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Rep. Byron Donalds torched Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday for again playing loose with the facts.

Appearing on Fox News that evening, Harris responded to a question about the Biden-Harris border crisis by predictably pointing at her nemesis, former President Donald Trump.

According to Harris, the border crisis would have been magically resolved had Congress simply passed a supposedly “bipartisan” border control bill mainly championed by Democrats.

But the bill failed to pass in part because of criticism from Trump, who Harris claimed on Wednesday had lobbied against the bill because its passage would have resolved the border crisis and thus made the Biden-Harris administration look good ahead of the 2024 election.

As noted in the tweet below, however, Trump’s opposition to the weak bill had nothing to do with the 2024 election. Nothing at all.

Donalds explained in the tweet above that Trump and other Republicans had lobbied against the bill because it would in fact NOT have resolved the border crisis. If anything, it would have exacerbated it.

For example, the bill would have codified catch and release, allowed nearly two million criminal aliens entry into the U.S., funded sanctuary cities, granted taxpayer-funded lawyers to illegals, and more.

The so-called “bipartisan” bill championed by Harris and crew was the exact opposite of H.R. 2, an actual border bill crafted by Republicans that the White House and congressional Democrats chose to dismiss.

H.R. 2 would have actually resolved the border crisis by purging the workforce of criminal aliens, tightening asylum eligibility requirements, building additional border fortifications, and much, much more.

Harris isn’t the only one who’s posited this false argument about the “bipartisan” border bill. CNN’s Manu Raju did the same thing during a discussion in late August with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

“No, it wasn’t Trump that killed that bill — Trump’s not in office,” Mullin tried to explain to Raju.

“He lobbied senators to kill it,” Raju pushed back without any evidence. “He lobbied House members to kill it.”

Mullin staunchly disagreed with that assessment.

“No, no, no — that was after the fact that the Biden administration refused to actually negotiate with the Republicans,” he said. “Chuck Schumer didn’t one time reach out to the Republicans to try to talk to us. They never had a working group together.”

The discussion between Mullin and Raju continued with the host bringing up Sen. James Lankford, the Republican who’d worked with Democrats to craft the “bipartisan” bill, but Mullin was ready with a rebuttal.

“James Lankford said the same thing!” he noted. “James Lankford was frustrated because the fact that the Biden administration, the Democrats who started saying they wanted a border deal, did everything they could to kill it.”

In fact, speaking on the Senate floor back in May, Lankford vociferously slammed Democrats for blocking Republicans’ every attempt to amend the “bipartisan” bill to make it as strong as H.R. 2.

“When [Senator] Marco Rubio and Senator Graham brought bills to enforce the Remain in Mexico Program that President Biden’s walked away from, Democrats blocked that vote,” he said. “When Senator Cotton brought up a vote to stop aid for sanctuary cities that incentivize more people coming into the country and disappear, Democrats blocked that vote.”

“When Senator Grassley brought up a bill to deport criminal illegal aliens, Democrats blocked that bill. When Senator Hagerty brought up a bill to deal with increasing funding for ICE and deport more criminal aliens that have already been designated criminal aliens in the United States, Democrats blocked that bill,” he added.

Listen:

(Video Credit: James Lankford)

Mullin meanwhile continued on CNN by providing additional examples of Democrats refusing to negotiate on the bill.

“Tell me one single meeting that we had,” he said. “Tell me one debate that we actually had about on the floor. Tell me how Chuck Schumer one time allowed it to be open for amendments. He didn’t. He absolutely closed it, and at the end of the day, it was a take it or leave it.”

“The Democrats, not one single time, try to actually negotiate with Republicans. And so, President Trump didn’t kill it. The Biden administration killed it because they knew they wanted to try doing something because the administration has been awful on the border and that hasn’t changed,” he added.

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