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They're criminals all of them! - GOP (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

CNN and some other news organizations misreported a sentence to be the opposite of what was said when Biden was reaponding to MTG being the shithead that she is.

He was asking how many people are killed by immigrants. He was not saying that immigrants killed thousands of people. Using the racist label is a problem, sure, but the asking vs stating is far more important.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/08/biden-state-of-the-union-illegals/

We listened to CNN and C-SPAN's video recording of Biden's speech several times. Based on our listening, during the in-question part of the speech, Biden did not say "illegals," but, rather, he used the uncommon phrase "legals" presumably in reference to killers who are not undocumented. The White House's official transcript of the speech and The New York Times also said, "How many of thousands of people are being killed by legals?"

Outlets like CNN, however, reported Biden said, "But how many of the thousands of people being killed by illegals."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Ok, guess I got some wrong info from multiple sources that are usually more reliable. I retract the specific reference.

Many of the actual POLICIES of his administration (including that straight outta Heritage Foundation executive order to let refugees above an arbitrarily low number suffer and likely die in Mexico) are still extremely harmful to immigrants while not solving any of the underlying problems.

Just like the GOP used to do before they became completely mask off about the cruelty being the point.