Media Jumps On Debunked Lie.
LI: There they go again. The Democrat media just can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to President Trump. Too many this weekend jumped on a #FakeNews story that was debunked a year ago about Trump calling illegal aliens and asylum seekers “animals.”
Stacey wrote about Democrat and 2020 presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s casual lie about Trump calling all illegal aliens “animals.” The president, of course, said no such thing and was clearly referring to the violent criminal gang MS-13.
Stacey wrote:
Trump did not describe asylum seekers as rapists, criminals, animals. He was talking about murderous gangs like MS-13. Here’s what he actually said in May 2018 (bolded emphasis added for context):
[Fresno County] Sheriff Margaret Mims: Thank you. There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.
The President: We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.
And in July 2017:
Trump’s visit to a [New York] county racked by violence attributed to the [MS-13] gang — 17 murders over 18 months, according to local police — aimed to give “power and poignancy” to his message that lawmakers must do more to combat illegal immigration” a White House aide told reporters in a briefing.
In stark language, Trump said MS-13 members have stabbed, raped and murdered young people and “transformed peaceful parks and beautiful quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields.” He added: “They’re animals. We cannot tolerate as a society the spilling of innocent, young, wonderful, vibrant people.”
The AP had to retract its mischaracterization of Trump’s comments last year (when the lie was first debunked).
I saw him say it.
Ridiculous. He actually said, “There are good animals on both sides.”
damn you liberals, you can’t even play telephone right!
you.idiots.
Interestingly enough, the guy who reposted it a couple of days ago took it down today. Well, he reposted it but also said that he now knows that it is false.
And then someone pointed out that this relative nobody has reached tens of thousands of people the past few days, no doubt attracting many followers. Still think it was an accident?
Even lies that have been proven as lies are useful to sway the uninformed voter. “All illegals are rapists”,”I like to grab them by the pussy”, and “White supremacists are good people”, all lies and all easily debunked but they have legs because some iterations of such are already out there.
The MSM is lazy, why make something up when they can just recycle past lies?
And NO, he did not say there are “good people on both sides”.
THEY CANNOT GET OVER THEMSELVES and THEIR TDS.
The more Beto and Buttgig talk
the more they make asses of themselves.
Nineteen months to go
Sit back and watch how it plays out.