Trump – Harris Debate Viral Moments

One of the overarching themes of the “debate” was that the “moderators” kept “fact-checking” Trump live during the debate.  This allowed Harris to openly and repeatedly lie nonstop to one of the campaign season’s largest TV audiences.

Indeed, perhaps the most viral moments in the debate were the “moderators” interruptions of former President Trump.

And, as the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway pointed out the “fact checks” were false.

When Trump said that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people’s pets, ABC’s David Muir fired back at Trump by quoting the city manager saying there are no credible reports of that. Harris in response gave her odd shrill laugh, but the internet and especially Elon Musk’s X are harsh mistresses.

Despite the ABC’s fake “fact check” a recording of a police phone call obtained by The Federalist reveals a local resident reporting a group of Haitian migrants carrying four geese in Springfield, Ohio two weeks ago.

“I’m sitting here, I’m riding on the trail, I’m going to my orientation for my job today, and I see a group of Haitian people, there was about four of ’em, they all had geese in their hand,” the caller tells the public services dispatcher in the audio recording of the call.

According to a police report reviewed by The Federalist, the call was placed on Aug. 26, before the Columbus suburb located roughly 50 miles from the state capital became nationally known this week for epitomizing the nation’s migrant crisis. The caller told the dispatcher he saw four migrants in total, two men and two women, each carrying a single goose.

“I was trying to get my phone out and I was trying to make it to this orientation on time,” the caller continued. “I’m time crunching here, and I saw that, I’m like, ‘Yeah this has got to be reported,” he tells the non-emergency police dispatcher.

“How many geese did they have?” the dispatcher asks the caller in the recording.

The caller says he spotted the Haitians carrying the geese at an intersection between Water and Warder Street, a location that does exist in Springfield and is confirmed in the police report later filed about the incident.

As Emerald Robinson posted to X.

In the end, former President Trump did manage to cut through the bias, especially regarding Harris’s responsibility for the illegal alien invasion, and “migrant crime” may be the new buzzword of the campaign.

And Trump hammered Harris on her plans to ban fracking, a policy that would kill thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, even as the “moderators” failed to fact check her when she denied that was her policy.

Trump scored another big viral moment by challenging Harris to go back to Washington, wake up Joe Biden and close the border.

President Trump also lit-up the internet by asking Harris directly if she would allow abortion in the 7th, 8th, and 9th months of pregnancy–or even afterwards–and she refuses to say she would not.

ABC’s Linsey Davis spent most of her time commenting on or “fact checking” Trump instead of moderating. One of the most egregious examples was where she said there is no state in the union where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born. But Davis’s snide remark–which helped set Harris up for a snide remark of her own about Trump telling “lies”–ignores the fact that several Democrats including the Democrat former governor of Virginia Ralph Northam have openly said they want infanticide.

What’s more, Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, signed into law last year that removed a requirement to try to save the life of a baby born alive after an attempted abortion.

A Minnesota law that had been on the books since 1976 required “responsible medical personnel” to use “[a]ll reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice” to “preserve the life and health of the born alive infant,” was amended and replaced with a lower standard of care and no requirement to preserve the life and health of an infant born alive.

The same 2023 Minnesota law also removed a previous requirement to report to the state the deaths of aborted unborn babies 20 weeks’ gestation and older and stopped state funding for pro-life pregnancy centers. 

So, what was the bottom line on last night’s debate? We will let Donald Trump’s closing statement wrap our debate coverage.

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