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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:34 PM Oct 2018

Pence: Honduran refugees aren't Mexican, so they must be Middle Eastern

By Oliver Willis - October 23, 201818 Comments23100

Pence spun a deranged theory that a group of refugees are secret terrorists who are from 'other than Mexico — that means from the Middle East region.'

Mike Pence is amplifying Trump’s racist attack on a group of Honduran refugees, who are traveling north in a large group to keep each other safe on their long journey to seek asylum in the United States.

Trump is telling blatant, racist lies about these desperate people. He made the baseless claim that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the migrant group, and called the “caravan” a national security threat.

Even Fox News has admitted that there is “no evidence” to support Trump’s claim, which some conservative commentators and anchors on the network have repeated.

And while it doesn’t seem possible, Pence actually made Trump’s crazy, racist conspiracy theory even crazier and more racist — by insisting that “statistics” prove there must be some Middle Eastern terrorists hiding amid the Honduran refugees, and that it’s “inconceivable” for Trump to be wrong about this.

Shockingly, Pence also claimed that the Trump administration routinely describes Middle Easterners as being from somewhere “other than Mexico.”

https://shareblue.com/mike-pence-trump-racist-attack-honduran-refugee-caravan-middle-eastern/

And then there is this crypto -fascist book of Revelations asshole ....................that is just as much as a fucking traitor as the orange asshole..........................

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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
1. Maybe Pence is just gearing up to take over for the Rump next month
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:38 PM
Oct 2018

He must maintain continuity of the narrative if he wants to keep the deplorables satisfied.

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
4. I am really hoping that Mueller tells the public what this fascist did during the transition and
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:41 PM
Oct 2018

before................he is eyeballs deep in the proverbial crap.................and he goes around calling himself his brothers keeper.............................of racist........................

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
6. So, rapists and criminals come from Mexico and Middle Easterners come from everywhere else?
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:43 PM
Oct 2018

And by Middle Easterners they mean terrorists.

Does he care to share with the rest of us those “statistics”?

denverbill

(11,489 posts)
9. I bet Khashoggi's killers are in the bunch. Maybe Nicole Simpson's killers as well.
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:58 PM
Oct 2018

We have to arrest Khashoggi's killers because they were incompetent. I'm sure the Prince wants them back so he can punish their incompetence. Maybe while we are ferreting out the Khashoggi killers from the mob of criminals headed towards the border, we can talk to some of the MS-13 gang who will surely be in the crowd. I'm sure they are far more competent murderers than the Khashoggi bunch and Lord knows the Prince needs some competent people to carry out his murders. He's already got about 18 people he's going to need killed real soon before they are dragged into court.

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world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
11. After seeing some of the RWNJ responses on Freep, Trump and Pence are going to have
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:03 PM
Oct 2018

innocent blood on their lily white hands.
This is an unnecessary American tragedy.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
12. I won't say that Trump is better than Pence.
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:19 PM
Oct 2018

But I will say that Pence would actually manage to somehow be even worse in some respects.

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