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What Do You Mean 'Border Czar?': Axios Hit With Community Note After Contradicting Own Reporting on Kamala Harris

By Eric Bolling Staff

WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN - JULY 23: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024 in West Allis, Wisconsin. Harris made her first campaign appearance as the party's presidential candidate, with an endorsement from President Biden. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Part of Kamala Harris’ presidential makeover involves erasing the fact that she was tasked with fixing the border crisis — and the mainstream media is in on the fix.

According to a Fox News report, Axios was caught trying to deny that Harris was appointed “border czar” despite being put in charge of the border crisis when she took office and using that exact phrasing in its past reporting.

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From Fox News:

Axios was particularly roasted over a piece that seemed to contradict its own previous reporting, and it even updated its own story Wednesday by saying it “incorrectly” called her a border czar in the past.

“The Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the ‘border czar’ title — which she never actually had,” reporter Stef Kight wrote on Wednesday.

Critics pointed out Axios reported in 2021 that Harris was “appointed by Biden as border czar.” Another 2021 Axios report, by Kight herself, was headlined, “Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis.”

Axios was hit with a community note for trying to rewrite history. The note read: On April 14, 2021, Axios’ Shawna Chen confirmed Kamala Harris had been appointed Biden’s “Border Czar” writing: “Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, said she would be looking at the “root causes” that drive migration.”

X users were quick to blast Axios for trying to (so obviously) change the narrative around Harris’ border record.

Check out some X posts below:

 

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