Julio3000 (02-17-2017)
@AP: BREAKING: Trump administration considers mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants.
@SteveKopack: Regarding draft memo reported on by the AP, a senior administration official tells @NBCNews' @PeterAlexander: "This is false."
@AP: 4 states that border Mexico are included in the Trump admin. proposal _ California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Denials of this are coming pretty hot and heavy.
Possibility 1: totally false (doubt that AP would bite if that were the case)
2) Distraction
3) Drafted and considered, but rejected
4) Stalking horse for something less draconian
AP points out that WH and DHS were asked multiple times for comment. This really points to some bad faith.
The credibility (or lack thereof) of the WH communications shop casts the denials in a strange light.
Last edited by Julio3000; 02-17-2017 at 11:01 AM.
They should at least give illegals a one month window to leave the country before unleashing a bunch of weekend warriors who are not trained for such things.
If they couldn't get a comment from the White House (or had any doubt whatsoever about their source - which I guess they didn't) then they shouldn't have run it.
This is the White House trying to railroad yesterday's narrative. It wouldn't surprise me if they leaked the document themselves.
This administraion seems to go counter to PR conventional wisdom . The Muslim Ban, the border roundup and something else were all late Friday or Saturday AM events.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
If the conversation is about the trustworthiness and motivation of the media, advantage Trump. A lot of members of the media are all too prone to playing into this dynamic.
If AP believed in the sourcing for the story, they aren't at fault or running it without comment as long as they solicited comment. All the WH had to do was say "it was an early draft that was never seriously considered" . . . which is what DHS now say. That they didn't is either irresponsible or cynical.