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Showing Original Post only (View all)White House Denies Trump Will Call Up National Guard for Immigrant Roundup [View all]
Source: Bloomberg
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied a report by the Associated Press that President Donald Trump was considering using the National Guard to round up undocumented immigrants.
"That is 100 percent not true. It is false," Spicer told reporters aboard Air Force One, calling the APs report that Trump may call up as many as 100,000 troops "irresponsible."
Spicer said he had no information about the origin of the report.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-17/spicer-denies-trump-will-call-up-guard-for-immigrant-roundup?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics
IMO, this was a setup to discredit the media and panic our Latino population, folks.
Natasha Bertrand? @NatashaBertrand
"AP reporter noted they asked [for WH comment] multiple times before publication"
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Sean Spicer tells press pool that AP report on National Guard being used to round up people in the U.S. illegally is "100% not true."
https://mobile.twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/832617494338605059
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White House Denies Trump Will Call Up National Guard for Immigrant Roundup [View all]
herding cats
Feb 2017
OP
Another DU'er posited that Bannon feds false news stories. I guess we'll find out.
KittyWampus
Feb 2017
#1
That can't happen. It's unconstitutional. There are severe limitations on the executive branch...
George II
Feb 2017
#3
The state (s) just used NG to kick out/ arrest hundreds of one camp of pipeline protesters... now
Sunlei
Feb 2017
#15
That's smart of you. I about to check out for a few days and recharge myself.
herding cats
Feb 2017
#14
the REPUBLICANS EO said all LOCAL police are deputized as immigration agents, so yes if you open the
Sunlei
Feb 2017
#8
Spicer is supposed to give the press the facts of the Admins policies, answer the questions.
Sunlei
Feb 2017
#19
This denial has as much credibility as concluding no Russian involvement because...
CincyDem
Feb 2017
#10
Here is the AP story--but this one has Spicy's denial: Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigr
riversedge
Feb 2017
#12
tRump's "fine tuned machine" would not respond to multiple requests for confirmation/denial.
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2017
#22