Former President Donald Trump has given Vice President Kamala Harris the nickname “Comrade Kamala”, suggesting she is a communist. However he has not known as her “Kamal Aroush” or stated she is a person, as social media customers have claimed.
A screenshot purporting to be from Trump’s Reality Social account and shared on Threads accommodates a photograph of Harris and one other digitally altered picture of her supposedly as a person. Textual content superimposed over the pictures reads, “Kamala Harris is a person.” The put up additionally features a screenshot of an X put up that claims, “Are you aware this man…? His identify is “Kamal Aroush.”
(Screengrab from Instagram Threads)
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An X consumer additionally shared the screenshot with the caption, “First, he alleged that Kamala Harris wasn’t Black. Now he’s attempting to persuade individuals she’s not a lady. Donald Trump is the world’s worst particular person.” That put up has greater than 71,000 views.
However the screenshot isn’t on Trump’s official Reality Social or X accounts. We searched Google and the Nexis information database, however didn’t discover any credible information reviews about Trump posting about Harris being a person.
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, instructed PolitiFact in an e mail that the put up is pretend.
The picture has been circulating since at the very least October 2020, when it was posted on a conspiracy idea weblog.
We price the declare Trump posted on Reality Social that Harris was once a person named Kamal Aroush False.
PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
