Kamala Harris has been claiming, somewhat suddenly, that she worked at McDonald’s to put herself through college. Everyone loves a candidate who can relate to real people, but this is a job that has been suspiciously omitted in all of her writings about her life. In fact it wasn’t until 2019 that she even first suggested the fast food job got her through college.
But it appears that her McDonald’s job might be fictitious. Free Beacon has done the hard work of trying to track down proof that she worked there and they can’t find any.
They have found a resume from the 80’s and a 1987 job application for a law clerk position, and no McDonald’s is mentioned.
Here’s more on this from FB:
The first all-female audience ever on The Drew Barrymore Show was whooping and cheering for Kamala Harris, its guest of honor, this April when Barrymore’s sidekick, Ross Matthews, threw a softball at the vice president.
“I heard a rumor that you worked at McDonald’s?”
“I did. Yes, I did work at McDonald’s,” laughed Harris. “When I was at school … I did fries. And then I did the cashier.”
“I didn’t know that about you,” gasped Barrymore.
Neither did anyone who followed Harris’s long career in public life—that is, until she ran for president in 2019 and began to make the job a centerpiece of her biography.
Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she “was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s.”
McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as “her humble background.”
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