A rumor that circulated online in July 2025 claimed former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris demanded President Donald Trump's arrest and impeachment, as well as the freezing of his financial accounts.
For example, on July 13, a manager of a Facebook page named USA Times posted (archived) a reel with the imprinted caption, "Breaking news Kamala demands Trump's arrest." The reel — Meta's name for brief videos posted on Facebook and Instagram — received nearly 500,000 views.
The reel featured a narrator's voice resembling vocals generated with artificial-intelligence tools, and displayed various footage of Harris and Trump. The narration presented the story as follows:
Breaking news. The game is over for Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on television during a historic conference, and made a statement that is shaking the halls of power in the United States.
On national television, she demanded Trump's immediate impeachment and the total freezing of his accounts. According to Kamala, this is not just about a controversial president, but about an insane and megalomaniac dictator who is putting the country's stability at risk. Harris accused Trump of governing exclusively for the rich while abandoning the working class and persecuting the poorest. The most shocking part came next.
Kamala claimed to have explosive evidence of a crime committed by Trump — something so serious that that, in her words, it would be the definitive checkmate to end his administration. She warned that if immediate action is not taken, Trump could make an irreversible mistake and lead the country to total collapse. "He must be removed immediately," she declared urgently. And the worst part, that evidence is already in the hands of the authorities.
The clock is ticking, and the next few days could change everything.
However, that Facebook reel — as well as a popular TikTok video (archived) also receiving nearly 500,000 views, and other posts on Facebook, TikTok and YouTube — promoted a false claim.
Searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo found no news media outlets confirming Harris made any nationally televised statements from a "historic conference" in which she called for Trump's removal from office or arrest or the freezing of his accounts. Outlets worldwide would have reported on the matter, had she genuinely made such remarks.
Snopes contacted Harris' office to ask if they could officially confirm the fabricated rumor as false. We also sent a message to the manager of the USA Times Facebook page to ask about their content, and will update this story if we receive more information.
The USA Times Facebook page also shared another fabricated claim in a July 12 video (archived), promoting the false rumor that the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Trump to "either deport his own family or resign as president." That clip received more than 800,000 views.
For further reading, a previous fact check examined a similar type of Facebook reel earlier in July, claiming leaked U.S. government memos confirmed Trump's administration was testing "internal travel restrictions" inside U.S. borders.