Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Flashback: Five Times Critics Mocked Trump over Migrant Caravan
They accused Trump of hyping the threat as recently as early November, claiming that the migrants were hundreds of miles away and that only a fraction of the caravan would make it to the border. However, only two weeks later, the first of thousands of migrants arrivedat the Mexican border with California.
Mexican officials now say almost 9,000 migrants have arrived. Mexico’s Interior Department said over the weekend about 500 tried to rush the border, with U.S. authorities putting the number at 1,000, according to the Associated Press.
Here’s a look back at some of those critics’ best lines — but worst predictions:
1. Former President Obama: “Refugees 1,000 miles away.”
Former President Barack Obama campaigned in Miami five days before the midterm elections on November 2 where he slammed what he called a “political stunt” after Trump ordered active duty troops to the border.
“They’re telling you the existential threat to America is a bunch of poor refugees 1,000 miles away,” he said. “They’re even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt at the border. And the men and women of our military deserve better than that.”
In fact, the refugees began arriving in Tijuana much earlier than expected after catchingbus rides.
Barack Obama: "They're telling you the existential threat to America is a bunch of poor refugees 1,000 miles away."
"They're even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt at the border. The men and women of our military deserve better than that."
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) on November 2 on CNN dismissed the idea of the migrant caravan showing up to the U.S. border, also arguing it was about “1,000 miles away” and that if it did show up, it would be a “very small group of people.”
“This caravan is about 1,000 miles away. And there’s been caravans over the years and they always get disbanded. Imagine walking across Mexico. It is incredibly difficult. By the time anyone reaches our borders, if they reach it at all, it is a very small group of people. Most of them are turned away,” he said.
As mentioned above, Mexican officials told the AP there are now almost 9,000 migrants in Baja California, which borders California.
3. Sen. Cory Booker: Trump wants to make the caravan “the issue.”
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on November 6 on CNN accused Trump of trying to make the caravan “the issue” ahead of the midterm elections and questioned whether Americans really cared about “people in a caravan” who were “700 miles away, 800 miles away”:
The way he’s going about this, Chris, and you know, as if our country isn’t strong enough to deal with a lot of the — 700 miles away, 800 miles away — people in a caravan. If he wants to make that the issue, when people in my state of New Jersey are worried about their health care, people in my state of New Jersey are worried about their retirement security … when I run around this country … as much as the president wants to try to whip up fear and hate, sort of the tired tropes that he’s wielding out there, Americans are concerned about the sort of bread and butter issues.
However, a recent poll out of New Jersey’s Monmouth University showed that the majority of Americans do consider the migrant caravan a threat. The poll, published on November 19, showed that 53 percent of Americans saw the migrant caravan as a threat, compared to 39 percent who did not see the caravan as a threat.
4. Shepard Smith: The migrants “are more than two months away”
DEEP STATE EXPOSED: Mueller Is Being Criminally Investigated And Jerome Corsi Knew About The Case
Writer Jerome Corsi, who rejected Mueller’s plea deal in the Russia collusion case but is still under Mueller’s microscope, actually knew about the case in question years ago, before the criminal investigation opened in Tennessee. Mueller as FBI director was accused of working with a blogger who wears a hammer and sickle Communist hat to build the law enforcement presence that led to the man’s arrest on gun charges.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirms on official letterhead that a criminal complaint regarding Mueller’s conduct as FBI director is stored in an investigative case file at the Bureau. The Department’s policy is not to release this information in the course of an investigation.
Big League Politics has reviewed police audio of a conversation between Walter Fitzpatrick, witness in the case against Mueller, and TBI special agents Jerry Spoon and Mark Irwin, plus another TBI officer.
Fitzpatrick describes his claim that Darren Huff was fraudulently prosecuted by Mueller’s FBI for the crime of “carrying a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to use it in a civil disorder” in a supposed right-wing plot in 2010 to take over a courthouse in Monroe County. Huff served time in solitary confinement, and did not wish to be quoted in this report.
