“From October 16 to November 6 — aka Election Day — President Donald Trump sent 45 tweets mentioning the border between the United States and Mexico. Between October 16 and October 31, he sent nine tweets referring to the caravan of migrants making their way across Mexico.
Here`s a typical one: Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!
Since November 6 — 8 days and counting — Trump hasn`t mentioned the so-called caravan once in a tweet.”
CNN
During the weeks preceding the midterm elections Donald Trump peppered his campaign speeches with apocalyptic warnings about the caravan of MS-13 gangbangers and drug traffickers making their way across Mexico on their way to invade America. He sounded like a drunk Nero warning the Romans that the barbarians were at the gate ready to rape their women and plunder their wealth.
Trump`s Twitter feed was also replete with warnings about the imminent invasion by hordes of brown people; his followers were terrified that soon there would be a taco truck parked in every corner and a bodega in every town square.
But once the election was over and Democrats gained control of the House Trump stopped mentioning the so-called caravan. Somehow, this terrifying caravan must have been miraculously stopped before reaching the border, or maybe these thousands of men, women and children, marching together for safety, never posed a threat to the United States.
What`s tragic is that only a fraction of these poor desperate souls seeking freedom in our great democracy will be granted asylum. What`s amazing is that even with a racist authoritarian in the White House thousands still seek asylum in America.
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