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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:36 PM Jun 2019

Trump's Solution for Migrant Kid Horrors: Blame Obama

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: DAILYBEAST




HORROR SHOW


Far from moving to ameliorate the treatment of small children that has become a national story, the president is telling senior aides to stick to blaming Democrats and Obama.

Updated 06.26.19 10:18AM ET / Published 06.26.19 5:06AM ET


As news broke on the reportedly horrific conditions at a Texas detention center holding migrant children, President Trump did what he normally does in times of crisis and public-relations hellscapes: He monitored the media and political reactions via his White House TV and the DVR device he dubs his “super TiVo.”

And in the days since the treatment of small children at this detention facility became major national news, the president wanted to make one thing clear to his subordinates, though his focus was not at all about ameliorating appalling conditions. Trump has repeatedly told advisers and senior aides that, no matter how great the public outrage toward his administration, his lieutenants were to stick to a simple strategy of blaming Democrats and Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, according to two people with knowledge of the exchanges.


In the end for Trump, the dire situation was a mere messaging problem.

The strategy was a practical Xerox of the president’s approach to other immigration scandals of the Trump era, such as the brutal, widely condemned family-separation policy. When the president and his team don’t want to own the negative coverage and political backlash to the treatment of migrants, asylum-seekers, or undocumented immigrants—but also want to continue draconian policies nonetheless—they frequently revert to trashing the Democrats as the real culprits.

“Well, they’re better than, much better than Obama… The conditions are much better than they were under President Obama,” Trump alleged during an interview with The Hill on Monday, when asked about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s characterization that he was presiding over an American “concentration camp.” .............................

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-sees-dire-migrant-detention-conditions-as-messaging-problem?ref=wrap



It really is Trumps default response--Blame Obama-or Hillary-or the Dems--or all 3 at once.

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Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
1. Assuming what he says is true (it is not), if he takes credit for Obama's economy
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:39 PM
Jun 2019

Then he can take credit for Obama's immigration issues too.

kacekwl

(6,994 posts)
2. I know that former presidents are not to criticize other presidents but
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:42 PM
Jun 2019

I think President Obama is wrong to let this child get away with this shit. If not him then someone from his administration should set the record straight. These are not normal times.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,485 posts)
3. I said that very thing earlier this morning......
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:43 PM
Jun 2019

[link:http:// https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12220913|

Of course he blames Obama. He is caught with his hands in the cookie jar and it someone else's fault for taking the cookies.

AllaN01Bear

(17,383 posts)
4. blame the employers for cheep slave wages and stuff that we americans dont want to do.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:46 PM
Jun 2019

look at his hotels and golf courses .

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
5. You'd think this excuse would eventually wear thin, even with his deplorables.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:50 PM
Jun 2019

But maybe not.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
6. "The TALIBAN gave me toothpaste and soap."
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:59 PM
Jun 2019
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/06/26/trump-administration-completely-owned-by-a-former-captive-of-pirates/

Journalist David Rohde, responding to the Justice Department's Sarah Fabian's suggestion that children don't 'need' beds, soap or toothpaste, pointed out that his Taliban captors provided same for him.

Likewise, Michael Scott Moore--who was held by Somali pirates for over two years--suggested that they treated him better than the Trump maladministration treats children.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
10. Worthy point. American Taliban in Gilead-utopia under tRump. Cruelty & fear is the point. . nt
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 03:35 PM
Jun 2019
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. Ponzi Don is just
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:26 PM
Jun 2019

parroting what he heard on a Fox talk show. Yesterday the DHS head spewed this shit right and left for better than a half hour on Bloomberg. Understand he was at Fox Business News a few minutes earlier spewing the same shit.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. republicans have no integrity, no honor
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:32 PM
Jun 2019

What a sorryass moral cesspool the republican party has become. Party of moral degenerates.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
11. Yeah, if children were tortured under Obama, RepubliCONs would have screamed. . . . nt
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 03:37 PM
Jun 2019

area51

(11,868 posts)
9. Crybaby Donnie
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 03:04 PM
Jun 2019

never takes responsibility for anything.

Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
12. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 04:19 PM
Jun 2019

Analysis. Please repost in GD.

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