At this point the liberal media is trying to make President Trump into Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies. Instead of “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads” a couple of New York Times writers say Trump tried to protect our Southern border with a moat filled with alligators and snakes. Don’t worry, this is all secondhand information from anonymous sources, so it must be real.
Two NYT writers have a book coming out about how evil Trump is in his pursuit to enforce existing immigration laws. Naturally the New York Times printed an excerpt from this poorly-sourced work of fiction because that’s how fake news works.
The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished, he ordered them to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico — by noon the next day.
The advisers feared the president’s edict would trap American tourists in Mexico, strand children at schools on both sides of the border and create an economic meltdown in two countries. Yet they also knew how much the president’s zeal to stop immigration had sent him lurching for solutions, one more extreme than the next.
Then after watching all 3 Austin Powers movies the NYT writers came up with this example of President Trump’s extremism:
Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
Gee, that sounds like something that really happened, doesn’t it? Maybe not, so the NYT writers were quick to show off their sources for this:
This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen White House and administration officials directly involved in the events of that week in March. They were granted anonymity to describe sensitive conversations with the president and top officials in the government.
Is there anything more reliable than the anonymous White House officials who are the source of nearly all reporting in the Age of Trump? Just a few short years ago journalists wouldn’t have dreamed of reporting garbage like this.
Somehow the credibility gets worse because, according to the NYT, this “alligator moat” meeting included former DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former CBP chief Kevin K. McAleenan, WH aide Stephen Miller, Mick Mulvaney, and Jared Kushner. On top of this packed room, the NYT wants us to believe that there were a dozen other White House and administration officials who all decided to leak information anonymously despite the fact that their presence would be known to the White House and their identities easily revealed.
If you’ve ever wondered why the Trump administration can’t seem to stop the leaks, this is the reason. The stuff the fake news reports is so preposterous and never happened that it’s impossible to trace back to the anonymous source. Trump’s people can’t take a thing that was never said and figure out who was in the room at the time to identify the leaker.
I, myself, was informed by an anonymous source with the NYT that these two writers are planning a follow up book about Trump’s whacky hi-jinx involving the travel ban. They found 2 dozen “top” White House officials who swear, anonymously of course, that Trump wanted to put Fat Bastard at the airport to sumo wrestle any Muslims who tried to enter the U.S.
