copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2022-10-11): Thanks to Darnella Frazier, the courageous 17-year-old who captured Officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee into the neck of the handcuffed George Floyd Jr. for nearly nine minutes, the world watched a 46-year-old Black man beg for his life. Twenty-six million people took to the streets across the country and around the world, risking their health and safety to face down riot police, tear gas, rubber bullets, and the Covid-19 pandemic to demand justice for Floyd and an end to state-sanctioned racial violence. [...] I never questioned this narrative before I had to reconstruct my father’s life. Turns out Lottie was 17, not 13, when she gave birth. The birth certificate, filed five months after Donald’s birth, listed Allien and Rafe as parents, contradicting what I found in the 1940 census. For many Black families facing economic hardship, intrafamily adoptions were not unusual—a legacy of Reconstruction, when formerly enslaved people tried to reconstitute families after generations of forced separation. [...] Adapted from After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America, edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams (Haymarket Books).
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2020-08-24): LIE 1: Kamala Harris ain’t Black ANSWER: WRONG! And absurd! Kamala is a Black woman! Full stop. Periodt. No. Her going to Howard University and pledging in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, does not prove she’s Black! That’s the stupidest defense I have ever heard. Wow! Although I went to Seton Hall University, a mostly white college and didn’t pledge a sorority, I’m still Black! I’m Blackety Black! LOL. But yes, Kamala is Black, because she was born Black. Nuff Said.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2020-01-01): But in today’s world, and in the neighborhood that we live in, I think that she might not be thinking of herself as, if you will, "African-American." She’s light, and in terms of cultural traits associated with being black, she may not develop any. And if you can hear that and not flinch, that’s what we mean by getting past race—that you let go of the idea that one drop means that you better know what color you are, especially because you’re going to have to think about how the cops are going to treat you, or whatever it is, in this context of talking about a young girl who’s light-skinned. It’s not as if we’re going to pretend that race doesn’t exist, but we’re going to let go of the balkanizing tendencies that frankly remind me of The Birth of a Nation. So, two things: 1) letting go of race doesn’t mean that you’re not black. It just means that we want to get beyond D.W. Griffith.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-03-11): What her family had gone through should never have happened. Unless Congress acts, it could happen again. [...] What her family had gone through should have never happened as well. But it’s happening to too many others. [...] I know the last five months have been gut-wrenching for so many people — for the Israeli people, for the Palestinian people, and so many here in America.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-08-19): "Who is Kamala Harris?" Caroline Wanga, the CEO and president of Essence Ventures asked, as she began a "Chief to Chief" conversation, the live version of an interview published each month in Essence, the Black women’s magazine. The conversations are supposed to illuminate what makes the subjects human, their struggles and lessons learned, the moments of victory and defeat and what distinguishes Black women who lead. [...] Born in October 1964, Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother who met as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. The Harrises were committed civil rights activists during a time of radical political thought and activity and also, respectively, an economist and a breast cancer researcher. Harris was a toddler when Donald Harris’s academic career forced the family to decamp to Illinois, where Harris’s younger sister, Maya, was born. When Harris’s parents split up in the early 1970s, Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, moved Kamala and Maya back to Berkeley. The girls were raised with direct engagement with two cultures and a firm grounding in the realities of race in the United States. There were trips to an area Hindu temple, and lots of south Indian food which, with a few spice changes, Gopalan would often make into soul food.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2021-01-22): Nowhere to be seen as Kamala Harris shattered racial and gender barriers to become vice-president was Donald Harris, 82, a Stanford University economist [...] Kamala Harris pictured with her father Donald. Photo by Jamaica Global [...] Nowhere to be seen was Kamala Harris’s sole surviving parent, father Donald, as Harris shattered centuries-old racial and gender barriers to become America’s vice president.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-08-01): A number of MAGA and Republican figures are attacking Vice President Kamala Harris' heritage after Donald Trump said she "happened to turn Black." [...] In response, Trump said that Harris previously embraced only her Indian heritage—though, as an NABJ moderator said, Harris has always also identified as Black. The vice president attended Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., and in 2017, she became a member of the Congressional Black Caucus while serving as a senator. [...] While posting an apparent image of Harris' birth certificate on X, formerly Twitter, Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist, wrote, "Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN."
