Trump Recommends Shooting Migrants, Building Alligator Moat

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  1. crankalicious profile image84
    crankaliciousposted 5 years ago

    This is from a New York Times story citing more than a dozen witnesses to these events.

    President Trump recommended shooting migrants to keep them from crossing the border and building a moat filled with alligators, so presumably migrants would be devoured if they tried to swim across.

    This is a pretty ridiculous story. If I'm Trump, at this point, I'm instructing my staff to feed the media stories like this one to keep them reporting garbage because then I can go back later and attack them for being so stupid.

    This story can't possibly be true and is more likely a set-up by Trump to keep the media off balance and to show that they'll write a story about anything.

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    1. GA Anderson profile image84
      GA Andersonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I agree it is a ridiculous story.

      GA

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      1. crankalicious profile image84
        crankaliciousposted 5 years agoin reply to this

        How the heck does the Times get 12 corroborating witnesses on this?

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        1. Randy Godwin profile image59
          Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

          I don't doubt it's true as Trump has so many different looney ideas.

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          1. crankalicious profile image84
            crankaliciousposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            I recommended a similar thing (sort of as a lark) and got banned from the forums.

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            1. Randy Godwin profile image59
              Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

              I can attest to the mods not having a sense of humor....

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          promisemposted 5 years agoin reply to this

          Because Trump's traumatized staff is willing to talk about it, like they are about Ukraine and other topics.

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        promisemposted 5 years agoin reply to this

        An opinion? Newspapers like the Times get information like that from multiple sources, both for confirmation and legal protection.

        It's only false if 12 people lied to them and all said the exact same thing.

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        1. GA Anderson profile image84
          GA Andersonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

          Yes promise, that is only my opinon.

          GA

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  2. Live to Learn profile image71
    Live to Learnposted 5 years ago

    As evidenced by the comments here, lefties will believe anything if it boils down to 'orange man bad'. I'm glad to see everyone else looking at this with skepticism.

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    1. crankalicious profile image84
      crankaliciousposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      So if the NYT provides a story with over a dozen sources and you don't believe it, what's your basis for deciding what is accurate or truthful?

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