CNN’s Burnett: Harris Repeatedly Slammed Trump’s Wall and Now Features It in Ads - CNN host Erin Burnett said on her show “OutFront” that their reporting found 50 times Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump’s border wall but then featured a section of that exact area of the wall on a campaign ad.
Burnett said, “The K File team scoured Kamala Harris’ tweets and statements going all the way back to 2017, and what they found was more than 50 instances of Harris slamming Trump’s border wall, but now new Harris campaign ads actually showcase that very wall.”
She continued, “K File’s Andrew Kaczynski joins me now. So Andrew, I mean, you and you all have gone through and scoured an incredible amount of material. Tell me more about what you found.”
Kaczynski said, “Yeah, that’s right. We found more than 50 of those those tweets criticizing the border while before she used that in her ad.”
He added, “What’s I think what’s also really remarkable. This is like, I mean, you heard her talking about it there, though, Trump’s wall in his campaign during his presidency, there was really no greater symbol of Trump’s presidency than the wall in the way that Democrats were attacking him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies. So we looked in that ad and if you look at it, that exact area of wall is in Sasabe, Arizona and that is a portion of wall that was actually built by Donald Trump.”
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Burnett said, “The K File team scoured Kamala Harris’ tweets and statements going all the way back to 2017, and what they found was more than 50 instances of Harris slamming Trump’s border wall, but now new Harris campaign ads actually showcase that very wall.”
She continued, “K File’s Andrew Kaczynski joins me now. So Andrew, I mean, you and you all have gone through and scoured an incredible amount of material. Tell me more about what you found.”
Kaczynski said, “Yeah, that’s right. We found more than 50 of those those tweets criticizing the border while before she used that in her ad.”
He added, “What’s I think what’s also really remarkable. This is like, I mean, you heard her talking about it there, though, Trump’s wall in his campaign during his presidency, there was really no greater symbol of Trump’s presidency than the wall in the way that Democrats were attacking him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies. So we looked in that ad and if you look at it, that exact area of wall is in Sasabe, Arizona and that is a portion of wall that was actually built by Donald Trump.”
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00:00Tonight, K-File investigates. In a new report you'll see first out front, the K-File team
00:06scoured Kamala Harris' tweets and statements going all the way back to 2017. And what they
00:12found was more than 50 instances of Harris slamming Trump's border wall. But now, new
00:19Harris campaign ads actually showcase that very wall.
00:24As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling
00:29weapons and drugs across the border.
00:32And on top of critical tweets, Harris also wrote in her 2019 book, quote, there was a
00:38bigger reason to oppose the border wall. A useless wall on the southern border would
00:42be nothing more than a symbol, a monument standing in opposition to not just everything
00:45I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built. How could I
00:50vote to build what would be little more than a monument designed to send the cold, hard
00:54message, keep out.
00:56So Andrew, I mean, you, you and you, you all have gone through, I mean, scoured an
01:01incredible amount of material. Tell me more about what you found.
01:04Yeah, that's right. We found more than 50 of those, those tweets criticizing the border
01:08wall before she used that in her ad. And I want people to take a look at just a few of
01:13what she said here. She called it wasteful, useless, a waste of taxpayer money, a vanity
01:19wall project, a wasteful border wall, a stupid wall, a medieval vanity project, and an unnecessary
01:26wall. And those are really just, I mean, there were more of this was like 10 or 50, but there
01:31was really, there was really a lot of this was the common refrain during the campaign.
01:34You read that quote where she said it was against everything that not only she stood
01:38for everything, America stood aboard, but and she brought this up a lot. Take a listen
01:42to just one instance of that in 2019.
01:46It's the president's vanity project.
01:48His multi-billion dollar vanity project called a wall is nothing more than a distraction
01:55from the fact that he actually hasn't focused on working people in America. He contrived
02:01a national crisis around his big distraction.
02:06All right. So you go through all of that, you've got all the tweets and yet all of a
02:11sudden in the ads, there's pictures of the wall. And then you went through to look at
02:15that wall. Like what is that specific wall that's in her campaign ads now? And you found
02:20something very interesting about this specific portion of the wall.
02:23And what's I think what's also really remarkable, this is like, I mean, you heard her talking
02:26about it there, the Trump's wall in his campaign during his presidency, there was really no
02:31greater symbol of Trump's presidency than the wall and the way that Democrats were attacking
02:35him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies. So we looked in that ad and that
02:39exact area of wall is in Sasabe or Sasabe, Arizona. And that is a portion of wall that
02:45was actually built by Donald Trump. It was built in an area where there was not previous
02:51wall is actually pretty controversial when they were building it at the time.
02:55She's using his wall that he built to say, look at what I did.
03:00And the other images of the wall, we weren't able to pinpoint, but there's there's telltale
03:05signs that that was a Trump wall because there's an anti-climbing plate on top that became
03:09popularized during the Trump years.
03:11It's really incredible reporting and important, right?
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