Trump puts kids in cages because he wants his wall. How low can he go? The authoritarian shitshow continues ...

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Steve Schmidt's Twitter profile:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.

This is why I wondered if Miller and Bannon are in touch. Bannon is networking Europe's ultra-right winers and fascists:

@DavidNakamura
Trump is finding common cause on immigration with the new wave of populist European leaders. Steve Bannon toured the continent and told us “there’s a lot to learn” from what’s happening there. w/⁦*@griffwitte*⁩

mobile.twitter.com/DavidNakamura/status/1009414486267219968

I'm livid that Theresa May doesn't have the balls to call off the visit. Jesus Christ. What do we stand for? Where do we draw the line?
Also for fucks sake, people in this country might actually start to respect her more if she stood up and did something. It's just so disappointing.

@ASankin
'Corey Lewandowski, who said "womp womp" on national TV today regarding a 10-year old immigrant girl with Down Syndrome being taken from her mother, works for a PAC that gets donations from a company that owns private immigration detention facilities.' (link: docquery.fec.gov/pdf/060/201805209112150060/201805209112150060.pdf#navpanes=0) docquery.fec.gov/pdf/060/201805…
mobile.twitter.com/ASankin/status/1009259214785482752
edition.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/corey-lewandowski-great-america-committee-midterms/index.html
www.geogroup.com

Oh yes, and that Great America is Pence's PAC.

This is the private prison operator that contributes to Pence's PAC:

'Immigrants can sue federal detention center in Colorado over forced labor, appeals court says
The immigrants seek more than $5 million in damages from the GEO Group'

www.denverpost.com/2018/02/09/geo-group-aurora-immigration-detention-center-lawsuit/

private immigration detention facilities

What? There's profit involved in detaining immigrants?

It's post-Reagan America, anything to turn a buck on, Lweji.

More Chelsea Clinton Retweeted Spectrum News NY1
Watch this. Children believed to have been taken from their parents at the border snuck into a building here in #NYC. After midnight. Thinking about what my mom said a lot these days: “There is no such thing as other people’s children.”

That's some change of tune. Maybe he lost his voice yesterday:

@RepHuizenga
I have spoken w Bethany Chr Services to get clarification on the status of separated children coming to Mich. We continue to communicate with them to stay up to date as the situation develops. This must change!

Kasie Hunt
@kasie
“Children who are being separated from their parents at the border are now being transported to Michigan for temporary...placement.

“Some of the children are infants as young as three months of age and are completely unable to advocate for themselves.”

(link: www.michigan.gov/mdcr/0,4613,7-138--471110--,00.html) michigan.gov/mdcr/0,4613,7-…

mobile.twitter.com/RepHuizenga/status/1009446153803501568

@kylegriffin1
'NYT confirms Forbes report that Wilbur Ross shorted stock in a shipping firm days after learning that reporters were preparing a potentially negative story about his dealings with the Kremlin-linked company.'
mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1009445784679534593

Sorry, NYT Llink:
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/politics/wilbur-ross-shorted-stock.html#click=t.co/mxuXFBy9PA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/politics/wilbur-ross-shorted-stock.html#click=t.co/mxuXFBy9PA

'Trump stands firm on immigration policy, sees it as a winner'

And:

'Former Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon said the president is emphasizing the policies that brought him to the White House.

"I think this is one of his best moments. I think this is a profile in courage. This is why America elected him," Bannon said. "This is not doubling down, it is tripling down" '

www.businessinsider.com/ap-trump-stands-firm-on-immigration-policy-sees-it-as-a-winner-2018-6?r=UK&IR=T

And here's Hillary Clinton stating that illegal immigrant children should be separated from their parents when they are caught and sent to jail:

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=NH6RZFU1_m0

' “I don’t believe it. I think it’s all a big lie… I don’t think that the people who are so-called being separated are what the news is portraying them to be.” Evangelicals talk to @SRuhle about the immigration crisis '
mobile.twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1009402570639577089

HRC is talking about unaccompanied children in that video.

if you're going to post fake news, this is not the thread.

Apparently, Paulie Walnuts is now in solitary for his own protection.(Majority Report pod on now).
I just can't squeeze out even an atom of sympathy for him.

Wait... light at the end of the tunnel for separated families?

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together after they are detained crossing the border illegally. She was at the White House where Trump told reporters he would be “signing something” shortly.

apnews.com/1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e/Trump-says-he'll-be-'signing-something'-on-detained-children

'Fake news' eh?

Well here's Bill Clinton:
Here's Hillary saying practically the same thing: www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=NH6RZFU1_m0
And here's Obama echoing: www.c-span.org/video/?c4656370/sen-barack-obama-illegal-immigration

But when Trump's does it it's outrage time.......

Ah, so El Presidente creates horrific crisis of mass child abuse and now he's going boast about fixing the crisis he created. 'Only I can do it'.

misspriggy yes, outrage time, agreed. If you got the facts right, you would know why.

Ah, so El Presidente creates horrific crisis of mass child abuse and now he's going boast about fixing the crisis he created. 'Only I can do it'

That's certainly how he'll spin it.

@misspriggy
Do you realise that we have a brain, and watch those clips and they're not about separating families at the border?

It's either that or Nielsen's desperate for some enchiladas, Lweji.

So 45 is going to stop this 'in a little while'. He's just said.

How long is a little while, and his cult followers will turn on a coin and say how wonderful he is saving the babies that the Democrats turned away.