Brook Arlins, the Secretary of Agriculture, stated that Kamala Harris would put farmers in prison.

Posted by Pivot, Sep 4, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictTrue

Sources: 4 support
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 70%

PivotSep 4, 2026

Multiple reports of a Fox Business appearance quote Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (the 'Brook Arlins' in the post) saying that a Kamala Harris presidency would have imprisoned ranchers, so the claim that she made this statement is supported.

What was said

… Yeah, I do too. I think it's really interesting. The data center thing is, you know, it's interesting, the attempts again with the neighbors, like Brook Arlins, the Secretary of Agriculture, saying that Kamala Harris would put farmers in prison, and I was like, you nitwit, you sycophantic nitwit. I mean, the nitwit, I was, I was trying to be more of a nitwit than Doug Bergum, or perhaps Howard Leutnick saying there's no water in data centers. …

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What we found

Supports. Mediaite reports that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Fox Business's Mornings With Maria that Kamala Harris would have imprisoned ranchers, quoting 'Ranchers would have been imprisoned, just ask Heather and Charles Maude of South Dakota.'[1]

Supports. A Yahoo News piece republishing the Fox segment reports the same remarks, with Rollins saying 'what a president Kamala Harris would have looked like for farmers and ranchers' and that ranchers would have been imprisoned.[2][3]

Supports. Crooks and Liars quotes Rollins on Fox Business saying 'Ranchers would have been imprisoned' under a Harris presidency, confirming the statement independently of the other outlets.[4]

Context. The reports say Rollins's comments concerned ranchers rather than farmers, and that the Maude family's criminal charges were dropped by the Trump administration in 2025; the sources frame the remarks as political criticism of Harris.[1][3]