The Biden administration has been hiring illusionists.
First, they denied that there was a border crisis. But there was one.
Then Biden claimed he had no idea Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban so quickly. But there were internal memos in the State Department that warned precisely that.
Then Biden was caught trying to persuade then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to lie about the situation in his country because of perception problems.
Now comes the revelation that Vice President Kamala Harris’s chat with children about NASA was staged, featuring paid child actors.
The YouTube series Get Curious with Vice President Harris debuted on Oct. 7, featuring Harris with five students having a casual conversation. Harris provides some inspiring life advice for the children before pivoting to discussing space.
Watching it, you can almost see the puppet strings coming from Harris’s hands.
One of the students, Trevor Bernardino, 13, was interviewed Sunday by KSBW-TV in Monterey, California. He confirmed that he was selected not because of his academic merit or rigor but because producers thought he did well in his audition. “Then, after that, like a week later, my agent called me and was like, ‘Hey, Trevor, you booked it,'” he said.
The Washington Examiner’s Katherine Doyle interviewed Carlo Bernardino, Trevor’s father, who confirmed that all the children in the video were paid actors.
“All five of them are actors,” Bernardino said.
“He’s a child actor — he’s been trying to do this type of thing for a while. And so he has a manager and an agent in LA and they send him castings,” Bernardino said. “This was a casting call, a very specific one where he had to write, essentially, a monologue about what he’s really passionate about, and he wrote a monologue about the environment.”
Why does any child need to be cast to sit down with the vice president and talk about NASA? Moreover, why do they need to be paid? Yes, Democrats like to spend money recklessly, but this seems a bit too far even for them.
This is a gathering with the vice president. Many children would have eagerly participated for free, although perhaps their comments for the camera would have been less predictable. And maybe that’s the problem.
What does it say about Harris that she cannot have a nonrehearsed, nonscripted conversation with children about space? At best, the show feels like an episode of a children’s program such as Sesame Street. At worst, the show reeks of state-sponsored propaganda. Harris is deeply unpopular, so here’s an attempt to humanize her.
One more question: if something as simple as this has to be staged, can the Biden administration be trusted as genuine about anything?
