In just a matter of days, the Hostage Taker in Chief went from muttering “we don’t like to see families separated” in front of cameras to “Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness of grief,” but that’s what happens when he takes his daily briefings from state television:
What kind of “phony stories” is he trying to disown? Is it the weeping detained moms who told Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington state that they never had a chance to say goodbye to their kids? Border agents “told them that their ‘families would not exist anymore’ and that they would ‘never see their children again.’”
Perhaps it was the Virginia facility accused of shackling and beating naked migrant teens? “They handcuffed me and put a white bag of some kind over my head,” a 15-year-old boy said in a sworn statement. “They left me naked and attached to that chair for two and a half days, including at night.”
Is it some of the 2,000 separated kids who, according to the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), may never see their parents again? Former acting director John Sandweg: “If the administration doesn’t reunify these children very quickly, which is logistically very hard to do, you’re going to have a lot of permanent separations.”
Maybe the mother who had her infant ripped from her arms as she breastfed? Her attorney, Natalia Cornelio of the Texas Civil Rights Project, told CNN that her client was left so distraught that she had to be handcuffed.
“Phony stories of sadness of grief.” We all get how he works—he doesn’t like the stories he created due to his own actions, so he just gaslights the entire country and say they never happened. But they happened, and the images are seared into the minds of Americans. We won’t forget, and certainly not in November. We really do care. You don’t.