Two leftist magazines became the latest rags to falsely fact-check former President Donald Trump’s assertions during the ABC News debate that Vice President Kamala Harris pledged to exploit taxpayer dollars on gender transitions for illegal aliens. Tellingly, one of those magazines is owned by a leftist Harris donor.
Time magazine, the leftist publication owned by one of Harris’s best supporters, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wrote in a Wednesday article that Trump “falsely claimed that Harris ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.’” Later in the day, Time Magazine dropped the word “falsely” and confessed in a correction that Harris had actually embraced this radical waste of taxpayer dollars during her first campaign for president in 2019.
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker, mimicked Time’s false fact-check but was even more brazen in doing so. She dubbed Trump’s transgender operation quote as “pretty memorable,” later adding, “What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point.”
The New Yorker has failed to issue a correction (as of 5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday), rightfully drawing the ire of critics on social media. Time took a different route, placing a correction note at the article’s end.
“The original version of this story mischaracterized as false Donald Trump's statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting ‘transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison,’” Time begrudgingly admitted in an Editor’s Note. “As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants.”
Before the debate even took place, CNN published an article highlighting Harris’s embrace of this radical position. Trump running mate and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), posted the article after former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill reacted to Trump’s attack on Harris.
What's even crazier is that Kamala Harris actually did support giving illegal aliens transgender surgeries (paid for by taxpayers). https://t.co/ssEw3wVEw0 https://t.co/LALMHt57dT
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 11, 2024
Conservatives are under attack. Contact Time at (letters@time.com)and The New Yorker at (800) 444-7570 and demand the publication stop coddling Vice President Kamala Harris.
