Opinion: Trump feeds his voters one of his most ridiculous scams yet
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 30 at 9:55 AM As we’ve seen, there’s no end to the ugly, corrupt, destructive and bigoted things that President Trump will do in part to please his base — from separating migrant families, to pardoning racist sheriff Joe Arpaio, to supporting a lawsuit that could destroy our health-care system.
In an interview on Fox News, Trump similarly claimed that “we’re releasing them into sanctuary cities almost exclusively,” but “they didn’t want them.” Trump insisted this proves that “the whole sanctuary city thing is a big scam.” If a policy that Trump is proudly boasting of were really happening, you’d think officials would be eager to talk it up. Yet they aren’t. What’s more, they aren’t in any rush to confirm that it isn’t happening, either, because that would contradict the boss.
Those changes would mean the administration would not have to release as many into the interior, pending their hearings. Trump claims this is a draw — they fraudulently apply for asylum, then disappear into the country. To pump this up as a dire crisis, Trump falsely inflates the rate at which they don’t appear, while regularly describing asylum seekers as criminal invaders.
This polling question is not a perfect match for Trump’s advertised migrant-dumping policy. But it suggests Trump supporters tend to take a dimmer view of asylum seekers.
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