Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Tweet 'My Father Is Black. Trump's Father Was KKK'

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  • by: Ed Payne
Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Tweet 'My Father Is Black. Trump's Father Was KKK' Parody Account

Did Kamala Harris tweet "My father is black. Trump's father was KKK"? No, that's not true: This fabricated quote is attributed to an account in an image labeled "Parody" that misspells the vice president's name. There is no record of her making such a statement on X or any other platform.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Threads on July 31, 2024. The screenshot of the fake quote from a parody account spells the vice president's name wrong with an "O" in its username -- @KamolaHarris. The post says:

My father is black. Trump's father was KKK.

This is what the post looked like on Threads at the time of writing:

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(Source: Threads screenshot taken on Fri Aug 2 15:47:22 2024 UTC)

The post provided no evidence to support its claim that Harris said, "My father is black. Trump's father was KKK."

Fake account

Two things immediately indicate that this purported quote by the vice president is not legitimate. First, Harris' first name is misspelled "Kamola" in the account's username (circled in red below). Second, the post identifies itself as a "Parody" (circled in yellow below):

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(Source: Threads screenshot taken on Fri Aug 2 15:47:22 2024 UTC)

The username @KamolaHarris (archived here) belongs to an account with a slightly different handle than the post above, "Kamala Harris Ghostwriter," which has been flagged by X with the title "Caution: This account is temporarily restricted." The rest of the message says:

You're seeing this warning because there has been some unusual activity from this account. Do you still want to view it?

This is what the account looked like on X at the time of writing:

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(Source: X screenshot taken on Fri Aug 2 17:16:30 2024 UTC)

If you click, "Yes, view profile," X takes you to the profile page for @KamolaHarris, which doesn't appear to have been active since July 2022 and doesn't include the "Trump's father" post that purportedly came from the account on July 31, 2024. The official Harris account, @KamalaHarris, appears side by side below, with the fake account @KamolaHarris:

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(Source: X screenshots taken on Fri Aug 2 2024 UTC)

Google search

Lead Stories searched using keywords on Google, visible here (archived here), and found no credible reporting as of August 2, 2024, to corroborate the claim that Harris said, "My Father Is Black. Trump's Father Was KKK."

The header for the search appears below:

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(Source: Google screenshot taken on Fri Aug 2 17:45:39 2024 UTC)

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  Ed Payne

Ed Payne is a staff writer at Lead Stories. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist as part of CNN’s coverage of 9/11. Ed worked at CNN for nearly 24 years with the CNN Radio Network and CNN Digital. Most recently, he was a Digital Senior Producer for Gray Television’s Digital Content Center, the company’s digital news hub for 100+ TV stations. Ed also worked as a writer and editor for WebMD. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, Ed is the author of two children’s book series: “The Daily Rounds of a Hound” and “Vail’s Tales.” 

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