Sean Spicer Insists Muslim Ban Is Not A Ban, But He And Trump Both Called It One [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer repeatedly denied on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order barring travelers from certain countries was in fact a “ban,” although the president and Spicer himself called it just that on Monday.
Since Trump signed the executive order on Friday, “1 million people have come into this country. That’s not a ban,” a testy Spicer insisted at the White House daily press briefing. “A ban would mean people can’t get in, and we’ve clearly seen hundreds of thousands of people come into our country from other countries.”
Spicer’s decision to litigate the meaning of a term both he and the president had employed just hours earlier underscores their contradictory attempts to claim credit for keeping a campaign promise while countering critics who say it violates the American ideal of religious pluralism by unjustly targeting Muslims.
The executive order bars travelers from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Syria from entering the United States, and suspends refugee resettlement from Syria indefinitely. Trump has insisted the travel restrictions are critical to preventing terrorist attacks, though no immigrant from any of those countries has committed a fatal act of terror on U.S. soil.
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Down the memory hole it goes.
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