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Gaslighting the Public on Kamala Harris as ‘Border Czar’
Kamala Harris speaks during a press conference at El Paso International Airport, on June 25, 2021, in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
The press rewrites recent history to accommodate the current political environment.
By Peter Savodnik
07.24.24 — U.S. Politics
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On March 24, 2021, Axios published a story with the headline “Biden Puts Harris in Charge of Border Crisis.”

Politics reporter Stef W. Kight informed us that the vice president would be “addressing the migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border” and that Harris would “lead efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) t…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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