I never served in the military, but I did serve under the Golden Arches at McDonald’s. Kamala Harris apparently did neither, based on the available evidence, and her recent claims to be a fry cook in college seem to be the fast-food version of stolen valor.
You would think a socialist senator who worked at McDonald’s would make her fast-food experience a defining episode in her political memoir, not to mention a staple of her multiple campaigns in California’s Bay Area. But her stint as a minimum-wage cashier representing the American franchise wasn’t mentioned until she first ran for president in 2019, and the story was absent from both of her memoirs, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
“McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as ‘her humble background,’” the Beacon reported. “For decades,” however, “Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college.” Even “third-party biographers did not write about it.”
The first mention of her alleged time as a McDonald’s employee came in 2019, when she told a labor rally in Las Vegas she “was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s,”
