Trump echoes Fox & Friends to blame Democratic Sen. Schumer, diversity visa program for NYC terror attack
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/11/01/trump-echoes-fox-friends-blame-democratic-sen-schumer-diversity-visa-program-nyc-terror-attack/218412
8 hours 24 min ago ››› ZACHARY PLEAT
President Donald Trump echoed Fox & Friends after the show repeatedly blamed a diversity visa program and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for a terror attack in Manhattan October 31 in which a man driving a pickup truck killed eight people.
Police shot and arrested the attack suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, after his vehicle smashed into a school bus. WABC, the ABC affiliate in New York City, reported that “authorities say he came to the United States seven years ago from Uzbekistan under what is called the Diversity Visa Program, which offers a lottery for people from countries with few immigrants in America.” Right-wing websites hyped this detail in their posts on the attack, though The Washington Post said it was “unconfirmed.” The Post explained that the diversity visa program originated in part in a bill Schumer introduced in the House in 1990, which was signed into law by Republican President George H.W. Bush.
After the Fox & Friends co-hosts and former Trump White House aide Sebastian Gorka in two separate segments castigated the diversity visa program as a security risk and Brian Kilmeade called on Schumer to publicly repudiate it, Trump followed his well-worn path of making public statements based on what he sees on the Fox News morning show, repeatedly calling out Schumer by name:....................................
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