Vice President Kamala Harris's responsive social media accounts, which have more than 1.3 million followers, have been found by online fact-checkers and CNN to repeatedly spread false information about former President Donald Trump's campaign.
CNN analysis Several posts from the @KamalaHQ X account last month shared examples of how Harris' team used “false or misleading” video edits and subtitles to misrepresent what President Trump and his allies said.
All of these posts were denounced by an anonymous X account named @KamalaHQLies. page This serves to hold Harris' official page accountable for spreading misinformation.
A video posted on August 17 of Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania featured language that made it seem as if the Republican didn't know where he was.
“Trump: Can we have North Carolina? (He's in Pennsylvania),” the Harris campaign captioned a video of the former president asking the quoted question while pointing at someone at the side of the podium.
The same video is Posts “Donald Trump is lost and confused,” the Kamala HQ Instagram account captioned the post.
The post has been viewed more than 4.3 million times, garnered over 24,000 likes on X and nearly 48,000 likes on Instagram, all based on false claims.
The full video of the Wilkes-Barre rally can be seen as President Trump pointing to the same spot to the left at the beginning of his speech to thank a group of supporters who had traveled from North Carolina.
“Thank you so much, North Carolina,” he said.
Given the overall circumstances, it is clear that Trump never thought he was in North Carolina, and there is no evidence to suggest he was “lost or confused” about the location of the rally.
“The Harris campaign declined to comment on this post by @KamalaHQ,” CNN's Daniel Dale wrote.
Another video posted by Kamala HQ on Thursday also suggested Trump was confused about where he was.
“Trump: 'Pennsylvanians, remember this when you go to vote' (he's in Arizona),” Harris' team captioned an eight-second video of the former president addressing a crowd in Tucson, saying, “Pennsylvanians, remember this when you go to vote. Just remember this: A 2,000% increase. It's a small thing…”
The Kamala HQ Instagram account also posted the video, along with an overlay that read, “Trump forgets what state he's in (again),” and the caption, “His health is rapidly deteriorating.”
Again, Trump's comments made sense in their full, unedited context.
of The Washington Postof Live Stream At the beginning of the rally, Trump referenced a small town in Pennsylvania that had seen its Haitian immigrant population grow 2,000 percent under Kamala Harris' administration, and was seen speaking about immigration, one of the biggest concerns of Arizona voters.
“So, Pennsylvanians, remember this when you go to vote: A 2,000 percent increase. This is a small town and all of a sudden thousands of people came out to vote,” Trump said.
KamalaHQLies also posted the video with some additional context.
The Harris campaign again declined to comment to CNN about the post.
Another misleading edit from the account was Trump's Notorious The comment was made in reference to the 2017 Charlottesville riots, but it has been repeatedly taken out of context over the years.
“In 2017, when neo-Nazis chanted 'The Jews cannot replace us' and murdered an innocent woman in Charlottesville, Trump says he 'did nothing wrong,'” Kamala HQ said in a post on Friday.
of Full Video The comments indicate that Trump was in fact saying that he was not wrong to say “very fine people on both sides” after the Charlottesville riots, a comment that was mistakenly said to condone the white supremacists who were there that day.
June Fact Check A Snopes investigation even acknowledged that “no, Trump did not call neo-Nazis and white supremacists 'very fine people.'”
Trump specifically complained that ABC News' David Muir was an unfair moderator during Tuesday's presidential debate for not challenging how Harris described comments made in Charlottesville, according to CNN.
I think [Muir] He corrected me 11 times. Eleven times, I don't think he had any right to correct me at all. He never corrected me. Project 2025, I have no idea. It has nothing to do with me. He didn't correct me. He knew it. I did nothing wrong in Charlottesville. Just read one more sentence of my statement and you'll see that. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse (Watters), all of them, they, Greg Gutfeld, they all took it and corrected it over and over again. But they continue to tell the same lie.
The Harris campaign actually released a statement about the post, defending their deceptive edit of the video, saying that Ms. Harris “has done nothing wrong” in describing “very fine people” who did the things described in the tweet.
A statement from the campaign said, “There's nothing wrong with that.” murder Heather HeyerA 22-year-old man was fatally injured. James Alex Fields Jr. He Driven He drove his car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville.
Kamala HQ also published misleading and inaccurate statements by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Trump's running mate.
The caption of a nine-second video posted to the account on Thursday said that when asked if he would consider privatizing VA health care, Vance replied, “I think I would consider it.”
