Posted on 07/27/2024 6:04:59 AM PDT by MAGA2017
A CBS News affiliate came under fire after it claimed former President Trump had "falsely" accused Vice President Kamala Harris of helping raise money for a bail fund that helped violent criminals get out of jail.
"Trump falsely accuses Harris of donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, bailing out ‘dangerous criminals,'" CBS Minnesota affiliate WCCO posted on X on Thursday in a post that racked up nearly 7 million views in less than 24 hours.
The media outlet was referring to Trump's comments at a North Carolina rally this week when he accused the presumed Democratic nominee of being soft on crime by "helping raise" millions of dollars to free violent criminals through her support of the bail fund.
During the 2020 campaign, Harris called on her then-Twitter followers to donate to the fund to help bail out those arrested during the George Floyd riots. "If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota," she wrote on the social media platform in June of that year.
However, the bail fund has come under fire for helping put rapists and murderers back on the streets. Minneapolis-based FOX 9 reported that the fund spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to free an alleged knife murderer and a twice convicted rapist who was facing charges of sexual assault and kidnapping, among others.
Another criminal, George Howard, 48, also reaped the benefits of the funds. He allegedly became involved in a road rage altercation on an Interstate 94 entrance ramp before he shot another driver, according to Minneapolis police – weeks after bailing out on domestic assault charges.
Critics accused the CBS affiliate of lying and slapped the social media post with a Community Note.
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That will equal totally nothing to CBS or anyone else. Might as well urinate on the CBS building in the hope that it will fall down.
And that bitch refused to preside over Netanyahu’s visit.
Shame on her.
Ok. I’ll take that, particularly after browsing the comments which came after I posted my own.
Normally I check, but in this case - since I’m too busy this morning - I was relying upon another FReeper, wbarmy, on whose comment MY OWN WAS BASED.
I notice that you didn’t correct him...
You don’t really think that Harris would have any right to ask others to donate to that fund without having donated to it herself.
I know someone who works for this operation.
She walks around town with a briefcase filled with 250k in cash.
I tell her to find a backup job because this one won’t last forever.
So providing advertising for the fund, as she did to her twitter followers, wouldn’t be considered a ‘donation’? I read they took in North of 40 million after she spread the news encouraging the funding of it. Must have just been a coincidence? Normally celebrities are paid serious money to mention some product, brand or cause on TV or to their Instagram/twitter followers these days.
Exactly.
"Kamala was never Border Czar because Czar is not an official title!"
Democrats seem to be infatuated with communist and socialist terms.
-PJ
kammytoe told all her minions to donate.
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