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Way past time for this psychopathic liar to go.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)orangecrush
(19,633 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,534 posts)By Dylan Baddour on Sunday, October 19th, 2014 at 6:00 a.m.
The lieutenant governor of Texas has twice declared the discovery of "prayer rugs" on the Texas side of the border with Mexico, also suggesting members of the Islamic State group have possibly snuck in.
At the September 2014, Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., David Dewhurst described suspicions of an impending invasion of terrorists crossing the Rio Grande. As a sign, he said, "prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush," according to CSPAN2 video posted online by the liberal news site Talking Points Memo.
Of late, some Texas-Mexico border claims have lacked factual footing. In September 2014, PolitiFact rated Mostly False a claim the Islamic State group was operating in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. PolitiFact Texas subsequently rated Pants on Fire a California congressmans statement that at least 10 ISIS fighters had been caught by the U.S. Border Patrol.
https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/oct/19/david-dewhurst/david-dewhurst-says-prayer-rugs-found-texas-brush-/
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)that some are gullible enough to swallow this nonsense.
bdamomma
(63,928 posts)instilling Fear boy, Putin schooled him good or is it Stephen Miller.
this has to stop now.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)the grown ups?
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)orangecrush
(19,633 posts)this garbage being spewed by a U.S. president.
Your username is accurate!
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)A simple tactic that works on simple people.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)He is the demagogue the founders warned us about.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Because, uh, yeah, they do that.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)Which shows us the intelligence level of the base he is speaking to.
bdamomma
(63,928 posts)and desperate to change the narrative, he may invoke the Canada/US border next. He is that sick.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)orangecrush
(19,633 posts)by "persecuted christians".
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)which can fly over his wall.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,534 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)orangecrush
(19,633 posts)bdamomma
(63,928 posts)and distraction.
He needs to go he is ruining us and our democracy.
Putin must love what is happening to us right now.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,376 posts)bdamomma
(63,928 posts)ratings are going to tank if he is just totally in meltdown right now. Threatening Cohen's family too.
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)I think we've heard this one before, no?
NotAPuppet
(326 posts)unhinged and blatant racism.
Trumps constant Mooselambs are bad people BS needs to be called out daily by the media instead of being swept under the prayer rug.
Zoonart
(11,881 posts)If a man carries a scared object, a venerable component of his religious practice, like his prayer rug half way around the world... why would he leave it at the border?
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)anarch
(6,535 posts)I'd love to hear the opinions of all the ranchers that live along the border, as to how they feel about the government planning to just take their land (well I suppose they have to be compensated, but still....)
sinkingfeeling
(51,478 posts)Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)n/t
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)<snip>
"President Trump promoted a news article on Friday that featured an unnamed New Mexico rancher complaining about 'prayer rugs' found in the desert near places where illegal immigrants routinely cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The rancher vented to The Washington Examiner this week about 'Chinese, Germans, Russians, a lot of Middle Easterners, those Czechoslovakians they caught over on our neighbors just last summer.'
German nationals are covered by a U.S. government waiver agreement that allows them to legally enter the country for up to three months without visas.
Trump focused on the Middle Easterners, tweeting about the prayer rugs and adding: 'People coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.'
The Examiner published the story on Wednesday, based on the lone female rancher who was left unidentified aside from a photograph shot from behind."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6607237/Trump-spreads-claim-anonymous-rancher-says-Muslim-prayer-rugs-desert.html