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2020-12-18): Harris’ immigrant background does not minimize her Blackness. But some voters see Black immigrants as an "elevated minority," Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University, told me. [...] Harris is able to tap into a "superman mythology" of hailing "from everywhere and nowhere," Greer told me. Like Obama, she has a multifaceted image that allows voters to draw on parts of her identity that resonate with them, just as Obama’s white Kansas ancestry — via his mother — helped him connect with white Midwestern voters. [...] "Harris being the child of immigrants doesn’t exempt her from anti-Blackness," Carter told me.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-08-02): After the NABJ appearance, Trump posted on social media, "Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black. This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!" [...] On Thursday, Trump shared a post by far right-activist Laura Loomer that said Harris is "NOT black and never has been." "Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN," Loomer wrote, adding that Harris is descended from slave owners as supposed further proof that she isn’t Black.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Former President Donald Trump made at least 10 false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris in his first campaign rally since she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Trump, speaking in North Carolina, attacked Harris at length with a flurry of assertions about her personal and political past, her record as vice president and her policy stances. We’re still looking into some of his claims, but at least 10 were wrong. [...] Trump claimed of Harris: "She was the border czar, but she never went to the border."
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-09-11): VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: That's not true. [...] VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: That's not true. [mouthed, not audible] [...] VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: I think it's – I mean honestly, I think it's a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has consistently over the course of his career attempted to use race to divide the American people. You know, I do believe that the vast majority of us know that we have so much more in common than what separates us. And we don't want this kind of approach that is just constantly trying to divide us, and especially by race. And let's remember how Donald Trump started. He was a, a, a—land, he owned land, he owned buildings, and he was investigated because he refused to rent property to Black families. Let's remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five. Took out a full-page ad calling for their execution. This is the same individual who spread birther lies about the first Black President of the United States. And I think the American people want better than that. Want better than this.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2023-03-26): But I know now. And Haley should too. [...] Her willingness to use race when it helps her rather than her constituents is clear from her record. She prevented maybe a quarter of a million poor residents in South Carolina from securing health coverage when she refused billions of dollars for a Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. One of her most notable acts during her first term was signing into law a bill that established a new state law enforcement unit and required cops to check the immigration status of people they stopped or arrested if they suspected they might be here illegally, an anti-immigrant move that was red meat for her base. (Haley’s parents benefitted from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which smoothed the path for highly skilled immigrants.) [...] It was another deflection from the racism she supported in the form of Trump, and from the very real racism that continues to hold back too many of the Black and brown people who grew up like where Haley and I did. It was a reminder to GOP voters that she is eager to give them a pass on the issue, ensuring them she won’t make them too uncomfortable in exchange for their vote.
Claim: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN. … Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.” (Laura Loomer, 2024-07-31)
Evidence (2024-07-31): Today Donald Trump sought to question Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity, much as he rose to political prominence doubting Barack Obama’s origins. He mused that she had always cast herself as Indian, until one day, suddenly, magically, she turned Black. Well, this is false, first of all. And dumb. Harris went to Howard University, an historic… Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-07): There was a major decline in the case-fatality rate — the number of coronavirus deaths divided by known cases — compared to an earlier phase in the epidemic. However, "groundbreaking therapies" are only part of the reason. One factor in a lower case-fatality rate is the huge increase in coronavirus testing. In the first weeks and months of the outbreak, testing focused on those who were more seriously ill, including nursing home residents. That kept the case-fatality rate high. By the time Operation Warp Speed had announced its scope and leadership, most of the decline in the case-fatality rate had already occurred.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2021-03-20): Getting the facts right on Operation Warp Speed by Paul Roderick Gregory, opinion contributor - 03/20/21 7:00 PM ET by Paul Roderick Gregory, opinion contributor - 03/20/21 7:00 PM ET Former President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed (OWS) on May 15, 2020. OWS was constituted as a projected $18 billion business-government-military partnership, charged to "produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics." No date was set for fulfilling the 300 million doses target, other than the understanding that it would be "accelerated" relative to conventional standards. [...] Moderna operation warp speed
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2024-01-02): Years after the darkest days of the pandemic, many people overlook the enduring importance of Operation Warp Speed. When then-President Donald Trump announced it, skeptics mocked its Star Trek–inspired name and worried that officials would cut corners on safety to produce a vaccine before the 2020 election. Since then, others have faulted it as overly generous to drug companies. OWS fell short of its manufacturing targets, and the vaccine shortages of early 2021 prompted more criticism of the initiative. Democrats have been loath to give any credit to Donald Trump and his underlings, while Republicans—many of whom were skeptical of the vaccine push—struggle to admit that the federal government can do anything right.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2021-01-25): When President Joe Biden took office last week, his administration swiftly announced it would be renaming Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's crash program to develop COVID-19 vaccines. The decision puzzled immunologist Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Warp Speed, but he attributes it to a word he says with disdain: politics. Slaoui recently resigned from his post, but has agreed to help the Biden transition team into February. In a lengthy chat with Science from his home in Pennsylvania last week, he reflected on his time with Operation Warp Speed, discussing challenging interactions with former President Donald Trump and how to be better prepared for a future pandemic. Never a Trump supporter—he's a Democrat—Slaoui had reluctantly taken the Warp Speed job because, as the former head of vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), he thought he could help solve one of the world's most urgent problems. [...] I'm surprised we got an email yesterday saying, "As of tomorrow, you cannot use the name Operation Warp Speed any more." I asked myself, why? What's the added value? This is probably why I'm not a politician. It just escapes rationality and understanding. Because in a way, everybody that works under Operation Warp Speed feels like, "What did we do wrong?"
