Australian National Review – Leftists eat their own people: CNN calls out Kamala Harris for hypocrisy for using Trump’s border wall in new campaign ad despite earlier criticism

You can’t make this stuff up: Kamala Harris, who once called Trump’s border wall “racist” and “useless,” is now using it as a campaign tool.

The same wall she tried to dismantle is now making a comeback in her latest ad campaign, and CNN – yes, far-left CNN – is calling her outright hypocrisy.

In a new report from CNN’s K-File, investigative journalists have discovered more than 50 copies where Harris publicly criticized Trump’s border wall, calling it everything from “a waste of taxpayer money” to “a medieval vanity project.”

But now, in a shocking twist, Harris is calling that wall one of her accomplishments.

Erin Burnett dug deep into the controversy, airing clips from Harris’ new ad that prominently features the border wall.

The ad features Harris touting her reputation as a tough prosecutor, focusing on border security and taking down drug cartels.

The punchline? The wall she’s standing in front of was built by none other than Donald Trump.

Last month, Sheriff Mike Boudreaux lashed out at Kamala Harris for including him in her campaign ad without his permission.

“In light of a recent political ad by Kamala Harris featuring Sheriff Boudreaux, and other local law enforcement officials, the Sheriff wants to make it clear that his likeness is being used without his permission and that he is NOT endorsing Harris for President or any other political office,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Boudreaux, who has served the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office for 37 years and is currently president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, reflected on a 2013 visit Harris made to the Central Valley when she was California’s attorney general.

The ad in question shows Boudreaux and other police officers during that visit, but the sheriff maintains that the circumstances described are misleading.

“I want to point out, by the way, the misleading information projected in that same political ad. In the ad, Harris claims he spent decades fighting violent crime as a ‘border state prosecutor.’ The facts are that ‘then California Attorney General Kamala’ came to the Valley in 2014 with a years-long investigation into a multinational drug operation with ties to Mexican drug cartels and prison gangs,” Boudreaux explained.

Boudreaux says 11 people were arrested in that case, including suspected Dinuba “kingpin” Jose Magana. But the sheriff says Harris was more interested in optics than results.

“The truth is Harris never cared about the cartels and did nothing to stop people from crossing the border illegally,” he said, adding that Harris’ appearance was just “smoke and mirrors.”

CNN’s K-File reporter Andrew Kaczynski was on hand with Burnett to provide the receipts.

Below is the transcript of the interview:

Erin Burnett: In a new report that you’ll be the first to see, the K-File team dug through Kamala Harris’ tweets and statements all the way back to 2017. What they found were more than 50 instances in which Harris criticized Trump’s border wall. But now, new Harris campaign ads actually show the wall.

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Erin Burnett: In addition to critical tweets, Harris also wrote in her 2019 book: There was a bigger reason to oppose the border wall. A useless wall on the southern border would be nothing more than a symbol. A monument that not only violates everything I value, but the fundamental values ​​upon which this country was built. How could I vote to build something that would be little more than a monument designed to send the cold, hard message, “Stay Out?” Well, Andrew Kaczynski from K-Files is here now. Andrew, you’ve all gone through and combed through an incredible amount of material. Tell me more about what you’ve found.

Andrew Kaczynski: Yes, that’s right. We found over 50 of those tweets where she criticized the border wall before she used it in her ad. I want people to look at some of what she said here.

She called it “wasteful,” “useless,” “a waste of taxpayer money,” “a vanity wall project,” “a wasteful border wall,” “a dumb wall,” “a medieval vanity project,” and “an unnecessary wall.” That’s just to name a few… I mean, there were more, like 50.

But really, a lot of this was the common refrain during the campaign. You read that quote where she said it was against everything that not only she stood for, but everything that America stood for. She brought this up a lot. Just listen to one example of that in 2019.

Erin Burnett: Okay, so you go through all of this stuff, you have all of the tweets, and yet all of a sudden in the ads there are pictures of the wall. You went ahead and looked at that wall. What is this specific wall that is now in her campaign ads?

You found something really interesting about this particular passage. I think it’s also really notable that you heard her talk about it — that Trump’s wall during his presidency wasn’t really a larger symbol of his presidency. The way Democrats attacked him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies is striking.

Andrew Kaczynski: We looked at that ad, and if you look at it, that exact area of ​​the wall is in Sasabe, Arizona. That’s a section of the wall that Donald Trump actually built. It was built in an area that didn’t have walls, which was pretty controversial when they were building it.

Just to see her using his wall to say, “Look what I did,” basically. We couldn’t find the other images of the wall exactly, but there are clear signs that it was a Trump wall because it has an anti-climbing sign on top, which became popular during the Trump years.

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