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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:36 AM Jul 2019

Trump: I want reporters to go see migrant detention centers

Source: The Hill

BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 07/08/19 08:21 AM EDT

President Trump on Sunday said that he wants reporters to visit migrant detention facilities at the Southern Border.

Asked if he would visit the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility in Clint, Texas, which has been the subject of a number of reports, Trump said, "What we're going to do is I'm going to start showing some of these detention centers ... to the press," according to CNN.

"I want the press to go in and see them," Trump added. "We're going to send people in. We're going to have some of the press go in."

Trump also tweeted Sunday that media was reporting "phony and exaggerated accounts" of poor conditions at border detention centers.



Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451936-trump-i-want-reporters-to-go-see-migrant-detention-centers

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Trump: I want reporters to go see migrant detention centers (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2019 OP
So you'll clean up certain small areas and let the press see those and only those ... we know how mr_lebowski Jul 2019 #1
I want the press to see the camps I want them to see. CincyDem Jul 2019 #2
Theresienstadt Ghetto atreides1 Jul 2019 #3
Exactly! mcar Jul 2019 #11
+1 dalton99a Jul 2019 #14
Look over here. Epstein? who is Epstein? I bet our naked first lady knows. Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #4
He'd prefer the media talk about caged brown children SallyHemmings Jul 2019 #5
When bucolic_frolic Jul 2019 #6
with trump, talk is always cheap...besides US congresspeople can't even get inside the detention beachbum bob Jul 2019 #7
He'll send Lou Dobbs, ... phatkatt Jul 2019 #8
Potemkin villages. Itchinjim Jul 2019 #9
unannounced and unescorted rurallib Jul 2019 #10
Welcome to Theresienstadt! no_hypocrisy Jul 2019 #12
Which press? Real, actual journalists or his Fox News / OANN ass kissers? Initech Jul 2019 #13
The same centers that refuse to let members of Congress in? Retrograde Jul 2019 #15
Notice please that while he wants the press to go into the camps he does not mention them returning. Ford_Prefect Jul 2019 #16
"We want the press to check in, but they won't check out!" Grokenstein Jul 2019 #19
That's nice, Don jmowreader Jul 2019 #17
There are enough reporters for all the detention centers and to cover Epstein IronLionZion Jul 2019 #18
Is he alleging the photos were p hi only as well? Tiggeroshii Jul 2019 #20
Then let them in with cameras immediately to any location they want. Flaleftist Jul 2019 #21
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. So you'll clean up certain small areas and let the press see those and only those ... we know how
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:42 AM
Jul 2019

you operate, Slick. We weren't born yesterday, sadly for you.

Of course, the media was ...

CincyDem

(6,363 posts)
2. I want the press to see the camps I want them to see.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:43 AM
Jul 2019

Enough with this random chit of just showing up somewhere. We have sets to build, costumes to sew, props to bring in. Someone will have to call central casting to get some strong healthy looking folk who can hit their marks and smile on que. and the catering...we’ll have to get caterers in.

Ya can’t just “show up” and expect to see the right show.


Farmer-Rick

(10,192 posts)
4. Look over here. Epstein? who is Epstein? I bet our naked first lady knows.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:44 AM
Jul 2019

Now why would you marry your Slovenian sex worker? Unless she knew too much.

bucolic_frolic

(43,196 posts)
6. When
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:46 AM
Jul 2019

the International Red Cross has full access to all facilities, I'll believe it. This offer is just another Trump charade.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
7. with trump, talk is always cheap...besides US congresspeople can't even get inside the detention
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:56 AM
Jul 2019

centers

and no guarantee what is being shown is actually "real" and not staged. All detention centers should be open to the media

phatkatt

(1,376 posts)
8. He'll send Lou Dobbs, ...
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:04 AM
Jul 2019

...Hannity, and and other such "journalists" to tell the world that the camps are like summer spas!!!

no_hypocrisy

(46,130 posts)
12. Welcome to Theresienstadt!
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:40 AM
Jul 2019

The Embellishment

On October 5, 1943, the first Danish Jews were transported into Theresienstadt. Soon after their arrival, the Danish Red Cross and the Swedish Red Cross began inquiring about their whereabouts and their condition. The Nazis decided to let them visit one location that would prove to the Danes and to the world that Jews were living under humane conditions. But how could they change an overcrowded, pest infected, ill-nourished, and high mortality-rate camp into a spectacle for the world? In December 1943, the Nazis told the Council of Elders of Theresienstadt about the Embellishment. The commander of Theresienstadt, SS Colonel Karl Rahm, took control of planning. An exact route was planned for the visitors to take. All buildings and grounds along this route were to be enhanced by green turf, flowers, and benches. A playground, sports fields, and even a monument were added. Prominent and Dutch Jews had their billets enlarged, as well as had furniture, drapes, and flower boxes added. But even with the physical transformation of the Ghetto, Rahm thought that the Ghetto was too crowded. On May 12, 1944, Rahm ordered the deportation of 7,500 inhabitants. In this transport, the Nazis decided that all orphans and most of the sick should be included to help the facade that the Embellishment was creating. The Nazis, so clever at creating facades, didn't miss a detail. They erected a sign over a building that read "Boys' School" as well as another sign that read "closed during holidays." Needless to say, no one ever attended the school. On the day that the commission arrived, June 23, 1944, the Nazis were fully prepared. As the tour commenced, well-rehearsed actions took place that were created specially for the visit. Bakers baking bread, a load of fresh vegetables being delivered, and workers singing were all queued by messengers who ran ahead of the entourage. After the visit, the Nazis were so impressed with their propaganda feat that they decided to make a film. The propaganda documentary, “The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews,” was shot in September 1944, directed by Kurt Gerron, a Jewish prisoner who had been a film professional. He and others in the film were sent to Auschwitz afterward and murdered.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/theresienstadt-the-ldquo-model-rdquo-ghetto


Retrograde

(10,137 posts)
15. The same centers that refuse to let members of Congress in?
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 12:38 PM
Jul 2019

Or a specially cleaned-up for the occasion Potemkin center?

Ford_Prefect

(7,901 posts)
16. Notice please that while he wants the press to go into the camps he does not mention them returning.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 12:43 PM
Jul 2019

Ever the sly speaker is number 45.

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
17. That's nice, Don
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 12:44 PM
Jul 2019

But those camps aren’t the leading atrocity of the day. Your relationship with a guy who’s been pimping out children is.

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