American Society of Plastic Surgeons breaks ranks on transgender care for minors
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is breaking with the consensus of the American medical establishment about best practices in so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.
The organization’s move, which represents 92% of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the U.S., comes amid shifting international sentiment that psychotherapy might be a better course of action in treating transgender-identifying minors over hormones and surgery.
The ASPS told Fox News Digital that it “has not endorsed any organization’s practice recommendations for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria,” as first reported by the Manhattan Institute (MI). The group said there is “considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions” and that “the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality/low certainty.”
“ASPS is reviewing and prioritizing several initiatives that best support evidence-based gender surgical care to provide guidance to plastic surgeons,” the group said in its statement to Fox News Digital. “As members of the multidisciplinary care team, plastic surgeons have a responsibility to provide comprehensive patient education and maintain a robust and evidence-based informed consent process, so patients and their families can set realistic expectations in the shared decision-making context.”
“It’s somewhat unexpected that the plastic surgeons of all people would be the ones to stand up for evidence-based medicine and to say we have to be more careful and not just give people what they want, because plastic surgeons have the opposite reputation,” MI fellow Leor Sapir told Fox News Digital.
“But when you think about it, it’s actually not that surprising, because the doctors who actually take the scalpel and cut into people, tend to have the heaviest sense of responsibility on their shoulders,” he added. “It’s understandable that they would be the ones who would want to know that what they’re doing, especially when it involves kids, is actually good, is not harming their patients.”
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The growing divide in standards of care in the U.S. and Europe comes amid emerging evidence like the U.K.’s Cass Review, commissioned by England’s National Health Service, which “may explain why there has been an apparent consensus on key areas of practice despite the evidence being poor.” The Cass Review was an independent assessment of youth gender treatments led by top British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, which “found no definitive proof that gender dysphoria in children or teenagers was resolved or alleviated by what advocates call gender-affirming care,” the New York Times’ Pamela Paul reported.
“In Europe, there’s been a course reversal because they have basically allowed their health authorities to do independent assessment of evidence, and they found that it’s just not there,” Sapir told Fox News Digital. “Here in the United States, instead of evidence-based medicine, we’ve relied on what I sometimes call eminence-based medicine, which is: ‘These treatments are good because these people say so.'”
“We always knew that this consensus was manufactured, we always knew that it was not based on good evidence,” he added. “We know that because we see the studies that they cite, and we’ve analyzed those studies, and they don’t say what they’re made out to say.”
A recent report from a Canadian think tank, which compared transgender medical policy for minors in Canada, the United States and Europe, found that the U.S. is one of a few Western countries where minors can receive gender surgery. In Belgium, Finland, Germany, Luxemburg, Sweden, the U.K., and three Canadian provinces, minors cannot undergo a double mastectomy before 18 and nearly all European countries included in the study do not perform sex reassignment surgery before 18.
But, in the U.S., the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery continues to be the prescribed path for minors who express distress over their gender and their developing bodies. Guidance issued in June 2022 by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recommended some surgeries be allowed from the age of 15, while some “gender-affirming” mastectomies have been performed on children as young as 12.
In addition to WPATH, groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Endocrine Society have remained firm in their commitment to “gender-affirming care,” which influenced nearly all the other guidelines, according to the Cass Review. Court documents released in June indicated that WPATH suppressed systematic reviews of evidence and eliminated age minimums for surgery under pressure from the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Rachel Levine.
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Between 5,288 and 6,294 “gender-affirming” double mastectomies for minors took place from 2017 to 2023, which includes 50 to 179 girls who were 12.5 or younger at the time of their procedure, according to a new analysis by the Manhattan Institute based on information from an all-payer national insurance database.
Dr. Richard Bosshardt, a board certified plastic surgeon and senior fellow at Do No Harm, said that as a member of ASPS for over thirty years, he is proud that it has stepped up and raised serious concerns about the practice of “gender-affirming” care.
“As a proud member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for over thirty years, a father of three, and a grandfather of six I have viewed the uncritical rush to embrace experimental gender-affirming care for minors with dismay and alarm,” he said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “Those pushing for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery on minors have grossly oversimplified something which is incredibly complex and poorly understood as though this is ‘settled science.’”
Do No Harm, which recently published a study called “Reassigned,” looked at the difference in approaches between North America and Europe. The group warned of a “concerning reality” in which patients in North America are eligible for “potentially irreversible or medically harmful interventions at a much younger age than those in Europe.”
