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Screenshots: Kamala Harris Claims She Worked at McDonald’s—But Her 1987 Job Application Tells a Different Story

Did Kamala Harris ever work at McDonald’s and if so, did the job help her “put herself through college?” Those might not seem like important questions on the surface, but when you consider the Democrat presidential nominee has been using the claim to fluff her supposedly hard-knock background, the truth of the matter becomes just a bit more relevant.

Here’s how the Harris campaign has been describing the supposed stint at McDonald’s.

Early this month, Harris’s campaign said she used her McDonald’s wages to pay for college. “Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college,” campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said this month. A pro-Harris super PAC ad said she “work[ed] her way through school at McDonald’s.” And former president Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, joked that “she’ll break my record as president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.”

According to Harris, she “did fries” before moving over to work as a cashier, and that’s just the first part of the tale that doesn’t necessarily add up. The behind-the-counter dynamic at McDonald’s doesn’t typically have a specific person only cooking fries. With that said, it’s at least possible she labored at a unique McDonald’s that had her only cooking fries before moving over to be a cashier.

Two biographies written about Harris make no mention of the job, either. A 2021 memoir by Stacey Johnson-Batiste, Harris’s lifelong friend who grew up with her in California, does not mention McDonald’s anywhere in the text. Dan Morain, who authored Kamala’s Way: An American Life, told the Free Beacon he was “not aware” of her job at McDonald’s.

During Harris’s nomination speech at the Democratic National Committee earlier this month, which was framed by multiple news outlets as a “reintroduction,” she made no reference to McDonald’s. At a rally in Milwaukee that same week, Harris omitted any mention of the Golden Arches as well.

The Free Beacon also obtained a copy of Harris’s October 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. On that form, Harris, who was in law school at the time, listed several jobs—including a month-long clerical job at a stock brokerage—in a section that asked her to list every position she held in the last 10 years. McDonald’s is absent.

Harris lists three jobs on the application and five in total on an attached résumé, according to the documents, obtained through a public records request. Harris, who submitted the application as a second-year student at then-University of California, Hastings College of the Law, included granular life experience on her résumé—”extensive travel in India, Africa, [and] Europe” and “lived in Montreal, Canada for six years”—but not McDonald’s.

The previous owner of an Alameda McDonald’s that opened in 1982—one year before Harris would have worked there—did not respond to a request for comment.

The McDonald’s Corporation, which is proud of its 84-year history and employs a full-time archivist as its official historian, did not return several requests for comment. It has made no comment on Harris’s claims to have done the fries.

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D3F1ANT
D3F1ANT
5 months ago

Kamala LIED?! NO WAY!

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5 months ago

She will say and do anything needed to get what she wants! Flip, Flop, Flossie!

F. Tupp
F. Tupp
5 months ago

Kamala meant to say she at ate McDonalds.

James
James
5 months ago

 Kamala Devi Harris. She says she is running for U.S. President, yet fails to tell us that she is not qualified to be President. As an officer of the law, you’d think she had mastered Constitutional Law 101 that requires a candidate for President to be natural born (purpose: to eliminate Dual allegiance) Kamala’s problem is that she was born in Oakland, California in 1964 to a Jamaican father and Indian mother who had only been in the U.S. about six months on student visas. To make matters much worse, Kamala has jumped on the reparations bandwagon without revealing her Jamaican families Extensive SLAVE TRADE. Too many minder websites omit the above. The dissembler DISSEMBLES (Look up Eric Jon Phelps). Just like the Indonesian Soebarkah (Obama), Nimarata Nikki Randhawa (Nikki Haley), Vivek Ramaswamy, Bobby Jindal, They are technically foreign agent imposters there to mock you and The Constitution Their illegal presence is a mocking vivid sticking it right in your face in real time demonstration they are deconstructing your system of government! thus laughing at you. Any website and or writer that does not expose this DO NOT Trust! (there are a plethora of them set in place)

James
James
5 months ago

WARNING: This is yet another minder sensor website (with all the bells and whistles( pretending to present truth objectively whereas they just censored Kamala Harris and other foreign agent, critical info, pretending to qualify for President. Please decimate this far and wide as I am going to do !

James
James
5 months ago

This site is with the dissembler. They are minder tongue cutters quashing free speeck. Just warned others who have huge contact lists. rightj journalism should be run right out of town as they flee through a gauntlet of steel tipped boots kicking them all too hard in the ass