From the E-Mailbag…

My old pal Pat O'Neill just wrote me with a good point…

As you probably know, most McDonald's restaurants are not owned nor operated by the McD's corporation. Rather, they are owned and operated by franchisees who pay a fee to McD's for use of the name and its products and trademarks.

Therefore, when VP Harris says she worked for McDonald's when she was in college, she does not mean the parent company. She means a local businessman who held the franchise in her town (and who may very likely no longer hold said franchise, since we are talking about some three decades ago).

Trump's challenge on this matter is beyond ridiculous; it is meaningless.

Right. And Trump probably knows that…or someone pointed that out to him. Unless Harris held onto some pay stub from a long time ago or has a photo of her in a McDonald's uniform, there's probably no way she can prove she worked at one. And even if she did, Trump would just say it was a forgery…you know, like Barack Obama's birth certificate. He does have this blanket argument that every statistic, witness, video clip or anything that proves he's wrong about anything is fake. If Harris said today was Thursday, he'd accuse her of using a fake calendar.