Time magazine tries defending Harris by fact-checking Trump — then forced into all-time correction



During Tuesday's debate, President Donald Trump said that Kamala Harris "wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison," adding, "This is a radical left liberal that would do this."

The liberal media dutifully rushed to defend the vice president, claiming that Trump's assertion was false — which it is not. In doing so, misleading publications like the New Yorker not only drew greater attention to Harris' desire to mutilate illegal aliens' genitals using taxpayer money, but to their own propagandic nature.

Time magazine, another publication whose writers evidently underestimated Harris' radicalism, was among the offenders. Confronted with the truth of Trump's claim, it had to issue an embarrassing correction Wednesday.

'The truth was too crazy for the fact checkers.'

On Monday, CNN's investigative outfit KFile unearthed an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire completed in 2019 by then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), which revealed several of Harris' extreme positions and goals.

Harris indicated that she supported the decriminalization of all drug possession for personal use; statehood for Washington, D.C.; the repeal of the Hyde Amendment; ending illegal alien detention facilities; and cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding.

Harris also vowed to ensure that "federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained."

Time magazine, which has previously concern-mongered about "disinformation" and "fake news," originally reported:

The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and falsely claimed that Harris 'wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'

The publication has since updated the article to read:

Trump glowered and grimaced, spewing old grievances and strange new attacks. The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and claimed that Harris 'wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'

The latest version contains a corrective note at the very bottom admitting that Time's original story "mischaracterized as false Donald Trump's statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting 'transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'"

"As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants," added Time's correction.

Donald Trump Jr. noted on X, "Unreal."

Former presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said, "Turns out the truth was too crazy for the fact checkers."

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted, "Kamala, TIME, and ABC collectively got owned on one simple, easily confirmed fact-check. This is fantastic."

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Even CNN's Erin Burnett shocked by unearthed evidence of Kamala Harris' radicalism: 'She supports that?'



The latest national New York Times/Siena College poll revealed that whereas likely voters feel confident they know who President Donald Trump is, they are still largely unsure about Kamala Harris, her policies, and her plans.

KFile, an investigative outfit at CNN, unearthed a document this week that provides several alarming insights into what the Democratic candidate might actually believe in, including taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens and federal prisoners, eliminating the Hyde Amendment, statehood for Washington, D.C., decriminalizing crack cocaine for personal use, and cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding.

These revelations, contained within an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire completed in 2019 by then-Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), have renewed concerns about the Democrat's radicalism and even managed to surprise CNN's Erin Burnett.

In the questionnaire, Harris vowed to:

  • End private prisons and illegal alien detention facilities;
  • "Support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use";
  • Slash detention in illegal alien detention facilities by at least 50% and halt funding for the construction of new facilities;
  • End the use of ICE detainers;
  • "Pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million-plus people living in our communities";
  • Seek a federal moratorium on the death penalty;
  • "Fight" to make Washington, D.C., a state;
  • "Require states with a history of unconstitutionally restricting access to abortion to pre-clear any new law or practice with the Justice Department before it can be enacted";
  • Repeal the Hyde Amendment and "ensure that all insurers are required to provide full reproductive healthcare services"; and
  • Ensure that "federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained."

The ACLU told KFile that the questionnaire, which has gone relatively unnoticed for years, has been live since 2019. However, the page source for the document — dated August 2024 — indicates that it was uploaded after President Joe Biden was swapped out of the race for Harris. Questionnaires filled out by other 2020 candidates were reportedly not similarly available.

'My values have not changed.'

When confronted with the findings in the questionnaire, particularly about the future border czar's stated intention to decrease funding to ICE, the titular host of "Erin Burnett OutFront" told KFile's Andrew Kaczynski Monday, "That's pretty incredible on its own."

Burnett had Kacyznski repeat himself after he noted Harris supported taxpayer-funded sex-change mutilations for detained illegal aliens.

"Taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants? She actually said she supports that?" said the shocked talking head.

"She both wrote and answered in the affirmative when she was asked that," said Kacyzsnki. "She said she also supported it for federal prisoners."

Kaczynski indicated that Harris had been "trying to get to the left of Bernie Sanders, she was trying to get to the left of Elizabeth Warren" in the 2019 Democratic primary.

"It's pretty incredible stuff," concluded Burnett.

When pressed about whether Harris continues to support these positions — having just recently told CNN's Dana Bash that "my values have not changed" — the Harris campaign told KFile, "The vice president's positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris administration."

The campaign added, "As president, she will take that same pragmatic approach, focusing on common-sense solutions for the sake of progress."

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Liberal ProPublica hits St. Jude charity that provides free health care for kids for not paying parents' mortgage and car payments



The nonprofit ProPublica has published an investigative report detailing how St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a mammoth fundraiser, provides free medical treatment for children, and yet does not pay for every single financial burden incurred by families struggling to care for their sick children.

