He lies when he blames the Democrats.
He lies when he said it includes people from the Middle East.
He lies when he said it includes criminals (or at least offers no proof).
He’s a bigot trying to excite the bigots who are a large part of his base.
Nobody has presented any evidence that there are people from the Middle East in the migrant caravan. pic.twitter.com/k1coxNpZFY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 22, 2018
As is frequently the case whenever Trump says anything new before 9 a.m., this "Middle Easterners" tweet appears to have been inspired by Fox and Friends. https://t.co/UGRnxaSBj6
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 22, 2018
Follow the bouncing ball: 1) Guatemala's president said at a conference that they had arrested, over some period, 100 people linked to terror. Completely unrelated to the caravan. 2) Right-wing sites used that to raise caravan fears. 3) Fox joined in. 4) The president joined in. pic.twitter.com/6dxKq2HEK8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 22, 2018
Trump’s tweet linking migrants to “unknown Middle Easterners” is a reprise of old GOP rhetoric. https://t.co/BRvknmROqf pic.twitter.com/6J6GWFpi59
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 22, 2018
I asked DHS for evidence for this POTUS claim that “Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with caravan migrants… (thread) https://t.co/4zsXHWbNzb
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 22, 2018
Hello from southern Mexico, where no one covering the caravan has met anyone from the Middle East, and there is no way to discern anyone’s criminal history. https://t.co/wKoCfhY0mO
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) October 22, 2018
.@ABC's team in southern Mexico has encountered no "Middle Easterners" amid the group, reports @mattgutmanABC https://t.co/SLoQYMufbk
— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) October 22, 2018
Have not seen a single “Middle Easterner” in the caravan, @realDonaldTrump. Have seen hundreds of women and children and babies, though. https://t.co/skzF0IEGCi
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) October 22, 2018
"It's inconceivable that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people." — VP Mike Pence tries to defend Trump on his caravan claims
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 23, 2018
This is the perfect ending to the @juliehdavis piece today https://t.co/dVxDbRyNiZ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 23, 2018
Trump did not say Middle Easterners are "traveling through Mexico toward the US". He tweeted "unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in" to the caravan itself. Not the same thing. Also, is there specific evidence that citizens of those Middle Eastern countries are threats? https://t.co/SnsXpZag1r
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 23, 2018
Sad! 