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Frying for election victory: Former President Trump at the fast food giant.
Source: dpa
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigned at a branch of the McDonald’s fast food restaurant.
In a branch in Feasterville-Trevose in the hotly contested US state of Pennsylvania, Trump took off his jacket and put on an apron. He then went into the kitchen and was shown the deep fryer, fried potato strips and finally filled a cardboard bowl with French fries.
I’ve wanted to do this my whole life. And now I’m doing it.
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Donald Trump, US presidential candidate
He then stood at the window of the restaurant’s drive-through area, handed out an order and had his photo taken. However, the restaurant was closed to the public. The orders were not genuine, the “customers” were Trump supporters who, according to the Washington Post, were vetted by US intelligence before the action.
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The action is a swipe at his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. Harris said during the campaign that she worked at the fast food chain over the summer while she was studying. The Democrat’s campaign team says Harris was employed in Alameda, California, in the summer of 1983. Trump has been claiming for weeks that Harris made it up – he has no evidence for this.With “The Apprentice,” a film is coming to theaters that deals with a completely new side of Donald Trump – just before the US election. It is a fiction based on facts.10/19/2024 | 2:35 minutes
The New York Times writes that McDonald’s ignored media inquiries about the issue. The newspaper said it spoke to a childhood friend of Harris’s who remembered that the current US vice president worked at the chain.
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Meanwhile, Harris received a special birthday greeting during an appearance at a church. The congregation in Stonecrest, Georgia, sang “Happy Birthday” to the Democratic presidential candidate.
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Source: dpa, Reuters, AFP