“Plastic surgeons understand better than any other specialist the unique and daunting challenges of transexual surgery,” Bosshardt said. “Even in the best of hands and under ideal circumstances these are among the most complex and challenging surgeries. … Given the overwhelming evidence raising red flags against ‘gender-affirming’ care I hope the ASPS is just the first of many organizations to take this stand.”
Sapir said the statement by ASPS is evidence of a crumbling manufactured consensus among the American medical establishment.
Transgender activists argue that “rapid onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD), or the idea that adolescents with no history before puberty of gender distress experience gender confusion, which prompted the course reversal in Europe, does not exist. The idea that gender dysphoria is innate, even biological, is used as justification for the medical transition of children, but many researchers, including Sapir, believe the sharp rise in adolescent girls identifying as transgender indicates ROGD does exist.
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“The consensus in the United States has been a consensus about the quality of evidence and the medical necessity of these procedures and so here you have, for the first time, a major medical organization coming out and saying: ‘Nope, the evidence is actually highly uncertain, we have no idea if these procedures help or harm kids and given the vulnerability of the population … we need to have compelling evidence,” Sapir said. “ASPS also told me that it has never endorsed recommendations by WPATH or any other medical organization, which is true. So, they’re now challenging the US consensus that these treatments are sound, evidence-based and therefore ethical.”
Sapir said ASPS’ altered stance on “gender-affirming care” raises questions about legal liability of plastic surgeons, who are part of a “multidisciplinary team,” but often receive patients after they’ve been affirmed and medicalized by therapists and other doctors.
He said the question of: “To what extent are surgeons responsible for determining the medical propriety or necessity of these types of surgeries?” will grow in importance as the debate over “gender-affirming care” in the U.S. rages on.
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Fox News Digital reached out to WPATH and the Endocrine Society for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
CNN anchor concerned about ‘uncomfortable’ Biden-Harris event
CNN anchor Kasie Hunt expressed concerns Thursday about an upcoming dual event between President Biden and Vice President Harris, calling the appearance possibly “uncomfortable.”
“I actually have to say, I question why it is that Harris is doing this with Biden,” Hunt said. “It feels uncomfortable, straight up at the outset. Maybe it’s not going to be.”
The White House announced that Biden and Harris will travel to Maryland on Thursday to discuss their achievements in health care and the “progress they are making to lower costs for the American people.”
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“This is a very delicate balancing act for Harris,” Hunt said, noting that the event will be a “passing of the torch moment.”
“She’s obviously trying to carve out her own path and distance herself from the president on some issues like the economy,” she said.
Biden was forced off the ticket last month under immense party pressure as polls showed him likely to lose to former President Trump, and he is reportedly still harboring bitterness about his treatment from top Democratic figures like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
One of the CNN panelists, Democratic National Committee senior advisor Brad Woodhouse, denied that the event would be “uncomfortable” for Biden or for Harris.
“I don’t think it will be uncomfortable at all and remember that this event is announcing one of the seminal successes of this administration, which is driving down drug prices,” he said.
“She’s got to play number two with him in a world where you really want to look like number one!” Hunt responded.
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The anchor also told panelists that Trump is scheduled to give a press conference “right afterwards,” adding that if the Biden-Harris event is “awkward,” the former president would seize on it.
The White House has responded to questions from reporters as to the current relationship between Harris and Biden, especially after Harris has become the new presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized to reporters on Monday that Biden and Harris are closely aligned, adding that the vice president has been a “critical part” of the president’s accomplishments.
“[Harris is] going to lay out her vision,” Jean-Pierre said. “But again, they’ve been aligned, you know, they’ve been aligned for the last three and a half years. There’s not been any daylight.”
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The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
JD Vance agrees to vice presidential debate with Tim Walz — What to know
Ohio Sen. JD Vance announced Thursday that he has accepted an invitation to debate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Oct. 1.
“The American people deserve as many debates as possible, which is why President Trump has challenged Kamala to three of them already,” Vance wrote in a post on X. “Not only do I accept the CBS debate on October 1st, I accept the CNN debate on September 18th as well. I look forward to seeing you at both!”
Walz, who is Vice President Harris’ running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, said on X yesterday “See you on October 1, JD.”
CBS News said in a prior statement that it invited both candidates to a debate in New York City, with Oct. 1 being one of the available dates.
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“We look forward to their responses and providing voters with an opportunity to hear directly from the vice-presidential candidates,” the network said.
