As Hurricane Milton was approaching Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris posted a video of herself on a phone call with St. Petersburg, Florida, Mayor Ken Welch pretending to have some role in hurricane preparedness.
It turns out that the clip had to be edited to remove a section of the staged phone call where she called herself a “devout public servant” and denounced bureaucracy for getting in the way of federal aid, the New York Post reported. A full 38 seconds were removed from the two-minute call.
“I am a devout public servant, but I know how bureaucracy and red tape can get in the way of getting stuff done in a timely manner,” Harris said in the removed section, according to a copy of a more complete recording obtained by the Post.
Another revision removed a comment from Harris coaching Welch, a fellow Democrat, on how to stand tall for his constituents.
“Your folks are…