— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 30, 2018
Of course, Trump has been a serial fantasist, and proud racist, since at least the 1980s. But some of you will remember that when Ronald Reagan started insisting he’d helped liberate Dachau in person — and not just seen films about the horror — it was later cited as the first public evidence of his decline into Alzheimers.
The president claims ICE has liberated entire American towns from MS-13, which is something I've never seen on the news. Sounds like a topic you should hold special Senate hearings on, sir. Because surely he's not lying. https://t.co/ndjyyrCsQz
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 30, 2018
If the president of the United States had watched ICE liberate a town, the probability that we would have seen live video feed of it is 100 percent.
— Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) June 30, 2018
"Everyone agrees [MS-13] is bloodthirsty. [But] most of the other assertions I've heard from the Trump admin…have almost no connection to what I'm seeing…The gang is not invading the country. They're not posing as fake families. They're not growing." https://t.co/PiDsDao6tR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 30, 2018
… When confronted last week with audio obtained by ProPublica of wailing children separated from their parents, White House Communications Adviser Mercedes Schlapp said, “What’s very heartbreaking is to watch Americans who have lost their children because of the MS-13 gang members.” But the vast majority of MS-13 victims are young immigrants, many of them undocumented.
I often think about this when I’m out reporting. This year, I have reached out to current gang members and added them as friends on Facebook. I’ve visited the homes of people on the local clique’s kill list, and heard their police-issued panic buttons hum under tables and behind doors. I’ve explored the wooded areas Long Island police call “the killing fields,” where bodies have been found. I feel safe doing this because MS-13 rarely goes after true outsiders — people who are not friends with any gang members or targets for recruitment. The closest I’ve found in Long Island to a totally random victim was a worker at a Central American deli who was hurt when a bullet passed through the head of a targeted victim.
The White House put out a statement last month that described recent murders carried out by “MS-13 animals.” Lost in the controversy over whether it was OK to call gang members animals was the fact that of the six identified victims, five were immigrants and the other was a child of immigrants…
This is of course ridiculous, but the ease with which Republicans have transitioned from fear-mongering about the Soviet Union/Communists to al Qaeda/Islamic jihadists to MS-13/immigrants is … instructive https://t.co/ZgHEYWBrLT
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) June 30, 2018
TRUMP on immigration: "You get rid of ICE, you will be afraid to walk out of your house… how about Long Island? They actually liberate towns."
(FACT CHECK: Not a single town in America has been liberated from MS-13.) pic.twitter.com/yDYhozm1KJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2018
Fantasy Tough Guy Squads are protecting Granpa Dollhands and his dumbest most loyal followers from the dusky rapists hiding under their beds! WHY MUST YOU LIE-BRALS BE SUCH HATERZ AS TO DENY THE IMAGINARY RAPISTS UNDER OUR BEDS!?! WHY CAN YOU NOT RESPECT THAT WE ARE TRULY SCARED!!!
Of course, abusing actual undocumented humans doesn’t “cure” whatever personal terrors drive their voters’ xenophobia, but fortunately for the Repubs, there’s always another batch of SCARY NOT-LIKE-US MONSTERS masks to gin up the rubes.
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