Add Kamala Harris’s fundraising for criminal Black Lives Matter rioters in 2020 to the growing list of items the media is eager to lie about ahead of the vice president’s coronation as leader of the Democrat Party next month.
On Thursday, a CBS station in Minnesota sought to dismiss Republican reminders that Harris encouraged supporters to give money to a fund for far-left demonstrators who were arrested for terrorizing the country in 2020.
“[Former President Donald] Trump claims Harris helped raise millions and personally donated to a fund that got extra support to bail out protestors in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death,” CBS News Minnesota reported. The local station called Trump’s accusation “misleading” because the Minnesota Freedom Fund said, “It is not correct that then-Sen. Harris has donated to our organization.”
Harris, however, published a post (which remains online), on what was Twitter at the time, wherein the California senator-turned-vice president asked supporters to “chip in now to the [Minnesota Freedom Fund] to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” The link was posted on Harris’s page on June 1, 2020, as far-left riots exploded across the country in the most expensive outbreak of political unrest in American history, costing upwards of $2 billion, or 66 times the estimated wreckage from the Capitol riot seven months later.
The Minnesota Freedom Fund went on to bail out a repeat felon who was later charged with murder and another who was a registered sex offender later accused of child rape.
The Republican Party posted a clip on X of the CBS station asking Harris about the Minnesota Freedom Fund directly just weeks before the 2022 midterms.
“I think that, unfortunately … people are playing political games right now,” Harris said, dismissing her support for the violent rioters of 2020 as election-year “disinformation.”
On Tuesday, CNN characterized the Minnesota Freedom Fund as a “charitable bail group.” The network reported, “Biden and Harris have condemned the riots and violence that occurred on multiple occasions and have expressed support for peaceful protest.”
Harris is still raising money for the Minnesota bail fund, according to The Washington Free Beacon, which credited her post for helping the fund reach $41 million in donations in 2020, while adding that “the group only used a small fraction of that bounty — $210,000 — to bail rioters out of jail.”
“The Minnesota Freedom Fund continues to reap dividends from Harris’s fundraising efforts well into 2024,” the Beacon’s Andrew Kerr wrote Monday. “The vice president’s fundraising page for the group, which contains a photo of a triumphant Harris before a crowd of supporters alongside her 2020 campaign logo, is active and accepted a contribution from this reporter on Monday morning.”
