TRUMP: "A Lot Of People Say" George Soros Is Funding The Migrant Caravan

[workinclasszero]

The president told reporters on Wednesday he believes the anti-Semitic rumors the financier is paying refugees to illegally enter the country.

BY BESS LEVIN OCTOBER 31, 2018 7:14 PM

All this month, Donald Trump has been attempting to drum up fear among voters that a migrant caravan hundreds of miles from the border is a grave threat to their lives, and that only he and his fellow Republicans can protect them.

Two weeks ago, he claimed, without any evidence, that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the group. Later, to heighten the drama, he dispatched thousands of troops to “secure” the border and deny the migrants entry, despite the fact that 1) they’re traveling on foot and weeks away, 2) the military doesn’t actually have the power to do anything once they’re there, and 3) the group plans to surrender at a port of entry and seek amnesty, which is the only way they can do so under current U.S. law.

Perhaps worried that voters were not sufficiently scared enough to stave off a “blue wave,” though, on Wednesday, he pulled out the big guns and the mother of all dog whistles: a conspiracy theory about George Soros, a favorite bogeyman among white nationalists and neo-Nazis:

Link to tweet

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-george-soros-caravan

[sarah FAILIN]

1. I think Republicans fund it

They have the most to gain

[Fullduplexxx]

2. The press should respond with "many people are saying he isnt"

[Initech]

3. No, only him and his deranged conspiracy loving base is saying that.

The rest of us can see right through the bullshit.

[IggleDuer]

4. A lot of people say ...

... Trump was born overseas.

[Iliyah]

5. And 11 people died from that LIE.

[workinclasszero]

7. There will be more to come I fear

The president of the United States is spewing nazi Jewish hatred.

Is this not akin to blood libel?

He is winding up these fascist killers and setting them loose in this country!

[kentuck]

6. Who are these "people" that are telling him these things?

Are these figments of his imagination?

Or just lies to support his wishes?

[Funtatlaguy]

8. Just once I'd love to see a reporter ask him who is saying these things.

Some are saying
A lot of people are saying

Not once has he been asked to name someone.
Of course, the reporters know that he’s just making stuff up.
That he’s the only one saying something.
But, they never challenge him on it.

[The Genealogist]

9. Many people are saying Donald Trump looks like a pumpkin with a dead rodent on top of it

I heard that, I mean, bigly.

I am used to this tactic, at least a form of it. My maternal grandmother was a very manipulative woman, full of hatred for a lot of people, including my father. She would make up a lie about someone (big lies, dangerous lies) and say "A woman told me..." One such whopper involved her telling Dad's parents that he was wanted for drugs and a county sheriff was looking for him. My father didn't do any drugs, of course. But his mother was panicked (atypical of her) and drove to Wichita with Grandpa, where Dad was working construction and a phone was unavailable, to get to the bottom of this. It was pure bull.

Needless to say, I learned early on to separate the truth from the bull. And Donald Trump is full of bull.

[SummerSnow]

10. 11 died from this lie, some were injured, families are heartbroken

and devastated, a community is hurting and he is doubling down on this. Speechless.

[malaise]

11. He does not give a flying fuck

Truthfully the media is irresponsible for carrying these fucking lies.

[awesomerwb1]

12. Learned from Faux spews

Who can forget the "some people say...." Faux line when attacking/accusing a Dem of some made up story BS.

[leftynyc]

13. Would it be so hard for these reporters

to ask him to NAME NAMES of these many people? WTF is wrong with them?

[thucythucy]

14. A lot of people say...

Just once I'd like to hear someone respond directly--

"A lot of people say you have a micro-penis, and that your inability to perform sexually is the cause of your hatred of women."

Talk about smashing pumpkins!

[ProfessorGAC]

15. A Lot Of People Are Stupid

And you're listening to the stupid ones.

Case closed, li'l Donnie.

[jcgoldie]

16. whenever Trump says "A lot of people say..."

You know that what he says next is going to be even more of a ridiculous completely fabricated statement than is even his normal bullshit.