Harris campaign says McDonald’s visit a sign of ‘desperation,’ while Trump says Harris is lying when she said she worked there as a student
Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, got into the fray when he revealed that he too had worked at McDonald’s, and had even been named an Employee of the Month.
In a statement to the BBC, Harris spokesman Ian Sams called Trump’s stunt a sign of “desperation.”
“All he knows how to do is lie,” Sams said. “He can’t understand what it’s like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it.”
Harris’s campaign said the vice-president worked the cash register, ice cream machine and fry machine at a McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Alameda, Calif., in the summer of 1983, sending news outlets scrambling to fact-check the story.
The BBC said it spoke to an employee who remembered a lot of people who worked alongside him at the restaurant at that time but not Harris. However, the New York Times spoke to a high school friend of Harris, Wanda Kagan, who said she remembered her working at McDonald’s around that time.
More recently, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, wrote in his 2022 memoir, Breaking History, that when Trump contracted COVID-19 in 2020, ordering from the fast food chain signalled that he was on the way to recovery.
“I knew he was feeling better when he requested one of his favorite meals: a McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” Kushner wrote.
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