Several bombshell claims were made last week in an allegedly sworn statement purportedly penned by a staffer at ABC News.
The unverified document alleged close collaboration between the network and Kamala Harris’s team ahead of the debate on September 10, and was first published Sunday by an X account with the name ‘Black Insurrectionist’.
Most notably, it alleged the station gave Harris questions ahead of the presidential showdown, while agreeing to a series of other preconditions.
Also disallowed were inquiries about Harris’s stint as California Attorney General, and those involving her brother-in-law, Tony West. The document includes several other stipulations, as well as redactions obscuring the supposed staffer’s identity.
A statement from ABC did not address the specific claims, instead saying: ‘ABC News followed the debate rules that both campaigns agreed on… No topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.’
The unverified document, said to be a sworn affidavit signed by a notary public on September 9, starts as follows: ‘My name is [redacted.] I reside at [redacted] New York.
‘I have worked for ABC news for over 10 years in various technical and administrative positions.’
The alleged staffer goes on to state how they have ‘observed significant transformations in the nature of news reporting at the organization’ within that span, as well as a ‘shift from unbiased reporting to a model influenced by external factors.’
The person then disclaims they are not a supported of Donald Trump, and that the intent of the document is solely to ‘address concerns regarding perceived biases within news reporting within my employer’s debate.’
The document, again, is dated the day before the event, but proof that the alleged affidavit was written the day indicated remains unseen.
A seal from the notary public described is also absent, though there are a series of redactions supposedly designed to protect the alleged whistleblower’s identity.
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