Kamala Harris is lying about working at McDonald’s, Trump claims

Former president plans to ‘work the fry cooker’ at a branch of the fast-food chain in Philadelphia on Sunday

Donald Trump has claimed Kamala Harris is lying about her claims that she worked at McDonald’s.
The former president plans to “work the fry cooker” at a branch of the burger chain in the Philadelphia area on Sunday, according to a campaign source.
Trump has been teasing a visit to a McDonald’s restaurant for weeks in response to his Democratic opponent’s repeated retelling of her summer job at the restaurant as a student.
Ms Harris has been mocked for frequently referencing her time as a McDonald’s employee in her bid to burnish her middle class credentials and highlight the contrast in her background with Trump’s.
She worked at a branch of McDonald’s in Alameda, California during the summer of 1983, while she was a student at Howard University, according to Quentin Fulks, her deputy campaign manager.
Mr Fulks claimed it was the US vice-president’s humble roots that helped her relate to ordinary Americans.
“It’s a stark contrast to Donald Trump, who wants to explode costs on the middle class while handing out tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations—and that split screen will be on full display through November 5,” he previously told the Daily Beast.
However, Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms Harris’s story about serving fries is “fake” and vowed to visit a McDonald’s himself.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday, he said: “Oh, I’m going. Because she lied.”
He added of Ms Harris’s story about working at McDonald’s as a student: “We checked it out. Unless somebody comes up with something. We checked it out. They said she never worked here. She even picked the store. We went to the manager. The manager’s been there forever. ‘You remember her?’ ‘No, she never worked here’. They know.”
Ms Harris’s allies have compared Trump’s claim to his false “birther” theory that his predecessor Barack Obama was not born in the US.
The Harris campaign has faced a similar challenge to the dilemma Mr Obama faced in how to respond to the allegations without giving them more airtime.
When asked about Trump’s claims last month, Ms Harris insisted “I have” worked at McDonald’s, adding: “It was not a small job, like, I did the fries. I mean, you know, I did.”