A local CBS News affiliate has been hit with a Community Notes “fact check” on X for pushing false claims in a desperate attempt to hide Vice President Kamala Harris’s far-left record from the American people.
CBS Minnesota affiliate WCCO claimed President Donald Trump had “falsely” accused Harris of helping raise money for a bail fund that helped violent criminals get out of prison.
“Trump falsely accuses Harris of donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, bailing out ‘dangerous criminals,'” CBS Minnesota affiliate WCCO posted on X on Thursday.
The post went viral and racked up nearly 7 million views in under 24 hours.
The media outlet was referring to Trump’s comments at a North Carolina rally this week when he accused the presumed Democrat nominee of being soft on crime by “helping raise” millions of dollars to free violent criminals through her support of the bail fund.
However, the claim is true.
As Slay News has reported, in 2020, Harris helped promote a fund to supposedly help get Black Lives Matter rioters back on the streets by paying their bail.
Yet, the vast majority of the funds were used to release dangerous killers, rapists, and other violent criminals who were not connected to the BLM riots.
During the 2020 campaign, Harris called on her then-Twitter followers to donate to the fund.
She told her supporters that the money would be used to help bail out those arrested during the “George Floyd” riots.
“If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” she wrote on the social media platform in June of that year.
However, the bail fund has come under fire for helping put rapists and murderers back on the streets.
Only a small fraction of the millions of dollars raised helped bail out BLM rioters.
Minneapolis-based FOX 9 reported that the fund spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to free an alleged knife murderer and a convicted rapist who was facing charges of sexual assault and kidnapping, among others.
Another criminal, George Howard, 48, also reaped the benefits of the funds.
He allegedly became involved in a road rage altercation on an Interstate 94 entrance ramp before he shot another driver, according to Minneapolis police.
The incident occurred just weeks after he was bailed out on domestic assault charges.
Social media users accused the CBS affiliate of lying.
As a result, the claim was “fact-checked” and the post was slapped with a Community Note.
The note added to the post confirms that Trump’s comments were not “false.”
“The accusation is not false,” the note reads with a link to Harris’s tweet which has an active donation link.
“Kamala has promoted MFF in the past and her X post supporting it is still active (for now).”
WCCO’s published story includes Harris’s 2020 tweet calling for donations to the bail fund.
However, the report accuses Trump of “misleading” voters.
It also claims Trump was accusing Harris of personally donating to the bail fund.
“Despite Trump claim and 2020 tweet showing support, Harris never donated to Minnesota Freedom Fund,” the headline for the report by WCCO reporter Esme Murphy reads.
