FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Claims She’s ‘Not a Trained Seal’ Who Memorizes Talking Points.

Expert Analysis: We’ve seen no evidence to suggest that Kamala Harris is a seal or other semiaquatic marine mammal capable of performing tricks, so let’s assume she was speaking metaphorically. Harris’s interactions with the media during her failed presidential campaign were remarkably consistent. She would memorize a bunch of talking points and attempt to spout them off, no matter what the question was. On numerous occasions, she would ramble nonsensically about her “middle-class” upbringing in response to questions about inflation. Harris would inevitably get flustered when the otherwise friendly journalist tried to prod her towards a more coherent response, and this would often end in disaster when Harris tried to come up with new words on the spot.

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Related: Bill Maher sticks the rhetorical shiv in: