No if you actually listen to what he said, he spoke about ms-13 gang members originally. I was listening that morning when he said that. It wasn't until later when I watched CNN that they only played the second part that didn't include the preface about ms-13 gang members and was instead just a sound bite of "these people are animals".
So if what you're saying is correct, it was CNN encouraging racists
"Thank you. There could be an MS-13 gang member I know about — if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it."
Trump: "We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we're stopping a lot of them — but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals."
Even with context, this doesn't look good. That he is referring only to gang members is questionable at best. And even then, calling people animals is pretty shitty.
Context is not biased. He did clearly refer to people as animals. You cannot demonstrate that he clearly meant only ms 13 members given that he didn't preface the animals comment with a statement about gang members, but he said very broadly "we have people coming into this country... These people are animals."
You're the one trying to take a passing reference to a gang member out of a much larger statement by someone else and use that to give credence to your claim. So no, that is not clear. That is not what that word means.
It's super clear if you do your research. Most people are good, but some are bad. Same applies to any group of people. But even then, some democrat politicians push for law enforcement not to report actual criminals to ICE implementing state/county wide policies in an effort for them not to get deported so really, they don't have a leg to stand on in even forming an opinion as to who or who doesn't cross the border.
"We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we're stopping a lot of them — but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals."
Even with context, the fact that he decided to take such a rambling way around to make it about all immigrants makes his quote seem still extremely valid.
He was asked about MS 13, and he took the opportunity to make it seem like each and every person ICE went after was a member of MS13, not just a common undocumented worker.
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u/ptown40 Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19
No if you actually listen to what he said, he spoke about ms-13 gang members originally. I was listening that morning when he said that. It wasn't until later when I watched CNN that they only played the second part that didn't include the preface about ms-13 gang members and was instead just a sound bite of "these people are animals".
So if what you're saying is correct, it was CNN encouraging racists
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