The most well-known ‘fact-investigators’ of the mainstream media have been silent on the denial of Vice President Kamala Harris that the government in Biden did not inherit a plan to vaccinate a coronavirus yard.
During an interview with Mike Allen, co-founder Mike Allen, which aired on HBO on Sunday, Harris was asked about the struggle of the government’s response to the pandemic after nearly one month in office.
“There was no supply … of vaccines,” Harris replied. “There was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations. We left it to the states and local leaders to try to figure it out. And in many ways we are starting from scratch to something that has been raging for almost a whole year.”
Harris echoed the remarks of the White House, dr. Anthony Fauci, directly contradicted last month about CNN’s reporting that made a similar claim.
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“We are certainly not starting from scratch because there are activities going on in the distribution,” Fauci said during a White House press release.
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact-checker who has been famous for the lies uttered during the Trump presidency, should not yet weigh Harris’ verdict.
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This past weekend, Kessler spent much of his time investigating former President Trump’s legal team during the Senate hearing. One of the allegations he tried to verify was in defense of Harris, who violated the Trump team last year for promoting the Minnesota Freedom Fund. The fact checker insisted that Trump’s lawyers claim that the money raised from the fund rescuing rioters, including repeat offenders, is “more complicated” than they suggested.
CNN star facts checker Daniel Dale also attached the Trump defense team over the weekend. Neither he nor the rest of the fact-checking team at CNN addressed Harris’ denial claim.
Maybe it’s awkward for Dale and CNN to report to them.
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CNN, which reported that Fauci was shot down from the White House press room last month, quoted anonymous Biden officials and the anti-Trump network promoted the newly denounced ‘scoop’ on the air.
Neither CNN nor Kessler of the Washington Post immediately responded to Fox News’ requests for comment.
While PolitiFact was the only prominent fact-maker to dispute Harris’s allegation as ‘wrong’, Axios, the Vice President’s newspaper claiming her, was strangely unfounded by deleting a tweet referring to Fauci’s previous remarks . while sharing the track on Twitter.
Axios also did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
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While the fact-checkers have largely remained silent, Harris’ falsehood is portrayed as truth elsewhere. PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor took the vice president at her word during her Monday appearance on MSNBC.