Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. Instead, he spent most of the week falsely claiming that migrants are eating pets in a small town in Ohio and defending his embrace of a far-right agitator whose presence is causing concern among his allies.
Trump’s repeated parroting of unfounded social media rumors about Haitian migrants in Ohio eating pets stole headlines during a trip West, including stops in Arizona and Nevada, late this week. The promotion of the claims overshadowed a series of speeches aimed at the economy and blaming Harris for border security failures.
Well, you can see why though. Which is more fun, the economy or personalities? Exactly.
Trump, in a news conference in California on Friday, promised “large deportations” from Springfield, Ohio — the town that has become a political flashpoint as Republicans, including Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, spread false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets.
The city of Springfield notes on its website that approximately 12,000 to 15,000 immigrants live in Clark County, and that Haitian immigrants are there legally as part of a parole program that allows citizens and lawful residents to apply to have their family members from Haiti come to the United States.
With or without pets.
He also pointed to a Venezuelan gang in Aurora, Colorado. Continuing to use dehumanizing language to describe undocumented immigrants, Trump said “nests of bad people” are being emptied into the United States. “It’s like an invasion from within and we’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country. And we’re going to start with Springfield and Aurora.”
“The people of Ohio are scared,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. It’s going to get so bad. You know what we’re experiencing now is they’re just getting settled in.”
Trump reiterated the same themes later Friday at a rally in Las Vegas. “We are under invasion just like it was an army, except in many ways it’s more difficult because they don’t wear a uniform, you don’t know who the hell to go after,” he said.
To go after. He’s such a lovely lovely man.
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Meanwhile, in Chicago:
Well, at least they’re not being eaten by immigrants
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-tower-chicago-environmental-ruling-b2612006.html
Wo. That is horrible.
Sounds like a wannabe dictator to me.
Trump’s belief that he can and should be able to micromanage these kinds of proceedings shows the kind of presidency he wants, and the kind of presidency he thinks he’s stepping into. In his mind, he believes he is already allowed to do this. In his mind, his word is Law. In his mind, he’s already skipped over any kind of due process, to herding all those evil immigrants onto planes or ships. Separation of powers, federal vs. state jurisdiction, and legality itself are all so much annoying red tape to be cut through and swept aside, if they get in the way of what Trump wants. There are millions of Americans cheering him on, eager to let him do just that.