Although Vance said on X that he would debate Walz on CNN on Sept. 18 – it’s not immediately clear if Walz will attend that date.
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The Harris campaign did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
CNN is quoting a spokesperson as saying that the network “invited both Senator Vance and Governor Walz to a Vice Presidential debate this fall, and Senator Vance has accepted.”
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“We are always in communication with the campaigns around opportunities for the American public to hear from leading candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, and we look forward to this programming in the fall,” the spokesperson added.
Sports radio legend breaks rule not to mention politics, lets his opinion about Trump be known
Sports radio legend Chris “Mad Dog” Russo doesn’t usually get political when he’s on air, but during a podcast appearance, he let his opinions on former President Donald Trump be known.
Russo joined the “Sports Illustrated Media Podcast” with Jimmy Traina, where the show host was asked about speaking on sports during an election year.
During the question, Traina referred to Trump as “an animal,” to which Russo began to go off on the Republican presidential nominee, mainly for how he treats the current president, Joe Biden.
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“What is he doing?” Russo said about Trump, via Awful Announcing. “Biden announces he’s gonna leave, drop out. And he kills him? Say what you want about him… but [Biden] did give his freakin’ life to the United States from 1972-on. He also had tragedy in his life with his wife and child who died in that car accident… I think his heart, whether you like his policy or not, is generally speaking in the right place. I think he cares.”
Russo continued to speak on Trump’s action after Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
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“The fact that [Trump] can’t let him leave the scene quietly and give him his day,” Russo explained. “Even Biden, when Trump got shot, said, ‘I’m gonna call him,’ and he called him by his first name.
“Even Biden has at times to be above the fray. It really bothered me. Don, can you let the man for 24 hours, six months before the election go out with a little grace? And not pound him… that really bothered me.”
Shortly after Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race on July 21, Trump spoke with Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and called him “the worst president in the history of our country.”
“He is not fit to serve,” Trump continued. “And I ask — who is going to be running the country for the next five months?”
Trump more recently said Biden had the “right to run” for re-election, though the Democratic Party “took it away” from him during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
“I’m not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed, and he had a rough debate, but that doesn’t mean that you just take it away like that,” Trump said.
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Trump went on to say Biden’s replacement, vice president Kamala Harris, is the “least admired, least respected, and worst vice president in the history of our country.”
Hardworking Americans in a bind as major companies announce huge layoffs
The summer has brought announcements of job cuts at a slew of different companies.
The planned layoffs are expected to collectively hit thousands of people who work in industries including tech, media and auto.
Some of the firms that have disclosed intentions to reduce their headcounts this summer include:
Cisco
Cisco is embarking on a restructuring to “allow it to invest in key growth opportunities and drive more efficiency in its business.” That effort will involve laying off 7% of the company’s workers, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.
The company revealed its plans on Wednesday, the same date it released its first-quarter financial results. There had been reports ahead of the release that a possible layoff announcement was coming.
Its workforce was hit by layoffs once already this year in February.
Intel
Intel’s layoffs, announced Aug. 1, will result in some 15,000 employees losing their jobs.
They will arise out of a “comprehensive reduction in spending” that the tech giant said it was pursuing to “resize and refocus.” The company aims to trim costs by $10 billion in 2025 through its overall cost-reduction plan.
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“Our costs are too high, our margins are too low. We need bolder actions to address both – particularly given our financial results and outlook for the second half of 2024, which is tougher than previously expected,” CEO Pat Gelsinger said.
Paramount Global
Paramount Global started cutting some of its workers on Tuesday after previously disclosing late last week it had plans to slash its U.S.-based workforce by 15%.
Co-CEO Chris McCarthy said during the media company’s earnings call last week that the layoffs will be “primarily focused on two areas: first, redundant functions within marketing and communications; second; streamlining our corporate structure, reducing our headcount in finance, legal, technology and other support functions.”
He and fellow Co-CEOs Brian Robbins and George Cheeks told employees in a memo leaked to Deadline and other entertainment outlets that the process “will take place in three phrases … and continuing through the end of the year.” It will largely be done before October, according to reports.
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Paramount Global has linked the planned headcount reduction to a “strategic plan” that involves streamingling its organization and other initiatives.
Stellantis
Stellantis plans to stop manufacturing of the Ram 1500 Classic pickup truck at the Warren Truck plant later this year – and that move will result in some indefinite layoffs, Reuters reported late last week.
