Media Mocks Trump Over ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens’ Only to Find Out Harris Wanted the Government to Pay for Them

Ronald Reagan once famously quipped that “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Well, today’s thinly-disguised partisan press suffers from both maladies.

Donald Trump’s performance at Tuesday night’s debate was replete with misrepresentations, absurdities, and outright lies. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” he blurted out at one point. It was an embarrassing display.

But because so much of the press sees itself as an arm of the Democratic Party, certain outlets managed to overstate their case and embarrass themselves as well.

While assailing Vice President Kamala Harris over the radicalism of her 2020 campaign for president, Trump mused that “She did things that nobody would ever think of. Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”

And just like that, all of the Fourth Estate’s laziest denizens sprang into action.   immediately sprung into action.

Time Magazine accused Trump of “falsely” claiming that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens.”

BET News’ Marc Lamont Hill called it “the WILDEST thing I’ve ever heard in any debate. EVER.”

“ Succession literally called it,” declared Adrian Carrasquillo , sharing a screenshot of the show’s fictional right-wing news channel sporting the chyron “Gender Fluid Illegals May Be Entering The Country ‘Twice.'”

And over at the vaunted New Yorker , Susan Glasser submitted that Trump’s “line about how the Vice-President ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison’ was pretty memorable, too.”

“What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point,” she continued confidently.

The problem with all of the contemptuous ridicule of Trump’s accusation is that he was absolutely right.

On Monday, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski came out with a damning report in which he noted that Harris endorsed “taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries” for both detained illegal immigrants and federal prisoners in her response to a questionnaire sent to her by the American Civil Liberties Union. From Kaczynski’s report :

Harris also wrote that she supported taxpayer funding of gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.

Harris was asked if, as president, she would use “executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care – including those in prison and immigration detention – will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care.”

Harris replied, “Yes.”

“It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition,” Harris wrote in a reply expanding on her answer. “That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates,” she wrote.

Harris explained that she supported granting prisoners and detainees access to “surgical care” for gender transition.

As CNN’s Erin Burnett marveled on Monday night, “these are things that, you know, it would be hard to think that you would come up with.” And remember, dear reader — it’s Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump, who came up with and championed it!

Moreover, what might have been a careless mistake at The New Yorker can now also be characterized as a lie. Both Glasser and her employer have been corrected by dozens of people online, and yet there has been no correction. It’s a staggering ethical failure for which many less privileged journalists would pay with their jobs.

Time , meanwhile, at least had the decency to remove the word “falsely,” from its report and affix a correction to the bottom of it. But the piece still reads “The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and claimed that Harris ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'”

Why is Trump’s allegation still being presented as if it’s preposterous? Again, the plain intention here is to deceive.

The only silver lining is that in their incompetent bid to help out Harris, they only underscored her weird brand of radicalism.