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Opinion: The Trump Family’s Hypocrisy On Immigration by abc115: 4:38pm On Dec 18, 2023
At a naturalization ceremony this past week, former First Lady Melania Trump offered words of encouragement to some two dozen people being sworn in as some of America’s newest citizens. A day later, her husband, former President Donald Trump, was spewing vile comments about immigrants from many of the very same countries.

Melania’s remarks came at a swearing-in ceremony for new Americans Friday at the National Archives — the government agency that her husband repeatedly attacked after leaving office for seeking the return of classified documents he is alleged to have wrongly taken from the White House.

Slovenia-born Melania, who appeared at the event by way of a personal invitation from the Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, a Biden appointee, shared with attendees her own struggles becoming a naturalized American.

“Traversing the challenges of the immigration process opened my eyes to the harsh realities people face, including you, who try to become US citizens,” Melania said.

One has to wonder how much greater her challenge would have been if the leading GOP candidate for president at the time had been suggesting that newcomers to America were “poisoning the blood of our country.” That’s what Donald Trump said in October and again at a rall

When Trump first made that jarring statement, many experts noted it seemed to have echoes of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and modern day White supremacists. At Saturday’s rally, the former president warned of a threat to the US emanating from a wide swath of immigrants “from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

The head of the Anti-Defamation League raised alarm bells about Trump’s remark, stating, “insinuating that immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ echoes nativist talking points and has the potential to cause real danger and violence.”

The group added, “We have seen this kind of toxic rhetoric inspire real-world violence before in places like Pittsburgh and El Paso” — naming two locations where gunmen cited the threat of immigrants as justification for their deadly rampages.

But Melania didn’t mention her husband’s xenophobic statements, nor did she touch on his vow, if elected to the White House again in 2024, to make it harder to apply for asylum in the US. He has also pledged to end birthright citizenship, which extends citizen status to those who are born here, and vowed to revive his travel ban on people coming to the US from mostly Muslim countries.

The former First Lady meanwhile, urged the new Americans on Friday to embrace the responsibilities that came with US citizenship by “actively participating in the democratic process and guarding our freedom.” But there was no mention made, of course, of her husband’s efforts to undermine our democratic process with his attempted coup, for which he now faces numerous felonies in both Georgia and federal court.

And let’s not forget the laughable hypocrisy of Melania speaking at all at the National Archives, the very government agency that pleaded with her husband for months to return documents. Some of those documents, which the former president took from the White House to and back to Mar-a-Lago, were highly classified.

Trump’s refusal to return these documents led to the opening of a criminal probe by the Department of Justice that ultimately led to the former president being charged with a total of 40 felonies. In response, Trump waged public attacks on the National Archives – such as falsely claiming after his Mar-a-Lago residence was searched by the FBI in August 2022, that all the agency had to do was ask and he would have returned the documents. In reality, the Archives had made numerous requests over a several-month period for the return of the documents that Trump rebuffed.

Trump has taken aim at the National Archives ever since, lying in a social media post at the time that President Obama had been allowed to take “33 million pages of documents” to Chicago after leaving the White House. He wasn’t. In reality, the documents Trump referred to were actually being stored at an Archives facility in suburban Chicago for possible use in Obama’s future presidential library.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/18/opinions/donald-trump-melania-naturalization-immigration-obeidallah/index.html
Re: Opinion: The Trump Family’s Hypocrisy On Immigration by atiku4President(m): 4:46pm On Dec 18, 2023
Trump is not against immigrantion, but illegal immigration
Re: Opinion: The Trump Family’s Hypocrisy On Immigration by davinchecodes(m): 4:55pm On Dec 18, 2023
You are so stupid, you just listen to fake news lol.
He said illegal migrants.
Those people are constituting nuisance when they commit crime it's hard to get them cause there's little to no documentation.

Go to New York and see how black people are complaining.

Nobody wants illegal migration.
Re: Opinion: The Trump Family’s Hypocrisy On Immigration by abc115: 5:03pm On Dec 18, 2023
davinchecodes:
You are so stupid, you just listen to fake news lol.
He said illegal migrants.
Those people are constituting nuisance when they commit crime it's hard to get them cause there's little to no documentation.

Go to New York and see how black people are complaining.

Nobody wants illegal migration.


See this idiotic slave that wasted his parent money and unable to read a paragraph synopsis and make meaning out it .
Re: Opinion: The Trump Family’s Hypocrisy On Immigration by davinchecodes(m): 5:50pm On Dec 18, 2023
abc115:


See this idiotic slave that wasted his parent money and unable to read a paragraph synopsis and make meaning out it .

Keyboard warrior 🪖 ⌨️ continue

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