President Donald Trump shrugged off disturbing reports of border patrol guards lobbing tear gas at immigrants over the border, claiming without evidence that the deterrent is “very safe” and that the adults with kids are just pretending to be their parents.
“The tear gas is a very minor form of the tear gas itself. It’s very safe,” he said during a roundtable in Mississippi on Monday. “The ones that were suffering to a certain extent were the people that were putting it out there. But it’s very safe.”
“But you really say, why is a parent running up into an area where they know the tear gas is forming…and they’re running up with a child. In some cases they’re not the parents,” he continued. “These are people. They call them grabbers. They grab a child because they think they’re going to have a certain status by having a child. You have certain advantages in terms of our crazy laws that, frankly, Congress should be changing.”
When reporters pushed back on the claim, asking for evidence that the adults are “grabbers,” Trump was unable to offer any.
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63,000,000 Americans happily and enthusiastically voted for a reprobate sociopath and racist, devoid of empathy, intelligence or a sense of humanity. All qualities manifestly apparent and not up for debate before the election.
That is more troubling than the fact Trump sits in the Oval Office
This guy is one sick cookie. We all know how safe tear gas is and I recommend that you have a good dose of it so you can give a first hand report on how safe it is.
If ignorance is bliss meet the happiest man on earth.
Had cadet Bone Spurs served in the military he’d know first hand tear gas is nasty stuff. There’s also different strengths- which is Border Patrol using?
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As a man who’s pretty grabby himself, tRump knows whereof he speaks.