Dem Harris Slammed Over Deceptive Video

Kamala Harris

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris is facing backlash after several fact-checkers questioned a heavily edited video from her office that depicts Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as anti-women.

Fox News reports Harris, a California Democrat and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- which will decide if Kavanaugh gets a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court -- tweeted out the clip, which shows Kavanaugh mentioning the term “abortion-inducing drugs,” a term that Harris slammed as “a dog whistle for going after birth control.”

The tweet suggests that Kavanaugh seeks to take away “a woman’s constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions.”

The now-viral post has been retweeted more than 15,000 times and “liked” more than 30,000 times. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton parroted Harris on Wednesday, days after her claims were debunked.

But the fact checkers didn’t find Harris’ commentary or the edited video even remotely accurate. The Washington Post gave the senator four Pinocchios, its most egregious rating, saying the post ommitted crucial facts such as that Kavanaugh was actually quoting the terminology used by the plaintiff in a 2013 court case rather than stating his actual views.

“The issue at hand is Kavanaugh’s reference to ‘abortion-inducing drugs,’” the Post wrote. “A plain reading of his sentence, with its reference to 'they said,' suggests that he is merely reflecting the plaintiffs’ argument.”

“Harris’s decision to snip those crucial words from her first post on the video is certainly troubling,” the report added.

Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control. He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman’s constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake - this is about punishing women. pic.twitter.com/zkBjXzIvQI

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) September 7, 2018

Harris later tweeted out Kavanaugh’s answer, but didn’t acknowledge the falsehood in her previous tweets.

“But there was no acknowledgment by Harris that the original tweet was misleading,” the Post fact checker wrote. “She earns Four Pinocchios -- and her fellow Democrats should drop this talking point.”