Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro attacked Vice President Kamala Harris ' economic plan by calling her a "comrade" — and saying the proposal would make Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "smile." The Democratic nominee for president laid out proposals Friday to cut taxes for most Americans, ban "price gouging" at grocery stores and build more affordable housing. Her proposal earned cheers from economic justice advocates, as costs have ballooned by 26 percent in the last five years .
But her proposals came much to the chagrin of Fox News' "The Five," however, with Pirro opening the show blasting Harris as "Kamala the comrade." "Vice President Harris rolling out an economic plan that would make Stalin smile," she said, "by pushing price controls and masking it as a corporate price-gouging ban. But we've seen this movie before and it always ends in disaster.
Just ask the Soviet Union. Price controls led to the massive shortage of food and essentials." ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure Pirro added that if her price-gouging ban doesn't "satisfy her communist cravings," she's also proposing a $25,000 first-time home-buyer credit — "A.
K.A. your hard-earned money.
" The firebrand Fox News host, known for controversial takes, pointed to an opinion piece in The Washington Post from columnist Catherine Rampell, who wrote Thursday: "It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is ." "It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food," she argued. "Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels.
Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk." She also pointed to a CNN clip in which host Abby Philip questioned whether the plan is a "ploy.
" Pirro said she believes it's a "socialist attempt to put a cap or reduce prices, when in the end it really is about supply-and-demand and it's never worked in history." Watch the clip below or at this link . A CNN fact-checker said he called 10 school districts around Minnesota to fact-check whether schools put tampons and pads in boys' bathrooms, an accusation lobbed on Fox News' "The Five, " a story FoxNews.
com , other Fox News hosts , and right-wing outlets after Gov. Tim Walz became Kamala Harris ' running mate. Even Donald Trump told a Montana crowd, “He ordered tampons to be put into boys’ bathrooms.
Do we have any children here? Please close your ears. He ordered tampons in boys’ bathrooms. .
.. He signed a bill that boys’ bathrooms — all boys’ bathrooms in Minnesota — will have tampons.
” CNN's Daniel Dale called school districts to see if the claims carried any weight, he said in a post on X. All of them said they "do not provide tampons in boys' bathrooms, because the law signed by Gov. Tim Walz does not actually require schools to provide tampons in boys' bathrooms.
" ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure In a full fact-check on the CNN website , Dale wrote that by publication, he'd heard from a dozen out of 25 school districts that the feminine hygiene products weren't placed in boys' bathrooms. “St. Cloud Area Schools provides free period products in female-only restrooms, designated gender-neutral restrooms, and from school health-care offices.
Period products are not provided in male-only designated restrooms,” Dale quoted Tami DeLand, a spokesperson for the central Minnesota school district. She was one of several statements that were published online calling out Trump's false information. Read it here.
A shouting match broke out Friday on Fox News as panelists erupted in rage — and laughter — over an analyst's refusal to source his claim about Vice President Kamala Harris . Analyst and attorney Clay Travis shouted down host Martha MacCallum and a fellow panelist as he repeatedly insisted Harris had the worst favorability ratings of any vice president. "The more she talks, the more people turn away from her," Travis exclaimed.
"She has the lowest rated vice president approval rating in history." "That's not true," replied panelist Antjuan Seawright , founder of a political consulting firm. "It is 100 percent true," Travis replied.
"The question is," Seawright replied, shouting to be heard, "Who said that?" Travis didn't answer and instead continued to shout that Harris was "the lowest" and "the worst" then claimed, "I don't have to tell you!" and "You cut me off!" The attorney might have been referencing an NBC poll from 2023 that found 49% of registered voters had a negative view of Harris while only 32% held a positive view, per a new NBC News. Harris' net-negative -17 rating was the lowest in the history of the poll — not of U.S.
history — which began in 1989 , 200 years after the nation's first vice president, John Adams, claimed office . ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher told Axios at the time that vice presidents typically poll on the same level as the president. He also noted another reason Americans might disapprove of Harris.
"[It] shouldn't surprise anyone that there is going to be a different filter and a different focus put on the first woman to ever be vice president of the United States," Belcher said. "Particularly a woman of color." MacCallum cut off the argument to note Harris' numbers were lowest in several decades but that she recently surpassed Trump "in a lot of the polling.
" That's when Travis shouted over MacCallum again to remind viewers Harris called out President Joe Biden for his record on busing before losing the nomination in 2019. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools," Harris said during the Democratic presidential debates. "She was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me.
" Watch the video below or click here . Donald Trump , who struggled to stay on message in two economic speeches this week, warned America it could face famine if his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris , is elected. After Harris outlined her economic plan to reduce grocery prices by stopping price gouging, Trump took to TruthSocial to call her attacks on the corporate practice outright communist.
"Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls," he wrote, mixing his capitalization. Trump then claimed that "EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income!" It wasn't immediately clear where he got that number. In a second post , Trump claimed Harris was "allowing Venezuela's dangerous criminals to freely enter our country through her WIDE OPEN Southern Border.
" Biden, notably, signed an executive order in June that closed most of the border. ALSO READ: Harris has figured out Trump’s greatest liability "If Kamala is elected and implements her Communist Price Caps, there will be famine, starvation, and poverty, the likes of which we have never seen. America will NEVER recover!" Trump claimed.
"Kamala Harris wants to raise your taxes and make you pay for free healthcare and free housing in luxury hotels for her millions of illegal aliens," Trump said, trying to claim "free" healthcare would still cost money. He then attempted to attack Tim Walz by adopting a phrase that has become synonymous with his running mate, Sen. J.
D. Vance (R-OH). "Weirdo Tim Walz, voted against my VA Mission Act that made healthcare more affordable and accessible for our Nation's Heroes!" said Trump.
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