By Mike Huckabee
September 11, 2024
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Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris and the ABC “moderators” put the “bait” into “debate,” ganging up on Trump to bait him into losing his cool. Unfortunately, too often, he went for it, allowing himself to get distracted, angry and defensive and missing many opportunities to turn the focus back where it belonged, on issues of most concern to voters like the economy.
Meanwhile, Harris was thoroughly prepped and rehearsed for Tuesday’s debate, by a partner in one of the top Democrat law firms no less, and the long hours of preparation showed. What we’re saying is, she had been carefully coached to lie.
In fact, just as President Biden had done in his debate with former President Donald Trump, she lied throughout the evening, building a straw man out of views Trump doesn’t even hold so she could set fire to it, and furthering the most outrageous and conclusively debunked hoaxes against him. Project 2025, a national abortion ban, the “bloodbath” hoax, even the Charlottesville “fine people hoax” --- really?? Some of these lies are so long-debunked that they actually have names with the word “hoax” in them. How ignorant must one have to be to find this impressive? Well, at least we know the Democrats’ target audience.
Biden at least had senility as an excuse for repeating all that slander; Kamala must own the label of serial liar. Last night, there was a whole lotta lyin’ goin’ on. Democrats do this because, as Harry Reid once gloated, it works. Feeling guilty for repeating known lies that get you votes from the gullible is apparently for “suckers and losers.”
Recall that when Kamala was called out once before for lying in a previous debate, she ended up tacitly admitting it, offering the justification that “it was just a debate.” So, she went onstage last night already on record as believing it’s fine to lie in a debate if that’s how you can win. She showed us she still believes that.
ABC NEWS, rather than pin her down on issues and call out her many lies, actively helped her get away with her deceptions, never once correcting her while frequently interjecting “fact”-checks on Trump (seven by one media count), many of which turned out to be wrong. The debate really did turn out to be three-against-one, just as we’d anticipated it would. (NOTE: Still, that’s all the more reason for the scattershot Trump we saw last night to have been more focused and better prepared and rested, instead of winging it. He had to know they’d all be aligned against him.)
Numerous instances of ABC’s shameful behavior are detailed elsewhere in today’s newsletter, but here we’d like to focus on Trump’s allegation that Haitian immigrants had overwhelmed the small town of Springfield, Ohio, to such an extent that they were stealing residents’ pets and tame ducks in the park to use as food.
“In Springfield,” Trump said, “they’re eating the dogs --- the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” (Kamala is laughing at this.) “And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”
The debate threatened to go off the rails when Trump brought this up. The moderators’ (and Kamala’s) over-the-top reaction suggested that only a crackpot would actually “go there.” Why, the story is so wild, it couldn’t possibly be true!
But, sadly, life in 2024 is so increasingly bizarre that this is not at all hard to believe. When moderator David Muir --- whose own “ABC World News Tonight” news stories on Trump run 93 percent negative --- jumped in quickly to “fact”-check President Trump on this, it didn’t go well. “...You bring up Springfield, Ohio,” Muir said to Trump. “And ABC NEWS did reach out to the city manager there. He told us, ‘There have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” Trump said he’d seen people on television claiming their pets had been taken and used for food. (And, yes, they have claimed this.)
“So, maybe [the city manager] said that, and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager,” Trump responded. This makes sense, as what city manager would WANT to admit such a horrifying thing about his town?
“I’m not taking this from television,” Muir said. “I’m taking it from the city manager.” But Trump remained insistent. Kamala, in the split screen, was wearing an amused, faux-bewildered face intended to communicate that Trump must be nuts.
Side note: the one who really might be crazy is California Rep. Eric Swalwell, who had already tried to make fun of this story and ended up just looking stupid.
And as long as we’re having a little fun, here’s an example of that great American entrepreneurial spirit…
https://shop.thelibertydaily.com/products/make-cats-safe-again-t-shirt
Springfield, Ohio, is a “bedroom community,” quite blue politically, of 60,000 inhabitants located on the outskirts of Dayton and Columbus. For the past few years, it has done its best to absorb about 20,000 Haitian immigrants and somehow handle the resulting chaos. Police and city leaders have denied the recent wild stories coming out of Springfield, notably the reports that immigrants are catching and killing pets and tame ducks for food. But from THE FEDERALIST, here’s a two-week-old police report with audio from a witness saying, “They all had geese in their hands.”
There were two men and two women, each carrying a single goose. As Tristan Justice writes, “Testimonies from Springfield residents at a recent city commission meeting record neighbors reporting shocking details of migrant behavior, from outright harassment to allegedly gruesome executions of local wildlife in public spaces.” A Springfield resident named Anthony Harris complained to city officials that “they’re in the park, grabbing up ducks by the neck, and cutting their head off and walking off with them. They’re eating them.”
The local police have said it’s incorrect to claim Haitians are “catching, killing, and eating house pets.” But it’s hard to believe them when they’re also denying emphatic reports from residents of immigrants engaging in other illegal activities on their property such as squatting and littering. Springfield Deputy Director of Public Safety and Operations Jason Via told NPR, “I think it’s sad that some people are using this as an opportunity to spread hate or spread fear.” Sounds like a reason to deny the scary truth.
Trump running mate Sen. J. D. Vance, who grew up about 50 miles away from Springfield, says he posted on X that Haitians in the town were eating pets after “a high volume of complaints” from residents came to his office. Oh, and PJ MEDIA has a picture posted on X of an alleged Haitian immigrant walking down a Springfield residential street, holding a big dead goose. That might not be enough evidence for ABC NEWS debate moderators, but it seems pretty persuasive to us.
Of course, lost in this discussion during the debate was the real issue: the impact this influx of immigrants is having on the people who live in Springfield and the enormous strain on city services, a problem cities across America are suffering because of the Biden-Harris open border. People are confronted with threatening behavior on their own property, they see and hear about what’s happening to the geese in the park, perhaps their dogs and cats go missing, and they feel just as unsafe as the animals are. Some are quite frightened.
“Look at me,” said one fragile, 95-pound woman who was complaining of daily threats and harassment by Haitian men squatting on her own property. “I couldn’t defend myself if I had to. I don’t understand what you expect of us as citizens. Who’s protecting us if we’re protecting them? Who’s protecting me?”
The phone call about the geese was placed on August 26, which was before Springfield suddenly became nationally known as a center of the immigration crisis.
As Becca Lower at REDSTATE put it, both Kamala and the ABC moderators “tried to wave it away as unserious and unconfirmed information.” But “it’s happening and very real,” Lower said, “for people in Springfield and across the country placed in danger by this administration’s dangerous border policies.”
Kamala can laugh about people’s pets being killed if she thinks that will help her win, but her time as Border Czar has been cat-astrophic. Not to sound dog-matic...
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1833674943491395712
Here’s some must-read background if you’re wondering how Springfield got into this mess. The Haitians were flown in by the federal government, but it’s what the city asked for...
https://instapundit.com/671649/
https://theothermccain.com/2024/09/10/springfield-gets-what-it-deserves/
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