Trump blamed the media for reporting on the way that immigrants are being treated at his migrant detention centers.
Trump blames the media for reporting on his treatment of migrants in detention centers
Trump tweeted:
The Fake News Media, in particular the Failing @nytimes, is writing phony and exaggerated accounts of the Border Detention Centers. First of all, people should not be entering our Country illegally, only for us to then have to care for them. We should be allowed to focus on …..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
….United States Citizens first. Border Patrol, and others in Law Enforcement, have been doing a great job. We said there was a Crisis – the Fake News & the Dems said it was “manufactured.” Now all agree we were right, but they always knew that. They are crowded (which we…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
….brought up, not them) because the Dems won’t change the Loopholes and Asylum. Big Media Con Job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
Trump was upset by a report in The New York Times on the disease and squalor inside the Clint, Texas detention facility, “Outbreaks of scabies, shingles and chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children who were being held in cramped cells, agents said. The stench of the children’s dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents’ own clothing — people in town would scrunch their noses when they left work. The children cried constantly. One girl seemed likely enough to try to kill herself that the agents made her sleep on a cot in front of them, so they could watch her as they were processing new arrivals.”
According to The Times, Border Patrol Agents have been warning the federal government that the facility was overcrowded, but the Trump administration has done nothing.
Trump is trying to justify the abuse of children.
His deranged rant at the media was all brought about because his cruelty to children is being exposed for the entire world to see.
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