Reporter Quits Over "Incorrect" Kamala Harris Story: "Ordered To Write"

"The Kamala Harris story - an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against - was my breaking point," Laura Italiano tweeted Tuesday afternoon.

A longtime New York Post reporter said she has resigned after being "ordered" to write a false story that claimed undocumented minors were being welcomed to the United States with copies of a children's book written by Vice President Kamala Harris. "The Kamala Harris story - an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against - was my breaking point," Laura Italiano tweeted Tuesday afternoon, several hours after her viral article about the books had been deleted from the Post's website and replaced with corrected versions. Italiano, who has written for the Post since the 1990s, according to news archives, could not be immediately reached for comment. Since the Post published the story on its front page Saturday, the conservative mediascape has been in an uproar over the supposed distribution of Harris's 2019 book, "Superheroes Are Everywhere," at migrant shelters. A slew of prominent Republicans expressed outrage over the possibility that taxpayers were funding the program. Even the White House press secretary was grilled about it.