One of the strangest moments of last night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump came when Trump brought up Harris’s father, a well-respected left-wing economist. In reality, Donald Harris seems to have a strained-at-best relationship with his daughter, due at least in part to their profound political differences. During the 2020 Democratic primaries, Professor Harris publicly criticized Kamala for making cheap appeals based on “identity politics.”

In Trump’s imagination, though, father and daughter see eye to eye: “Everybody knows she’s a Marxist. Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics. And he taught her well.”

He also portrayed her as deeply sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians killed, maimed, or displaced from their homes by the Israeli military. And at the end of the debate, he accused her of wanting to give every American free “government health care.” (The horror!)