Busted: Community Note Shreds New Yorker’s Trump Attack

The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser got walloped by Community Notes on Wednesday — and despite a direct challenge from the Trump campaign, has thus far declined to make any corrections.

Glasser wrote a response piece for The New Yorker after Tuesday’s ABC debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris — the latter of whom got a series of fact-checking assists from moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis — and among other things, she suggested that Trump had gone off the rails when he claimed Harris was in favor of tax-payer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in detention.

Harris’s bet was that Trump would say a lot of crazy and unhinged stuff if she got him going. It was a safe bet. I’ve watched every Presidential debate for the past two decades, and I can’t think of anything that ranks higher in pure stupidity than Trump ranting and raving to a national audience about immigrants supposedly eating people’s cats and dogs. His 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.

Glasser even highlighted the sentiment of that particular passage in her X post promoting the article: “Trump made history last night for sure. Who will ever forget him ranting on stage about immigrants eating people’s dogs? Or insisting that the Vice President ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in jail’?”

Trump made history last night for sure. Who will ever forget him ranting on stage about immigrants eating people’s dogs? Or insisting that the Vice President ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in jail’?

My piece on Trump’s too-crazy moment:…

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) September 11, 2024

But other X users quickly slapped Glasser with a Community Note, saying that according to an ACLU questionnaire — which Harris filled out in 2019 during her first failed bid for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination — she did, in fact, support exactly that.

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“I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained,” the questionnaire read, and Harris marked “yes.”

Harris is also on video claiming that she herself was instrumental in changing the policy in California to ensure that trans-identifying inmates within the prison system “would have access to the medical care that they desired and need.”

Tax-funded gender surgeries in prisons is so crazy that they think WE made it up

Roll the tape… pic.twitter.com/zqu3QAHfPa

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 12, 2024

Following the debate, after several pundits and media outlets suggested that Trump was crazy for suggesting Harris might support such a policy, that video and the 2019 ACLU questionnaire began to resurface on X — prompting at least TIME Magazine to issue a correction.

“The original version of this story mischaracterized as false Donald Trump’s statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting ‘transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.’ As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatments for detained immigrants,” the correction read.

A tale of two publications.@TIME embarrassingly had to issue a correction on its bogus fact check that claimed it was false that Harris supports taxpayer funded sex changes for detained illegal aliens (she told the ACLU she does).

But they did it.@NewYorker refuses to do so. pic.twitter.com/0wYrctv77E

— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) September 12, 2024

Still, even when pressed to do so by a Trump campaign official, The New Yorker opted to let Glasser’s piece ride.

Glasser, according to The Washington Free Beacon, informed the official that she was standing by the “view expressed in the column that this was a memorable line and also one that would be hard as heck for someone in the audience to understand what the former president meant by it.” Her goal, she explained further, was simply to ask about “the political advisability of bringing up these things in a national debate.”

“Despite this back and forth I still have no idea what the heck the former president was talking about. Kind of like claiming she is a Marxist. Or saying she supports abortions of babies—after they are born,” Glasser continued. “Are you retracting those claims and correcting the record on them? Thanks.”

But Glasser was wrong on those claims as well: During the debate, Harris refused to answer whether she would ever support any restrictions on abortion. Her running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), recently signed legislation granting broader access to abortion, and stripped away language that required doctors to take lifesaving action in the event that a baby survived an attempted abortion.

Saira Rao Privately Slams ‘Am I Racist?’ As ‘Nazi White Supremacy Film’

One of the anti-racist activists featured in “Am I Racist?” is privately attacking the Matt Walsh film to her supporters as a “fascist Nazi white supremacy film,” according to The Post Millennial

Rao, who has gained prominence in recent years for challenging white women to accept their racism, is warning her fans that she was “conned” into being a part of the film, and imploring them not to see the movie, a source who attended one of Rao’s events told the outlet. 

“By the way, we should tell you,” Rao told a group attending a virtual anti-racism book club, according to the source. “We haven’t even talked about this. We are the subjects of an upcoming Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro film. All the big cinemas are carrying this Nazi s***, Regal, AMC.” 

“Don’t go see it because nobody needs to pay that dude money, but Regina and I along with a crew of maybe half a dozen other people including Robin DiAngelo were conned into being part of this fascist Nazi white supremacy film,” she said, The Post Millennial reports. “So, anyway. You can Google it.”

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Rao and her business partner Regina Jackson offer what they call Race2Dinner, in which white women pay for a two-hour meal with the pair of anti-racism activists. The meals “require white women to participate in very direct, exceedingly difficult conversations” about racism. 

In “Am I Racist?,” Walsh attends one of these dinners and gets the white women to literally toast being racist, a clip of the film shows.

In this scene from my upcoming film “Am I Racist?” I was honored to earn a seat at the table during a Race to Dinner session. I was even more honored to lead the women in a toast to racists. Tickets on sale at https://t.co/iJv1cNRoWV pic.twitter.com/o7kriAG0X3

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 25, 2024


Rao’s recent comments on the film came during a Race2Reading event, a virtual book club series that spun off from the dinner series, The Post Millennial explains. It occurred on August 14, and cost $50 to join.

The virtual event was advertised as “an enriching experience in an intimate setting.”

The Post Millennial’s Libby Emmons writes that it’s a shame Rao and Jackson’s followers won’t go see “Am I Racist?”

“Undoubtedly, the dutiful white women will not go see the film,” Emmons writes. “If they did, they would see an honest account of their dinner series, where white women hang onto Rao and Jackson’s every word as tightly as they grip the stems of their wine glasses.”

The two women are the co-authors of “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better.

Rao and Jackson are not the only activists featured in the film attacking it as it hits theaters. Robin DiAngelo, the prominent anti-racist author of White Fragility, told her followers on Thursday that she got played by “a Borat-style mockumentary” that is “designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.”

Another activist who appears in the film called it a “piece of s***.”

Am I Racist?” opens today in over 1,500 theaters.