Kamala Harris Caught Lying in New Memoir: “Embarrassing Errors” and Silence on Fact-Checking

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is facing fresh ridicule after her long-anticipated campaign memoir hit shelves last month—only to be riddled with factual blunders that critics say expose her as careless and self-serving.

Despite repeated requests, Harris’ office refused to confirm whether a fact-checker ever reviewed the book before publication. That silence has only fueled questions about the Democrat’s credibility as she attempts to reshape the story of her failed 2024 run against President Donald J. Trump.

In one of the most glaring mistakes, Harris repeatedly referred to the 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport bombing as “marines,” omitting that the dead included a soldier and a Navy corpsman.

“That wasn’t just sloppy—it’s disrespectful,” said retired Army Sgt. James Patton, whose unit served in Afghanistan. “The families of those troops deserve accuracy and honesty, not revisionist history in a politician’s book.”

Harris framed the error in a passage blasting Joe Biden’s debate performance against Trump, saying she couldn’t believe Biden had “forgotten” the tragedy. But observers note that her own misidentification of the fallen undermines her attack.

The Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan—widely seen as a debacle—left billions in U.S. military equipment in Taliban hands and emboldened adversaries like Russia. “The withdrawal showed weakness, and everyone saw it,” said foreign policy analyst Mark Stein. “Putin took that as a green light for Ukraine.”

Harris’ errors didn’t stop with Afghanistan. In the afterword of her memoir, she slammed Trump’s presidential pardons—including that of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road marketplace—calling him a “fentanyl dealer.”

But Ulbricht was never charged with fentanyl crimes. Convicted in 2015 on conspiracy and narcotics distribution charges, he became a cause célèbre for libertarians who argued his life-without-parole sentence was wildly excessive.

President Trump granted him a full pardon in January 2025, citing government overreach. “He was given two life sentences plus 40 years. Ridiculous!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Ulbricht, newly freed, fired back at Harris directly. “Hey @KamalaHarris, you called me ‘the fentanyl dealer’ in your new book,” he wrote on X. “The truth has never mattered to you. The goal is just to make me and President Trump look bad at all costs, isn’t it?”

Harris has also been criticized for claiming the 2024 race was “the closest election of the 21st century.” That’s not true. George W. Bush’s razor-thin victory over Al Gore in 2000 remains the closest modern contest.

Trump beat Harris decisively, winning every battleground state, 312 electoral votes, and a 2-million-vote advantage nationwide. Harris’ insistence otherwise has Republicans accusing her of sour grapes.

“She lost. She knows she lost. The numbers don’t lie,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY). “This is the same spin and denial we’ve come to expect from Democrats who think rules don’t apply to them.”

Harris’ memoir hasn’t just stirred Republican critics—it’s also enraged Biden loyalists. The book portrays the former president as “reckless” for running again at age 81, and accuses the Biden White House of abandoning her when bad press hit.

“She’s trying to salvage her career by throwing Biden under the bus,” said one former Biden aide. “But she’s rewriting history to cover up her own failures.”

Harris’ book tour continues this fall with stops in New York, London, and Toronto. But instead of boosting her political standing, the rollout has only deepened the perception that she is error-prone and bitter about her loss.

“Her book was supposed to be her comeback moment,” said Republican strategist David Bossie. “Instead, it’s an embarrassing reminder of why the American people rejected her in 2024.”