{"id":39571,"date":"2018-10-29T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39571"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:55:06","slug":"trumps-asinine-threat-to-send-5000-troops-to-the-border-is-savagely-ridiculed-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39571","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Asinine Threat to Send 5,000 Troops to the Border is Savagely Ridiculed on Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news of a so-called <em>&#8220;caravan&#8221;<\/em> of Central American migrants marching north toward the United States is tailor made for a Fox News freakout. Which is why Fox News has been freaking out about it for the past couple of weeks. They actually created the story for the express purpose of advancing the prospects of Trump&#8217;s Republican Nationalist Party in the upcoming midterm election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-child-immigrant.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Immigrant, Child\" width=\"550\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38388\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2400019543346160\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump himself has latched onto the issue in the most nauseating fashion as he falsely maligns these refugees as criminals and gang members. His latest tweet on the subject was a festival of lies and xenophobic hate:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1056919064906469376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Trump has zero evidence to support his vicious claims. And he&#8217;s ignoring the fact that these peaceful travelers do intend to enter the U.S. legally. Presenting yourself to immigration officials at the border is precisely the legal process for people applying for refugee status. But Trump is determined to slander folks who are already frightened and desperate. What&#8217;s more, he has adopted of the language of the murderer who just killed eleven worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue. That&#8217;s a real criminal who cited the caravan in hostile messages just before his rampage, and referred to the migrants as <em>&#8220;invaders.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s request that the migrants <em>&#8220;go back&#8221;<\/em> is a peculiar outburst at people he seems to believe are on the road with smart phones reading his tweets. Does he think that they will just turn around and return to homes they reluctantly abandoned because their lives were at risk? But what&#8217;s worse is his threat regarding the waiting military. Trump is literally threatening to slaughter these refugees for seeking safety in the land of the free.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile at Fox News, the one anchor that occasionally exhibits some measure of sanity, Shepard Smith, took note of Trump&#8217;s latest mental breakdown (video below). And Smith was brutal in his assessment of the absurdity in Trump&#8217;s plans. Smith said that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The U.S. will deploy some 5,000 troops to the U.S. border as early as tomorrow as thousands of migrants make their way north from Mexico. Tomorrow. The migrants, according to Fox News reporting, are more than two months away, if any of them actually come here. But tomorrow is one week before the midterm election, which is what all of this is about. There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There&#8217;s nothing at all to worry about.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Smith not only pointed out the fallacy in Trump&#8217;s deranged policy, but he also identified the real reason that this issue is being discussed. The refugees are a thousand miles from the U.S. and are traveling by foot. They don&#8217;t represent any sort of threat whatsoever, and least of all, an imminent one that requires immediate deployment of troops. The only imminent threat is to the Republican Nationalist Party&#8217;s grip on political power. And that&#8217;s the only reason why Trump is demagoguing this issue and turning refugees into criminal hordes of subhuman invaders. And it&#8217;s just the sort of preposterous hate mongering that Trump&#8217;s Deplorable cult followers will suck up with relish.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice work Shep:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/passantino\/status\/1057013271859994624<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news of a so-called &#8220;caravan&#8221; of Central American migrants marching north toward the United States is tailor made for a Fox News freakout. Which is why Fox News has been freaking out about it for the past couple of weeks. They actually created the story for the express purpose of advancing the prospects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[554,33,1013,320],"class_list":["post-39571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-immigration","tag-shepard-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-child-immigrant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aif","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39844,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39844","url_meta":{"origin":39571,"position":0},"title":"State TV (aka Fox News) Literally Scripts and Rehearses Interviews with Trump Associates","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/27\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, okay. 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