August 4, 2024
Black Conservative Who Reportedly Organized Trump’s Chick-Fil-A Visit Repeats Lie About Kamala Harris At Rally
Montgomery also reportedly orchestrated his appearance at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta.
Michaelah Montgomery, a former Georgia Republican Party staffer and coordinator for the organization Conserve the Culture, which engages HBCU students open to conservative ideas, spoke at an Aug. 3 Trump rally in Atlanta, where she rehashed a long-debunked rumor about Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to the Associated Press, Montgomery orchestrated Trump’s appearance at an Atlanta Chick-fil-A in April, which resulted in a few viral videos. It was later reported to be staged with Montgomery acting as a customer at the fast food restaurant. There were photo ops of her hugging Trump at the Chick-fil-A in Atlanta. And he often retells the story of a Black woman who hugged him and praised him during his stop.
According to Real Clear Politics, Trump continued peddling his mythology that he didn’t know who Montgomery was despite her orchestrating the appearance.
“I walked in, she’s behind the counter and she didn’t know I was coming and she goes, ‘It’s President Trump.’ She looks at me. ‘It’s President Trump. You saved my college.’ And I said, ‘How the hell do you know that?’ She said, ‘You are’. This one is so smart, so sharp. She grabbed me,” Trump recounted.
At the recent Trump rally, Montgomery criticized Harris, saying that she hasn’t done anything for the Black community: “Aside from her record as a prosecutor, why don’t we ask Mrs. Willie Brown if Kamala Harris cares about Black families?” The remark was in reference to the widely circulated falsehood that Harris dated former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown while he was married.
In 2020, Reuters fact-checked the rumor about Brown and Harris that had spread on social media. They concluded, “Although the photo appears to be authentic, he was separated from his wife for more than a decade when he and Harris dated in the mid-1990s. Their relationship, which ended in 1995, was not a secret.”
Since Montgomery’s comments at the rally, some on X, formerly known as Twitter, have called out her being allegedly arrested for fraud. Others pointed out an association with controversial conservative political activist Charlie Kirk and right-wing podcaster Candace Owens. Trump, meanwhile, called her “incredible.”
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