Kellyanne Conway had no answer when she was challenged on CNN about Trump’s statements expressing no concern for the deaths of immigrant children.
Transcript via CNN’s State Of The Union:
BASH: But the idea that the president’s aides — now you’re one of them — have said that they have empathy for the deaths of children who are coming across the border with their parents…
CONWAY: Absolutely.
BASH: But the president hasn’t.
The only thing he has said is something that is very political and, frankly, misleading, with regard to Democrats being culpable for the deaths of children.
CONWAY: Dana, the president would like the Democrats to be in 2019 who they have been in 2006 with the Secure Fences Act.
Earlier this summer, in fact, a number — dozens of Democrats voted for DHS funding. In a certain committee, 10 Democrats voted to approve enhanced border security funding. Where are they now?
And what — the point he’s making is that our DHS and CBP, Customs and Border Patrol, statistics show that, unlike in the past, where the vast, vast majority of those coming over the border illegally were single males and were coming from Mexico, they’re coming from the Northern Triangle countries now, and they’re coming as families, or they’re coming as unaccompanied minors, as you know, unaccompanied children.
We simply cannot absorb all that. And, unfortunately and very tragically, it does results in some deaths.
BASH: When…
CONWAY: Now, in Felipe’s case, his father and he came into El Paso, I’m told, one of the busiest ports of entry. They were being held while their claims were being processed. He took ill. He was taken to the hospital twice. And, unfortunately, he’s now deceased.
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In the case of Jakelin, they were very, very far from a — from a port of entry; 163 people needed to be put on a bus that…
(CROSSTALK)
CONWAY: This is important — that accommodate 50.
I went and got — I went and got a briefing because I’m concerned about this.
BASH: And that’s — and that’s important.
It’s also important to note that the president tweeted, not just the Democrats are responsible, but that they’re — that they were ill before they were coming over.
And his own government, the CBP says — has said in several statements that they have tracked them, and that that’s not the case.
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Conway was told Trump has made no statements of compassion for the kids who died due to his immigration policy and her only response was that Democrats need to give Trump what he wants on border security. Kellyanne Conway is supposed to be Trump’s media spinner, but her performances are getting worse and less effective.
As Trump gets more extreme in his positions and actions, Kellyanne Conway is increasingly looking powerless to defend what Trump is saying and doing.
The press has caught on to Conway’s hurricane of distraction tactics. It isn’t working, as what has become apparent is that even Trump’s media mouthpiece can’t sell this president to the American people.
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