Another xenophobic Trump stunt
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
October 30 at 11:31 AM
In another stunt designed to whip up his xenophobic base, President Trump threatened in an interview with Axios to repeal birthright citizenship, enshrined in the 14th Amendment (“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”) to the Constitution, falsely stating that we are the only country to have birthright citizenship ...
... in the closing days of the midterm campaign, he is desperate to stir up his base — just as he has been doing in hyping the caravan, which remains hundreds of miles from our border.
... one expects Fox News to exaggerate and outright misrepresent the situation (e.g. suggesting the migrants carry diseases, have been infiltrated by Middle Easterners, financed by Jewish billionaire George Soros), but the mainstream media is not blameless in helping Trump perpetrate his phony crisis. In an unusual move, the progressive Center for American Progress put out a memo chiding media outlets ...
... coverage has too often simply repeated the Trump-Fox hype rather than explain what is going on: Trump is creating a fake emergency, wasting taxpayer dollars now in deploying troops and serving it up as red meat to his base ...
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