“With the introduction of the new Ram 1500, production of the Ram 1500 Classic at the Warren (Michigan) Truck Assembly Plant will come to an end later this year,” Stellantis said in a Wednesday statement to FOX Business. “As a result, Stellantis announced today that the plant will move from a two-shift to a one-shift operating pattern in General Assembly. Other operations within the plant will remain on two shifts to support Jeep Wagoneer production.”
“The Ram 1500 Classic has been a great entry point pickup for Ram and the Tradesman model has well represented the needs of commercial truck customers for years. We introduced the new 2025 Ram 1500 Tradesman with incredible value and content,” the company also said.
Another plant in Michigan is tasked with building the new Ram 1500.
Up to 2,450 workers at the Warren Truck plant could face indefinite layoffs. However, fewer workers than that will likely actually be impacted.
Fastly
Cloud platform provider Fastly, looking to streamline and reduce costs, said last week it will shed 11% of its headcount in layoffs. Those cuts will be “substantially completed” by the end of the year, it said.
The company reported a global workforce of 1,200 at the end of 2023.
Axios
Fifty workers at Axios were affected when the media outlet announced job cuts earlier in the month. The company decided to conduct the layoffs to “get ahead of tectonic shifts in the media, technology and reader needs/habits,” according to a memo from CEO Jim VandeHei.
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Sonos
Sonos on Wednesday revealed 6% of its workforce was receiving the ax. That amounted to about 100 people, according to reports.
The wireless speaker maker said it committed to the layoffs – and shrinking its real estate footprint more – to “improve the Company’s operating model and cost structure to set the Company up for long-term success,” according to an SEC filing.
Chicago police are looking for a woman who was caught on camera last month getting into an altercation with airline employees, even going as far as to throw computer equipment at them.
It happened around 7:45 a.m. July 30 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, police confirmed to Fox News Digital. The 31-year-old suspect was caught on video in a staff area behind a check-in counter, engaged in a verbal altercation with two women, ages 24 and 40, before knocking over various items on a desk.
The traveler who caught it all unfold told Storyful the woman “lost it” after missing her flight.
She is seen climbing back over the bag drop conveyor belt and shouted “stupid” at Frontier Airlines staff.
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Chicago police say the offender threw a cell phone that struck the 40-year-old victim and struck the 24-year-old victim in the leg. She took off, and has not been found as area detectives continue investigating.
Frontier did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
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Earlier this month, a Frontier Airlines pilot was arrested, resulting in a flight cancelation.
It happened at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, authorities confirmed to Storyful. The pilot, identified by the Houston Police Department as 45-year-old Seymour Walker, was wanted on an assault-family violence warrant.
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Video captured by one of the passengers shows Walker being escorted off the plane by three officers while he was in handcuffs being led to a patrol car. He was taken into custody before any passengers boarded Flight 3195 heading to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
Polling guru issues warning about numbers and underestimating Trump
Polling and data guru Nate Silver said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is slightly favored to win the presidential election if it were held tomorrow, but cautioned the public against relying too much on polls, citing their record of getting it “wrong” when it comes to former President Trump.
“If you have the election tomorrow… I think Harris would be a slight favorite,” Silver said Wednesday on “Special Report.” “She has been ahead in most recent polling in the ‘blue wall’ states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada all polling in the margin of error range.”
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“People should remember, though, two things,” he added. “One, we have three more months to go. There will be more surprises. And two, the polls have been wrong before. In both the last two general elections they underestimated Trump.”
The prominent elections analyst and statistician published a polling update on his Substack forecast page earlier Wednesday, noting a series of “strong swing state” polling for Harris.
“The race is still in what we’d consider the toss-up range, but Harris’s momentum has been steady and upward,” he wrote.
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Needless to say, stranger things have happened than a candidate who was behind in the polls winning,” he added. “And in America’s polarized political climate, most elections are close, and a candidate is rarely out of the running.”
Silver recently changed his election prediction to “toss-up” after initially predicting former President Trump was electorally favored to win the White House in November, with Harris winning the popular vote.
Announcing his updated prediction on Substack in early August, Silver wrote, “When we launched the presidential model on June 26 — in the lifetime ago when Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee — the headline in the post that introduced the model was that the election wasn’t a toss-up. Instead, Biden had persistently been behind in the states that were most likely to decide the Electoral College, enough so that he was about a 2:1 underdog in the election despite the uncertainties in the race. His situation wasn’t unrecoverable, or at least it wasn’t until the debate. But you’d rather have had Donald Trump’s hand to play every day of the week and twice on Sundays…”
“Now that the election is in Kamala mode, however, it’s far from clear whose position you’d rather be in, and I wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to bet either on Harris or on Trump,” he added.
