adrina
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I dislike Trump so much and hate to see him have another chance at being our President but then I remember this quote. We are fucked either way.
“With the swipe of my pen, I could charge someone….That person could be arrested, they could lose time from work and their family, maybe lose their job. Weeks later, I could dismiss the charges. But their life would forever be changed”—Kamala Harris
Harris comment on destroying lives was about using power responsibly | Fact check
Our rating: False
The video leaves out the portion of Harris’ speech that makes it clear she is talking about using power responsibly, not bragging about abusing the power she had as a prosecutor.The social media clip abruptly ends in the middle of her next line, which begins, “So, I learned at a very young age, the power.”
But Harris’ full speech, available on C-SPAN, makes it clear she wasn’t bragging about abusing the power she wielded as a prosecutor. To the contrary, she went on to describe “the power to impact real human beings that we have when we hold these offices" and criticize then-President Donald Trump.
“We have a person in the White House who holds the office of president of the United States who does not fully or even partially understand what it means to have power,” Harris said. “He doesn’t understand what it means to be powerful, because when you truly understand what it means to be powerful, you understand that the greatest measure of your strength is not who you beat down – it’s who you lift up.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...swipe-of-my-pen-power-fact-check/75189935007/
What do you think now?