In reality, Vance says, “I would consider it,” before being cut off by a deceptive edit from the Harris campaign.
Complete video Vance appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show and explained that veterans will be given the choice between private healthcare or public healthcare through the VA.
I would consider giving veterans more choices. Donald Trump was really good on this, but he doesn't get enough credit for this particular innovation. Right? So let's say you're in a rural hospital. The nearest VA is 120 miles away. Why should we make our veterans drive two and a half hours to that VA facility when we can get good, cheap care right near our home? Right? So I think we should give our veterans options and choice. You know, I think there are areas where the VA actually does a very good job, so I'm not going to say we should abolish the whole thing. I say we should give people more choices, save money in the process, and give our veterans more options.
“This is a complete lie by hackers from Kamala HQ,” KamalaHQLies said.
The Harris campaign again defended their post, telling CNN, “Vance is suggesting he would consider privatizing VA functions. This is not misleading. Our caption did not say 'the entire VA health care system.'”
However, they did not acknowledge the misquote in the caption.
A spokesman for Vance told CNN that the Harris campaign was “lying.”
According to the vice presidential candidate's communications director, William Martin, Vance does not want to privatize the VA's “functions” because he “personally relied on the VA for many years after leaving the Marines.”
“Throughout the entire exchange, Senator Vance has made it very clear that he will not privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs,” Martin explained.
Other posts from Kamala HQ in the past few weeks include: Some Trump's repeated misleading claims about his support for Project 2025 Denied.
When CNN's Kamala HQ confronted Trump on September 5, he also defended another of Trump's comments about tax cuts. post:
“Trump has told wealthy donors that he plans to make tax cuts for the ultra-rich 'permanent' and cut their taxes 'further',” the campaign said, releasing a 13-second video in which the Republican says, “The fifth pillar of my plan is making the Trump tax cuts permanent. These are massive, biggest-ever, permanent tax cuts. And we're going to cut them even more.”
Full speech Revealed Editors at Kamala HQ cut the footage just before the former president explained his intentions for policies such as the tip tax and the repeal of Social Security benefits that were clearly not intended for the upper class.
“And this wasn't just a speech to wealthy Trump donors,” Dale wrote to CNN. “This was a speech to the nonpartisan Economic Club of New York, whose membership includes a wide range of area business executives. Some of the attendees were wealthy Trump donors, but others were not.”
Dale also said the Harris campaign Advertised She became a favorite among CEOs the next day.
“Taxes on tips and taxes on Social Security are not new,” the Harris campaign told CNN.
Another attack on comments Vance made at the International Association of Firefighters portrayed him as “anti-union.”
“Vance: Democrats love to attack Republicans as anti-union, and sometimes that fits perfectly,” the Aug. 29 post said, along with a five-second clip of the senator saying the phrase before cutting away.
Complete video It shows some brazenly distorted editing by the Harris campaign.
“A lot of Democrats want to attack Republicans as anti-union, and sometimes that's true, but that's not me or Donald Trump,” Vance said, highlighting policies he supports to better support firefighters.
In response to a CNN inquiry, the Harris campaign again defended the post, calling it a “direct quote from J.D. Vance.”
The campaign added that the post was “intended to send a clear message that Vance acknowledges that the Republican Party has an anti-union history.”
They also lied about statements made by Jack Posobiec, a senior editor at Human Events and a Trump supporter, claiming that Posobiec was talking about Project 2025, when in fact he was not.
“Project 2025 Trump operative: Ideas without power are nothing. We must use power. We must take power,” Kamala HQ captioned an Aug. 28 post of a 12-second video in which Posobiec says, “If you have all the power and no ideas, you're a tyrant. But ideas without power are nothing. They're nothing at all. We must use power. We must take power.”
Posobiec thanked the campaign for the “free advertising” for his latest book. The Unhumans: The Secret History of the Communist Revolution (And How to Crush It):
“Kamala HQ made some inspiring remarks,” he said on X. “But nowhere in this clip is Project 2025 mentioned. This is an interview about the New York Times bestselling book, 'Unhumans'!”
Harris' campaign told CNN that the author's comments in the interview were “part” of a Trump-backed “Project 2025” plan to fire public servants who are not loyal to the Republican candidate if he is re-elected.
“Mr Posobiec was not talking here about firing any civil servants, and nevertheless, the post specifically asserts that Mr Posobiec was talking about Project 2025, which in fact he was not,” Dale concluded.
