Vice President Kamala Harris has instructed voters she labored at McDonald’s as a nod to her middle-class upbringing. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly mentioned with out proof that she is mendacity about her expertise on the restaurant.
Now some social media customers have shared supposed proof of Harris working on the quick meals chain with out realizing it was fabricated.
A picture posted Oct. 26 to Threads reveals a younger Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, sporting a McDonald’s uniform. The put up is captioned, “Look what I discovered, Kamala in a McDonalds uniform.”
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However the picture has been digitally modified. The unique picture reveals an individual in the identical uniform standing in entrance of the identical furnishings; it was posted on a web site to memorialize a girl named Suzanne Bernier, who died from breast most cancers in 2007 at a hospital in Ontario, Canada.
Some Instagram posts mentioned Democrats had edited the picture to show Harris labored at McDonald’s. Nevertheless, X consumer @TheInfiniteDude, who has posted content material supporting Trump, took credit score for the picture. The consumer first shared the picture Oct. 24 with the caption, “That is pretend.” The consumer later retweeted it and mentioned, “I made it” and that “within the tweet I’m fact-checking it myself as pretend.” The consumer added, “Who eliminated the context and shared it amongst democrats?”
We fee the declare that an outdated picture reveals Harris in a McDonald’s uniform False.
