Trump keeps mentioning taped-up women at the border. Experts have no idea what he's talking about.

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Trump keeps mentioning taped-up women at the border. Experts have no idea what he’s talking about.

By Katie Mettler January 17 at 12:06 PM

President Trump has a new favorite anecdote, one that fixates on tape.

Specifically, in public remarks at the White House, at the border and at farming conventions, the president has been talking about tape on the mouths of migrant women. On at least eight occasions over a period of 12 days this month, the president has argued publicly for his proposed wall on the southern border by claiming without evidence that traffickers tie up and silence women with tape before illegally driving them through the desert from Mexico to the United States in the backs of cars and windowless vans.

In Trump’s telling, the adhesive is sometimes blue tape. Other times it is electrical tape or duct tape.

In some instances, the descriptions are more salacious and graphic. “Human trafficking — grabbing women, in particular — and children, but women — taping them up, wrapping tape around their mouths so they can’t shout or scream, tying up their hands behind their back and even their legs and putting them in a back seat of a car or a van — three, four, five, six, seven at a time,” the president said in the Cabinet Room on Jan. 11. (A timeline of the president’s taped-women remarks appears below.)

With an eerie specificity, Trump has characterized these acts as commonplace.

Yet human-trafficking experts and advocates for immigrant women have said they are perplexed by this increasingly repeated story in Trump’s repertoire — and are at a loss for where he got his information. It was not from them, they say; in fact, they have no idea what he is talking about.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/17/trumps-stories-taped-up-women-smuggled-into-us-are-divorced-reality-experts-say/

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I dunno. Projection? Fantasizing? They are rather strange remarks.

[2naSalit]

2. Is that where/what happened

to all those female immigrants that we never see in the news? Where are these women and girls? Are they taped up and gagged waiting to be sold for slavery somewhere that only he and his cohorts are aware of? He seems to tell on himself, much like ghouliani does.

[niyad]

3. oh dear goddess, is the sexual predator in chief detailing his latest fantasies?

[IronLionZion]

4. I bet he thinks about it all the time

so it must have felt real in his own imagination.

[Runningdawg]

5. This is what happens when you fall asleep watching porn

and wake up watching FOX news.

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[LakeSuperiorView]

13. We know he didn't read that.

[Fuzzpope]

6. Sounds to me like

Trump may know more about this kind of shit than he can easily explain.

Remember, he's always looking for a means to boast, assert himself, even if it's obscure comments that most don't cue in on. He can't help himself, it's a compulsive urge.

[pamdb]

7. taped up women

Probably a fantasy of his.

[BHDem53]

8. Maybe that's how he

brought melanie over.

[matt819]

9. Wow

Talk about projecting.

Is that what Putin's videos show?

Or Maybe trump is the one who's taped up.

Either way works for me.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

11. Can we tape his mouth shut, just to see what it looks like ?

[Harker]

12. Are there binders of taped up women? n/t