Mainstream outlet tried to paint Donald Trump as the liar!
An X Community Notes fact-check called out CBS News Minnesota for posting a misleading story claiming Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of “donating to” a fund that bailed out dangerous criminals.
The notice pointed out Harris promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund on her Twitter account amid the 2020 George Floyd BLM riots.
Trump falsely accuses Harris of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund, bailing out “dangerous criminals” https://t.co/5yrcEmZB8c
— WCCO | CBS News Minnesota (@WCCO) July 25, 2024
See Harris’ post below:
If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020
During a North Carolina rally on Wednesday, Donald Trump told his crowd, “One of the dangerous criminals Kamala helped bail out of jail was Shawn Michael Tillman. You know that name. A repeat offender who, with Harris’s help, was set free. He then went on to murder a man on a train platform in St. Paul, Minnesota, shooting him in cold blood six times, lying on the ground.”
While the CBS article and MFF both alleged Trump said Harris was “donating” to the fund, he actually just said she “helped” people get bailed out.
“It is not correct that then-Sen. Harris has donated to our organization. We have no relationship with Harris beyond a single four-year-old tweet,” MFF said.
Trump’s accusation is completely factual as even CBS admitted in its article,
“In June of 2020, just after George Floyd’s death, then-California Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted, ‘If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.’”
A couple years after the Harris post, Shawn Michael Tillman was bailed out via MFF and went on to murder less than two weeks later.
CBS wrote,
“Nearly two years later, on April 25, 2022, Tillman was arrested in St. Paul on a gross misdemeanor indecent exposure charge. Bail is set at $2,000 dollars and he is put in jail. On May 3, 2022, the Minnesota Freedom Fund paid his $2,000 bail and he was released. On May 20, 2022, Tillman murdered a man at the light rail station in downtown St. Paul. He is now serving a life sentence for that crime.”
The fund Harris promoted also helped get other allegedly violent criminals released, as exposed this week by the Trump War Room X account:
Meet Donovan Boone.
Boone was charged with invading the home of his ex-girlfriend and strangling her.@KamalaHarris raised money to bail Boone out of jail.
Kamala Harris is radically liberal and dangerously incompetent. pic.twitter.com/3z73JvXPLR
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 23, 2024
Meet Christopher Boswell.
Boswell, a twice-convicted rapist, was charged with kidnapping, assault, and sexual assault in 2020.@KamalaHarris raised money to bail Boswell out of jail.
Kamala Harris is radically liberal and dangerously incompetent. pic.twitter.com/2lRPRyz44i
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 23, 2024
Meet Thomas Moseley.
Moseley was arrested for damaging a police station, drug charges, weapons charges, and rioting charges.@KamalaHarris raised money to bail Moseley out of jail twice.
Kamala Harris is radically liberal and dangerously incompetent. pic.twitter.com/G6NYhr8YMh
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 23, 2024
Meet Darnika Floyd.
In January 2020, Floyd was charged with second-degree murder after fatally stabbing a man who refused to have sex with her.@KamalaHarris raised money to bail Floyd out of jail.
Kamala Harris is radically liberal and dangerously incompetent. pic.twitter.com/g8QvfnINI3
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 23, 2024
Meet Shawn Tillman.@KamalaHarris raised money to bail Tillman out of jail.
Upon release, Tillman brutally murdered a passenger at a rail station in St. Paul, MN.
Kamala Harris is radically liberal and dangerously incompetent. pic.twitter.com/yopaaCRx60
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 23, 2024
The media is doing its job ahead of the 2024 presidential election by trying to clean up Kamala’s poor political record.