Yeah, Democrats are none too bright. BUT, they do try to make up for their total lack of intelligence by throwing every bit of their shared psychosis into infantile temper tantrums.
Trump Trolls Democrats After They Post Problematic Pic Of "Kids in Cages"
http://www.dailywire.com/news/49379/trump-trolls-democrats-after-they-post-problematic-james-barrett
By James Barrett
The Daily Wire
July 11, 2019
This week, the Democrat House Oversight and Reform Committee tweeted out an announcement of a hearing on "Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment on the Border" which included a photograph showing rows of immigrant children lying under tinfoil blankets inside fenced detainment cells.
"Last week, members of our committee visited a detention center at the southern border and discovered grotesque treatment of children," the Oversight committee tweeted. "This week, we are examining the inhumane treatment of the children in these detention centers." The "Kids in Cages" hearing, the committee announced, would be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. The background of the tweet featured the photograph from an immigrant detention center. The initial announcement of the hearing last week contained a similar background photograph.
The Washington Examiner published a screenshot of the tweet:
But, as the Examiner reports, the tweets were scrubbed after the Republican House Oversight and Reform Committee forced their Democratic counterparts to finally look at the date of the photograph: 2014, the middle of Barack Obama's second term.
"You all know that's a picture from 2014, right? Remind us who was President then," the Republicans tweeted. They followed that up with an Associated Press fact-check: "The photos, taken by The Associated Press, were from 2014, during the Obama administration, but were presented by liberal activists as if they showed the effects of Trump's immigration policy now," AP reported in May 2018.
"The photos, taken by The Associated Press, were from 2014, during the Obama administration, but were presented by liberal activists as if they showed the effects of Trump's immigration policy now." https://t.co/9x3F7VYUTz
- Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) July 9, 2019
The "very embarrassing" goof gave Trump a chance to highlight that the immigration crisis started long before he came into office and the Democrats' cries of the "inhumane treatment" of kids reek of hypocrisy.
"Democrats had to quickly take down a tweet called 'Kids In Cages, Inhumane Treatment at the Border,' because the horrible picture used was from the Obama years. Very embarrassing!" Trump tweeted Thursday morning, citing Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends."
Democrats had to quickly take down a tweet called "Kids In Cages, Inhumane Treatment at the Border," because the horrible picture used was from the Obama years. Very embarrassing! @foxandfriends
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019
The Examiner notes that Trump's campaign has also called out the mistake: "House Democrats are promoting their 'civil rights' hearing on 'kids in cages' and 'inhumane treatment' with a photo from 2014, when Joe Biden was Vice President. So dishonest!" the campaign tweeted. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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