The debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris kept fact-checkers scrambling for days.
Multiple bombshell claims were made on both sides of the debate stage.
However, it was only Trump who faced real-time “fact-checks” from the partisan ABC News moderators while Harris was given a free pass to lie with impunity.
Perhaps one of the biggest claims was Trump’s allegation that Harris supports taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal* aliens currently being held in custody.
Not surprisingly, “fact-checkers” jumped on the claim as they scrambled to claim the remark was “disinformation.”
However, according to Fox News, the New York Times was forced to admit that Trump’s claim was “basically true.”
Trump sent “fact-checkers” into a panic by making the claim against Harris.
During the debate, as he knocked Harris on several policy issues, Trump said:
“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal* aliens that are in prison.”
Fox News noted:
“Except the context her fact-check provided just further confirmed Trump’s claim.
“In addition to quoting the ACLU questionnaire and Harris’ response, Stolberg wrote, ‘she said she supported using taxpayer funds to give access to gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary people, including those in immigration detention and prison.’”
Harris had originally shown her support for such procedures in her response to a 2019 ACLU questionnaire she filled out as a presidential candidate.
Not surprisingly, the Harris campaign immediately jumped into damage control mode.
Campaign officials have been scurrying to distance their candidate from such a radically progressive stance on the issue.
“That questionnaire is not what she is proposing or running on,” a Harris campaign spokesperson said.
WATCH:
NYT admits Harris supports funding migrant sex changes in fact-check ruling Trump's claim 'needs context' | Fox News
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) September 14, 2024
The paper acknowledged the 'wildest sounding attack line' from Tuesday's debate was 'basically true'
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Many pundits on both sides of the political aisle believe that neither Harris nor Trump moved the needle significantly in any one direction after the debate.
Nevertheless, most of the Democrat-friendly corporate media declared Harris to be the “winner” of the debate.
Polls after the debate showed Trump gaining ground in some battleground states.
Other polls, meanwhile, showed Harris staying even with the 45th president.
In the wake of their first debate, Trump and his campaign have declined to do any future debates before the election.
It is widely believed that the ABC News debate was rigged against Trump.
