’t talk much about our McDonald’s days back then,” she said.

It’s like Fight Club. Rule number one is you never talk about it if you’re one of those “regular folks”.

Wanda Kagan is “regular folks” in the sense that they both went to a high-end prep school in Montreal. She works in the Academic Affairs Directorate in Montreal.

The New York Times, after investigating the story, can only manage to come up with an old friend of hers (who attended the DNC as her guest) claiming that she heard Kamala’s mother tell her that.

Truly a fact checking farce. The paper would have done better not to even run the story.