Trump Says He Only Called Gang-Affiliated Immigrants 'Animals.' That's Not True.

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Matt Shuham | May 17, 2018 3:31 pm

President Donald Trump on Thursday tried to revise his statement the previous day that the United States was committed to deporting undocumented immigrant “animals.”

“I’m referring, and you know I’m referring, to the MS-13 gangs that are coming in,” Trump told an inquiring reporter while he sat next to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

“If you look a little bit further on in the tape you will see that, so I’m actually surprised you’re asking this question, because most people got it right,” he claimed, adding later: “When the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country I refer to them as animals. And guess what, I always will.”

Trump did not specify Wednesday — when Link to tweet
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[underpants]

1. Wow he's such a master of branding and the media

[Freethinker65]

2. Ok. Follow up questions: Who exactly does Trump think sanctuary cities seek to protect?

He purposefully tries to muddy the waters by lumping all undocumented immigrants together. Will he admit the sanctuary cities have come about as a way to protect undocumented students, businesspeople, workers, and their families that have been positively contributing to their communities for years?

Watch him try to weasel out of that.

[RockRaven]

3. The problem with being an inarticulate, diarrhea-mouthed bigot

is that nobody gives you the benefit of the doubt when it comes to parsing exactly who you were intending to be an asshole towards... tough luck there.

Also, if you are going to try to weasel out of your sh*t-heel statements, maybe review the transcript before dissembling to reporters about what you said because you DID NOT say what you now claim to have said, and it is easy to prove.

[ProudLib72]

4. That's what all the bots, trolls, idiots were claiming on Twitter

Lame excuse. If the narrative gets you in trouble because it exposes your racism, attempt to rewrite the narrative and blame all the "libtards" for not understanding perfectly clear speech.

[erronis]

5. Ya know, it doesn't give a dump-shit since all it cares about is attention

It grew up in a family that didn't expect positive results from the children. And that's a winning model.

Dump will die happily just knowing how many column-inches (for those of you old enough to understand) he got. Was it more than the Kenyan guy? Was it more than Mao/Hitler/Attila? WTF does positive/negative mean? All attention is ego-stroking.

And as Don the Dump would say: If you don't like me, FU!

[flibbitygiblets]

6. Stastically, Americans are more likely to be murdered by a midde-aged white male than an "illegal"

Which begs the question: Why is nothing being done about the former? Why so much attention on the latter?

Answer: Because no one really cares; if they did, there'd be free mental health care, and strict gun laws, and a focus on higher-paying jobs. This is about stoking fear and racism to dupe stupid, scared white people into voting for grifting swampmonsters.

I guess the real question is: Why is it that no one cares?

[appalachiablue]

8. +5

[aka-chmeee]

9. And statistically several times more likely than that to be murdered by another sub-group. nt

[Permanut]

7. Evangelicals are walking in lockstep on this..

Bible thumper Bob Dutko has a daily radio show out of Detroit called "Defending the Truth". There's an Orwellian title for ya.

He spent 20 minutes on his show today explaining to us atheists that USAToday and the other mainstream media obviously took Trump's immigration comments out of context, and that this is a good example fake news.