St. Jude, based in Mepmhis, Tennessee, is the largest health care charity in the United States. The hospital costs an estimated $3.3 million per day to operate, but patients are not charged for the care they receive. Instead, the majority of the nonprofit's funding comes from generous donors, including celebrities and well-known public figures who feature in the hospitals advertisements.

ProPublica reports that St. Jude was recognized as the 10th-best children's cancer hospital by U.S. News & World Report and raised a record $2 billion last year — nearly as much as the other nine hospitals ahead of it raised combined. The report notes the hospital currently has another $5.2 billion in reserves, "a sum large enough to run the institution at current levels for the next four and a half years without a single additional donation."

Because of the overwhelming generosity of its donors, St. Jude promises that "families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live."

But the report focuses on the expenses St. Jude does not cover, including "housing, travel and food costs that fall outside the hospital's strict limits."

While families may not receive a bill from St. Jude, the hospital doesn't cover what's usually the biggest source of financial stress associated with childhood cancer: the loss of income as parents quit or take leave from jobs to be with their child during treatment. For many families, the consequence is missed payments for cars, utilities and cellphones. Others face eviction or foreclosure because they can't keep up with rent and mortgage payments.

Parents at St. Jude have exhausted savings and retirement accounts, borrowed from family and friends or asked other charities for aid. ProPublica identified more than 100 St. Jude families seeking financial help through the online fundraiser GoFundMe, with half of the campaigns started in the past two years. We counted scores of other events like concerts and yard sales organized to help St. Jude families in need.

ProPublica reported that in the last five fiscal years, roughly half of the $7.3 billion St. Jude raised funded research and care for patients. About 30% of that figure covered operating expenses and the remaining 20%, $1 out of every $5 gifted, was put into the reserve fund.

"Further, ProPublica found, a substantial portion of the cost for treatment is paid not by St. Jude but by families' private insurance or by Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income families," the outlet reported.

"About 90% of patients are insured, bringing in more than $100 million in reimbursements for treatment a year. If a family shows up at St. Jude without insurance, a company hired by the charity helps them find it. St. Jude does cover copays and deductibles, an unusual benefit."

In a written response to ProPublica, lawyers for St. Jude and its fundraising arm, the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, highlighted how the research team at St. Jude is committed to finding cures for deadly childhood diseases and pointed out thousands of sick children have been treated for free over the years.

"This often comes as a huge relief to families who often expect to sell all their belongings just so their children can get the medical care and treatment they need to save their lives," the lawyers wrote. "St. Jude and ALSAC understand that this arrangement cannot cover all financial obligations of all families, nor can St. Jude or ALSAC shield families from all the financial and emotional effects" of a child's illness.

"ProPublica should be celebrating St. Jude and ALSAC for their commitment to finding cures, saving children's lives, and optimizing patient outcomes," the lawyers wrote.

The report received a fair amount of backlash on social media from readers who thought ProPublica was criticizing the charity unfairly.

Here\u2019s an investigation into the dark side of a free hospital that treats children at no charge, and the dark side is that it doesn\u2019t also pay their parents salaries or mortgage repayments https://www.propublica.org/article/st-jude-hoards-billions-while-many-of-its-families-drain-their-savings\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/2Ioo08Z0mM

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) 1636725607

So ProPublica wrote this terrible hit piece on St. Jude's because while the hospital provides life-saving medical care for children, it does not provide a safety net for families. Why don't ProPublica's wealthy donors step in to cover those costs? https://www.propublica.org/article/st-jude-hoards-billions-while-many-of-its-families-drain-their-savings\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/nP1VEcza7N

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) 1636732492

There\u2019s a Pro Publica hit piece on St. Jude today that seems completely crazy to me. I won\u2019t dignify with link. Says \u2014 among other things \u2014 that, sure, St Jude won\u2019t bill you a single cent ever but \u2026 won\u2019t make up for loss of work if you have to quit your job to care for kid.

— Geoff Calkins (@geoff_calkins) 1636726915

St. Jude's is one of the only children's hospitals that covers housing/travel/food. I have some issues w/their fundraising practices, but I don't think it's fair to hang this on them when it's a huge problem that probably can only be addressed w/legislation like paid leave...pic.twitter.com/BSk3PGJZ1y

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) 1636731458

But following ProPublica's reporting, St. Jude announced a "dramatic expansion" of the financial assistance it will provide to parents and other relatives during their child's stay at the hospital.

"Among the most significant changes are increasing travel benefits to two parents instead of one and covering regular trips to Memphis for siblings and other loved ones. St. Jude's letter to parents said the changes take effect Nov. 15," ProPublica reports.

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