The social media account “Kamala HQ” on X (formerly Twitter), managed by Kamala Harris’s campaign, has been criticized for its “repeatedly deceptive” practices. The account, @KamalaHQ, has been accused of misleadingly editing and captioning videos to target GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Examples include taking Trump’s quotes on immigration out of context and misrepresenting his “very fine people on both sides” comment related to the Charlottesville rally, per CNN’s fact-checker, Daniel Dale.
The @KamalaHQ account, which often targets both Donald Trump and his prominent supporters, has been described by CNN as an “irreverent attack dog.” CNN’s fact-checking report highlights “eight examples of false or misleading video posts from the account since mid-August, including three from just this week.” Some of these inaccuracies and misrepresentations have been scrutinized and contested by the account @KamalaHQLies.
On August 17, the account misleadingly edited a video of former President Trump speaking at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to falsely suggest that he was confused about his location. “Trump: Would that be okay, North Carolina? (He is in Pennsylvania).” It included a six-second video clip in which Trump said, while pointing to his left, “Would that be okay, North Carolina? I don’t think so, right,” the post said with this caption: “Donald Trump is lost and confused.” However, the full video clip showed that Trump was pointing to supporters who had come to the Pennsylvania rally from North Carolina.
This week the account posted another video of the former president in which it insinuated that he did not know where he was when it said “Trump: ‘Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote’ (He is in Arizona).” And it shared just eight seconds of the clip where he said “So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote, okay, just remember this: 2,000% increase. This is a small —…”
However, the full clip showed that he did not forget where he was as he spoke about immigration to the Arizona audience, describing how a small Pennsylvania town has “experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.” He added: “So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote, okay, just remember this: 2,000% increase, this is a small town; of all a sudden they got thousands of people.”
Last week, the Harris-aligned account insinuated that the former president thought that the people who marched in Charlottesville and murdered a woman “did nothing wrong,” sharing a deceptively edited clip with this post: “Trump says ‘nothing was done wrong’ in Charlottesville in 2017 when neo-Nazis chanted ‘Jews will not replace us’ and killed an innocent woman” and it showed him talking to reporters in California when he said “…like on Project 2025, I have no idea about — had nothing to do with me, he didn’t correct her, he knew that. Charlottesville — nothing was done wrong.”
Yet, the full clip noted: “I think he (Muir) corrected me 11 times. Of the 11 times, I don’t think he had the right to correct me at all. Didn’t correct her once. Like on Project 2025, I have no idea about — had nothing to do with me, he didn’t correct her, he knew that. Charlottesville — nothing was done wrong. All you had to do is read my statement one more sentence and you would’ve seen that. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse (Watters), all of them, they — Greg Gutfeld — they all took that and they corrected it many times. But they keep coming with the same lies,” he said.
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