Reporter Asks About Trump’s ‘Animals’ Comment – Sanders FLOORS The Whole Room!
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During a roundtable discussion of California’s sanctuary state laws, President Trump described members of MS-13 as “animals,” adding that immigration authorities were now “taking them out of the country at a level and rate that’s never happened before.” This isn’t the first time Trump has used the phrase to describe the members of the crime organization who have been classified by the FBI as the most violent and organized criminal network in the United States.
Things got even better when Sarah Sanders Huckabee, the White House Press Secretary, doubled down on the comments by referring to MS-13 members as “animals” when she was talking to the reporters. She wanted to clarify that President Trump was specifically talking about people who had a history of crime and were members of one of the most violent gangs that Americans have ever experienced. She floored the reporters when she pointed this out, putting those who dared question Trump’s commentary or try to twist it into things he didn’t actually say.Daily Caller reports: “I want to ask you because so many people around the country are talking about it over the past 24 hours, what did the president mean when he said some immigrants aren’t people, they’re animals,” Portnoy asked.
Sanders reiterated that the president was referring to MS-13 gang members and explained the gang’s history of violence.
“This is one of the most vicious and deadly gangs that operates by the motto of r-pe, control and k-ll,” Sanders continued. “Frankly, I don’t think the term that the president used was strong enough. MS-13 has done heinous acts. It took an animal to st-b a man 100 times and dec-pitate him and rip his heart out. It took an animal to beat a woman they were s-x trafficking with a bat, 28 times, indenting part of her body. And it took an animal to kidnap and r-pe a 13-year-old Houston girl.”
Sanders added, “The president should continue to use platform and everything he can do under the law to stop these kinds of horrible, horrible, disgusting people.”
During the press briefing, CBS’ Steven Portnoy asked Sanders if Trump believes “some immigrants” are animals. To which Sanders was quick to reply that that was not what the president had said. But that MS-13 members are.”
Here is more on the situation from The Hill: “The White House said Thursday that President Trump was “clearly” referring to members of the MS-13 gang when he called some immigrants “animals” and argued the controversial label is more than appropriate.
“If the media and liberals want to defend MS-13, they’re more than welcome to,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “Frankly, I don’t think the term the president used is strong enough.”
“The term ‘animal’ doesn’t go far enough,” she said.
Sanders’s comments are likely to further enflame the debate surrounding Trump’s heated immigration rhetoric.
A day earlier, Trump sparked criticism when he used the term during a meeting with California officials opposed to the state’s “sanctuary city” policy.
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims told the president she was frustrated by how California’s laws have limited the ability of local law enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration laws, specifically in regards to the MS-13 g