The first and likely only presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is in the books, and the reactions have been fast and furious. 

How do I think it went? Given I wrote pre-debate about the traps the former president should avoid, and he proceeded to walk into essentially all of them, it'd be dishonest for me to say I think he did well. I wanted a repeat of the disciplined, cool, and collected Trump we saw against Joe Biden, and that didn't happen. Whether that helps or hurts him (or doesn't change anything) will be decided soon enough.

With that said, I could also talk about how historically terrible and biased the moderators were. They made Candy Crowley look honest. All of the "fact-checks" went in one direction. All of the interruptions went in one direction. All of the follow-ups went in one direction. It was so bad that no Republican should ever agree to do a debate on ABC News again. Perhaps I'll write more about that in another piece.

What about the merits of what was said, though? I know substance doesn't matter to the chattering class, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to ignore it. On that front, there was one moment during the debate that sent Democrats rushing to social media to mock Donald Trump. It came during the immigration segment, with the former president proclaiming that Haris wanted to use taxpayer money to provide transgender sex-change surgeries to detained illegal immigrants. 

“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison."

- Donald Trump on Kamala Harris during the presidential debate pic.twitter.com/K31GDQPBoe

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 11, 2024

Crazy, right? That dastardly orange man was just making stuff up again, I guess. Who would ever support such a wild idea?

"She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison" is the WILDEST thing I've ever heard in any debate. EVER.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) September 11, 2024

A Day in the Life of an Immigrant, According to Donald Trump:

- wake up in jail
- get your transgender operation
- for breakfast, dog
- take over Seattle
- for dinner, cat

— Ginny Hogan (@ginnyhogan_) September 11, 2024

Nah Trump really said “Now she wants to do Transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison”. I’ve been laughing at the absurdity of that made up scenario for 5 mins straight 😂😂😂

— Roheezy (@roheezyraps) September 11, 2024

There's just one very big, exceptionally large problem: What Trump said is true. 

As RedState reported on Monday, CNN's K-File recently unearthed an ACLU questionnaire from Kamala Harris' first presidential run. She literally pledged her support for using taxpayer money to provide transgender sex change operations to detained illegal immigrants and federal prisoners. 

SEE: Unearthed ACLU Questionnaire Exposes Kamala Harris' Dangerously Liberal Beliefs

As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.    

Even more crazy is that it's 100% undeniably true. https://t.co/kQcHOHS01N pic.twitter.com/PcloRSTfm1

— EJ (@Ejmiller25) September 11, 2024

What an absolute own-goal by Democrats. They thought they had a dunk on Trump because not even they realized how incredibly insane Harris is. In the end, though, all their mockery did was draw attention to the fact that, yes, she is as dangerously radical as Republicans say she is.

What's even crazier is that Kamala Harris actually did support giving illegal aliens transgender surgeries (paid for by taxpayers). https://t.co/ssEw3wVEw0 https://t.co/LALMHt57dT

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 11, 2024

Harris' positions are so ludicrous that not even her own supporters believe they're true. Perhaps that should cause a bit of introspection. It won't, but it should.