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2021-02-11): Operation Warp Speed: Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Development Status and Efforts to Address Manufacturing Challenges Operation Warp Speed was a federal effort that supported multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates to speed up development. [...] Operation Warp Speed (OWS)—a partnership between the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Defense (DOD)—aimed to help accelerate the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. GAO found that OWS and vaccine companies adopted several strategies to accelerate vaccine development and mitigate risk. For example, OWS selected vaccine candidates that use different mechanisms to stimulate an immune response (i.e., platform technologies; see figure). Vaccine companies also took steps, such as starting large-scale manufacturing during clinical trials and combining clinical trial phases or running them concurrently. Clinical trials gather data on safety and efficacy, with more participants in each successive phase (e.g., phase 3 has more participants than phase 2).
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2021-11-05): On today's episode, we look at the story behind the story of Operation Warp Speed and how the COVID-19 vaccines were made in record time.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-28): The initiative — to accelerate the development of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics — lacks the scale, and the degree of secrecy, of the effort to build the atomic bomb. But Operation Warp Speed is largely an abstraction in Washington, with little known about who works there other than its top leaders, or how it operates. Even pharmaceutical companies hoping to offer help or partnerships have labored to figure out who to contact. [...] Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, approvingly called Operation Warp Speed a "talent show." [...] Operation Warp Speed is much more than a splashy name for an initiative focused on doling out purchase orders. The benefits for companies who land a Warp Speed contract go far beyond just money, according to one of the companies with a contract.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-11-13): DR. SLAOUI: Thank you, Mr. President. Hi, everybody. So Operation Warp Speed’s mission is to enable and accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutics to help control the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives. [...] Operation Warp Speed didn’t only focus on vaccines; we also looked at therapeutics. And we have worked with a number of companies developing monoclonal antibodies, in particular, that are able to neutralize the virus. [...] Operation Warp Speed has always had one goal: saving lives. The President has given OWS the independence it needs to achieve that goal and ensure that we’re following the procedures that Americans expect for any medical product they take. At every step, ensuring patient safety has been our top priority.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-10): "You don’t hear that from the press very often. They don’t like to talk about that. So the fatality rate, 85% — think of that — since April." [...] More to the point, Operation Warp Speed only announced its scope and leadership on May 15, and by that time, the case-fatality rate had already fallen most of the way from its peak. [...] In the meantime, by the time Operation Warp Speed had announced its scope and leadership, most of the decline in the case-fatality rate had already occurred.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2024-08-15): Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a public–private partnership initiated by the United States government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.[1][2] The first news report of Operation Warp Speed was on April 29, 2020,[3][4][5] and the program was officially announced on May 15, 2020.[1] It was headed by Moncef Slaoui from May 2020 to January 2021 and by David A. Kessler from January to February 2021.[6] At the end of February 2021, Operation Warp Speed was transferred into the responsibilities of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.[7] [...] Operation Warp Speed, initially funded with about $10 billion from the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) passed by the United States Congress on March 27, 2020,[1] was an interagency program that includes components of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA); the Department of Defense; private firms; and other federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.[1]
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-12-21): HHS > Coronavirus Home > Fact Sheet: Explaining Operation Warp Speed [...] Fact Sheet: Explaining Operation Warp Speed Operation Warp Speed's goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics (collectively known as countermeasures).
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-12-08): I’m honored to welcome doctors, scientists, industry executives, and state and local leaders to our historic Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit. It’s been some journey for all of us. It’s been an incredible success. [...] Before Operation Warp Speed, the typical timeframe for development and approval, as you know, could be infinity. And we were very, very happy that we were able to get things done at a level that nobody has ever seen before. The gold standard vaccine has been done in less than nine months. [...] While we begin to swiftly deploy the vaccine, we’ll continue to expand the availability of groundbreaking therapies. Since April, advances in treatments have already helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 percent. Think of that: 85 percent. (Applause.) It’s an incredible number.