New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started the hyperbole train when she said undocumented immigrants were being held in concentration camps.
But there was no way that the rhetoric was going to end with only that ridiculous comment being said by liberals.
On Sunday NBC News anchor Chuck Todd accused President Donald Trump and the United States of holding kids hostage.
“We are doing a fantastic job under the circumstances,” the president said in an interview with “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“The Democrats aren’t even approving giving us money. Where is the money? You know what? The Democrats are holding up the humanitarian aid,” he said.
That is when Todd took the opportunity to start playing the violin and tugging at the heartstrings with his questions.
“I want to ask what’s going down with these children in these migrant camps. The stories are horrible, Mr. President,” he said.
“You have children without their parents. You have kids taking care of kids,” he said. “Why aren’t you doing something?”
The president then hit Todd with some truth bombs that he could not avoid, but he did his best to ignore the facts in favor of his narrative.
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“And President Obama built the cages. Remember when they said that I built them?” the president said. “It was 2014.”
“What’s happened, though, are the cartels and all of these bad people, they’re using the kids. They’re, they’re, it’s almost like slavery,” he said.
Todd said that he believed the kids were being used as pawns in a game of politics and that “They could be impacted for years.”
“It looks like these kids are being used as, as some sort of — is it hostages? They’re being held hostage,” Todd said.
“If the Democrats would change the asylum laws and the loopholes, which they refuse to do because they think it’s good politics, everything would be solved immediately. But they refuse to do it. They refuse to do it, President Trump said.
“You know what? If they change those, I say, I used to say 45 minutes. It’s 15 minutes. If they changed asylum and if they changed loopholes, everything on the border would be perfect,” he said.
It is ridiculous to say that the president is holding children hostage, but it is par for the course for NBC News and the Democrats.
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