Silver told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on “Special Report” that his polling is based off models, reiterating that “sometimes models go wrong.”
“So our view is that the polling bias is unpredictable and can go in either direction. If Pennsylvania is Harris plus 2 on Election Day, it could be Trump wins by 2 or Harris wins by 6, et cetera,” he explained.
Silver, who authored a new book, “On The Edge,” predicted a strong August finish for the Harris campaign, noting that the Democratic National Convention next week is likely to give her a temporary boost in the polls. He said he feels Trump has been “knocked off his campaign a little bit” after Biden withdrew from the race, with Harris taking his place.
“They were under-prepared for a change in the Democratic candidate,” Silver argued. “They have been, in my view, making some tactical mistakes, focusing on things like her race, for example, instead of things like immigration or the economy.”
“But September is a whole new month….you have a debate, at least one, maybe multiple debates. And she [Harris] will have higher expectations than she has right now,” he added.
Fox News released a national survey Wednesday showing Harris trailing Trump by one percentage point, 49-50%. By that same figure, more Democrats back Harris (94%) than Republicans support Trump (93%), while the small subgroup of Independents goes for him by 8 points.
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The poll found that equal numbers of those preferring Harris and Trump are extremely motivated about voting this year (68% each). Last month, Trump backers (66%) were 5 points more likely than Biden supporters (61%) to say they were extremely motivated.
The economy is clearly the top priority for voters, as 38% said it will be the most important issue in their vote for president. Next comes immigration and abortion, tied at 14% each, with all other issues tested in single digits.
Silver said the new poll is “pretty good” news for Trump.
“That will help a little bit when we update our model tomorrow,” he added.
Social media scorches Harris, Walz for interviewing each other while evading the media
Vice President Kamala Harris and 2024 running mate Gov. Tim Walz took heat on social media for sharing clips of a “scripted and fake” interview they did with each other online while they continue to evade interviews.
Despite Harris not having a formal press conference or sit-down interview 25 days into her presidential campaign, both her and Walz have shared excerpts of their interview they conducted to generate hype for the ticket. The clip was met with ridicule from conservative critics who said it encapsulates the fakeness of Harris’ entire campaign.
“So your response to accusations of hiding from interviews is to put out a scripted conversation?” conservative commentator Blaire White asked on X after viewing the clip.
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The clip in question – taken from a longer discussion between the Democratic ticket that will be released Thursday – featured the two playfully reminiscing about the phone call Harris made to ask Walz to be her running mate.
Harris teased Walz for missing the initial phone call. “I called you, Tim. I called you, Tim.” A bashful looking Walz replied, “Yes.” “You didn’t answer, Tim,” the vice president continued.
“I know. I know. The most important call of my life. It popped up, and we didn’t recognize the caller ID, and it went to uh, it went to voicemail,” Walz said, as Harris laughed.
The clip then flashed to a scene of Harris listening to Walz’s voicemail and leaving one of her own, saying, “Hey Tim, it’s Kamala. I really want to talk to you.”
The scene then jumped back to the two candidates, with Walz saying, “It is an amazing privilege. I’m excited. I just want to be part of the excitement that you’re generating.”
“Well, we’re doing it together, buddy,” Harris replied as the clip ended. Her official account captioned the video, stating, “I could not imagine a better partner than @Tim_Walz to lead our campaign.”
The clip received nearly two million views on X in a day, though many of the responses on the video trashed it for being inauthentic and cringe-inducing.
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Conservative commentator duo The Hodge Twins asked, “How many times did y’all act this out before you got it right? Completely scripted and fake.”
Prominent conservative account “End Wokeness” called the clip the “Fakest s— I’ve ever seen.”
Author Hans Mahncke ripped the duo for interviewing each other rather than being interviewed by the media. “OMG they can’t do interviews so instead they talk to each other and hope we don’t notice the difference,” he posted.
Journalist Steve Krakauer wrote, “Well, they finally did an interview. (Every journalist with an ounce of self-respect should be furious.)”
Pro-Trump social media influencer ALX mocked Harris’ mannerisms in the video, commenting, “Normal people totally say the person’s name they’re talking to three times in the first 3 seconds.”
Conservative talk radio host Cash Loren described the clip as “Another scripted fake and cringe phone call.”
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