Trump claimed women were gagged with tape. Then Border Patrol tried to find some evidence.
Source: Vox
Its become a staple of President Donald Trumps riffs on the horrors of the US-Mexico border, something he knows by heart so well that he doesnt even need it scripted on a teleprompter: Human traffickers gag women with tape so they cant even breathe before packing them into vans and driving them across the border illegally.
But two weeks after Trump had started talking about tape-gagged women when a January 17 Washington Post article had questioned the claim a top Border Patrol official had to email agents to ask if they had any information that the claim was actually true.
The email, shown to Vox by a source within Border Patrol, was sent as a request for information by an assistant Border Patrol chief, apparently on behalf of the office of Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan (referred to internally as C-1). It asked agents to reply within less than two hours with any information (in any format) regarding claims of tape-gagged women and even linked to the Post article for further info.
Voxs source indicated that they and others in their sector hadnt heard anything that would back up Trumps claims, but wasnt sure if agents in other sectors had provided information. However, no one from the Trump administration has come forward to offer evidence for the claim, either before or after the internal Border Patrol email was sent. (Customs and Border Protection did not respond to a request for comment.)
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Read more: https://www.vox.com/2019/1/27/18198729/women-tape-truck-smuggling-trafficking-border
Text of the email at the link.
Achilleaze
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riversedge
(70,242 posts)...........as of Friday hed made 10 references to it in 22 days without anyone knowing exactly where Trump got it from.
Border experts have told the Post and other reporters that theyve never heard anything like what Trumps talking about.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Or it's in the sequel to the Pee tape
Blackjackdavey
(178 posts)Season 2, episode 2. Recently released. Trump is an idiot.
bedazzled
(1,765 posts)Shudder
Iggo
(47,558 posts)That's one way to tell a lie.
It's also one way to get caught.
CharleyDog
(757 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Does that count?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He is repulsive. Seems to have added a couple more chins just in the last week. Maybe Maleria's nude photos have evidence of women bound and gagged? Roger Stone belongs to a "Swingers Club" maybe he showed tRump some photos like that??
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)And the evening news breathlessly tells us how he caved but say nothing, and I mean nothing, to debunk his lies which are so easily debunked.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)A simple review of Fox & Friends, Jeanne Pirro, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson's shows will likely pinpoint the source of Trump's stories.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Of the presidential limo. That's a lot of detail that seems to come from nowhere.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Believing all the BS and propaganda he's promoting . Its unbelievable anyone is that stupid to believe anything this serial liar , and corrupt criminal says , or does, but they do, still.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Perhaps he thinks it's a documentary.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)you're absolutely right.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)Sounds like methodology from the Kavanaugh chronicles. Or perhaps Spanky tried it? The speech was rambling and bizzare in any case
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)He is either lying, projecting or both.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Jayme Closs, from Barron, Wisconsin actually was bound, duct taped and put into a trunk of a car when she was abducted. Maybe he just appropriated that idea, or thought he remembered it pertaining to the border. More likely he just had it rattling around in his brain until it popped out as this lie.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)and the details of her abduction were known. More likely he got the story from a movie or from the dank depths of his own sexual fantasies.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)a damn brain scan and plenty of other medical testing. I want to know if he saw a movie and now he believes it's real, or did he pick and choose a portion of a fictional movie and is now using it in a gaslight experiment on the American people.
I consider both issues serious. He's not just running for office now. I'm happy that journalists found this portion of his running mouth important. It creeps out people, and I understand why Hollywood would use the premise. Washington DC, not so much.
Damn, fox viewers will believe it and boy do we have issues.
CharleyDog
(757 posts)IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)oh. wrong. no one is talking about this on the news that it was a made up story.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Unless you're actually in the business of human corpse trafficking, you would think that suffocating your own inventory would have a negative effect on sales.
rocktivity
Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)1. Trump claimed women were bound with tape
2. THEN, the Border Patrol tried to find some evidence
I just had to let it sink in again. Shoot off mouth first, ask questions later.
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)And thought it wa real.
CharleyDog
(757 posts)woman he wants to silence, tie up, and render helpless? Yes, her. Our Nancy. Melania appears to have been already silenced long ago.
underpants
(182,829 posts)Or maybe it was from another source.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Wonder why?