Trump's Prayer-Rug Paranoia
The president is tweeting again.
Three weeks into a government shutdown triggered when the president reneged on a deal to fund the government, insisting instead that any deal had to include money for a wall on the southern border, Donald Trump tweeted about a story from the Washington Examiner that cited an anonymous rancher who claimed that Muslim prayer rugs were found at the U.S. border. Although the president likely imagines that this strengthens the case for his border wall, its really just an example of how the president will say anything he thinks backs him up, regardless of whether its true.
Theres a lot of people coming in not just from Mexico
People, the general public, just dont get the terrorist threats of that, the story quotes the rancher as saying. Thats whats really scary. You dont know whats coming across. Weve found prayer rugs out here. Its unreal. Its not just Mexican nationals that are coming across.
That is the entirety of the evidence provided for the discovery of prayer rugs at the border. The Examiner provides no photographs, no press accounts, no confirmation from government documents or sourcesjust the word of a single anonymous rancher. The same rancher also warns that the Border Patrol has caught migrants of other nationalities, including Czechoslovakians. Czechoslovakia hasnt existed since George H. W. Bush was president. Its one thing to use anonymous sources; its another to print whatever they say without a cursory attempt at verification.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/trumps-prayer-rug-paranoia/580792/
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Harker
(14,030 posts)though that might be disturbing in its own way...
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Blue Owl
(50,478 posts)Because a religious fundamental whacko is gonna forget their prayer rug...
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)That would freak them all out....
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)The people who do this lying are just Russian hate agents....STUPID people who are tRUMP crazy bastards....They never get their facts correct because they ain't smart....