Fitzpatrick and others have presented evidence that Darren Huff never possessed a firearm at the location or in the matter alleged by authorities, and that there was no plot to take over a courthouse.
Huff’s lack of firearm, if confirmed by investigators, shapes the case against Mueller for willful misconduct by law enforcement.
Now here is proof that Corsi knew about the case, because he received an email in 2011 when he wrote a World Net Daily article (READ IT HERE) exposing Bill Bryan aka “PJ Foggy” of the Fogbow blog, a man who has been photographed wearing a hammer and sickle hat who writes a blog that was involved in the case that led to...
Report: Trump Considering Michigan Senate Candidate John James To Replace Nikki Haley As UN Ambassador
But that decision had some strategy behind it. This one might too.
President Donald Trump is considering John James, a Michigan businessman who lost election to the U.S. Senate this year, to replace UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, according to two people familiar with the matter.
James tried to unseat Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, in a state that helped Trump win the presidency in 2016. He lost to the incumbent senator 46 to 52 percent. He’s now among the people Trump is considering to replace Haley, the former South Carolina governor who said in October she would resign by the end of the year, the people said…
James was at the White House last week talking about an administration post with Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence, two people said.
The strategy behind Haley’s appointment was shrewd and Machiavellian. Trump and/or his advisors, especially nationalist ideologues like Steve Bannon, probably recognized that Haley would be a thorn in their side outside the administration. She’s a conservative, not a nationalist, and as a governor she would have been freer to criticize Trump than any of his conservative opponents in the Senate. (She was term-limited too, giving her even less reason to hold back.) She could have ended up rallying opposition to his policies among the conservative wing of the party, or what’s left of it. By bringing her into the administration, Trump avoided all that. With Haley on the team, the most prominent Republican in the country who’s hostile to him is probably, ahem, John Kasich, who isn’t rallying anyone on the right.
James’s appointment would be strategic in a different way. Like Haley, he has no diplomatic experience (although he did serve in Iraq). He’s never even held office, but performed impressively well in Michigan a few weeks ago against Debbie Stabenow. So why choose him? For two reasons, I think. One: James would owe Trump more than Haley would, since she had her own fan base within the party, so he’d be a more faithful messenger for the White House at the UN. Lots of stories have been written over the past two years about Haley articulating a traditional neoconservative anti-Russian foreign policy at the United Nations that often barely resembles her boss’s views. With James, Trump would worry less about his ambassador going...
Watch: Secret Service Scolds Tom Arnold Like a Schoolboy After Trump Death Threats
Even more unfortunate is the fact that such threats of death and violence against the president — even when made in jest — must be checked out by the U.S. Secret Service to determine if the threats are serious or not, a rather tedious and time-consuming process that nevertheless must take place.
Comedic actor Tom Arnold recently received just such a visit from a pair of Secret Service agents after he had posted a couple of tweets on Oct. 19 that challenged Trump to a physical fight — one that would have a rather bloody conclusion — that some people perceived as a direct threat of violence against the president.
Following a rally in Montana during which Trump had jokingly referenced a 2017 incident in which Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte body-slammed a mouthy liberal reporter, Arnold angrily tweeted, “I say put up or shut up @realDonaldTrump Me vs You. For America. First body slam wins. Any Rally. Any Time. Between now and the midterms.”
That tweet was soon followed by another, since-deleted tweet which referenced leftist comedian Kathy Griffin’s Trump beheading photo-shoot and said, “Next time Kathy won’t be holding his fake head!” As it turned out, those tweets earned a visit from a pair of Secret Service agents to Arnold’s home on Oct. 25 for a meeting that was recorded on Arnold’s home security cameras. Leftist media outlet Mother Jones obtained that nearly hour-long video and have since posted small portions of it online.
It is worth noting that despite all of Arnold’s bravado and tough-guy persona — at least with regard to Trump — the actor was exceptionally courteous and respectful to...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #453
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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