Trump wanted to have U.S. forces equipped with bayonets to stop migrants at border
Source: Washington Post
President Trump told aides last year he wanted U.S. forces with bayonets to block people from crossing into the United States across the Mexico border, one of several proposals he floated at moments of peak frustration with his inability to contain a migration surge, according to current and former administration officials involved in those discussions.
Trump also suggested the excavation of a border trench, or moat, that could be stocked with dangerous reptiles, the officials said, adding that such ideas, along with the bayonets, were not taken especially seriously by aides in the White House.
The New York Times reported Tuesday on Trumps proposal for a moat filled with snakes and alligators, along with his suggestion that U.S. forces could open fire on migrants as they attempted to enter the country, potentially shooting at their legs to wound but not kill them.
The president denied those claims in a tweet Wednesday. Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moat stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border, he wrote. I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News! The Washington Post independently confirmed that the president did, in fact, say those things during border security meetings, including at moments when he demanded the wholesale closure of the Mexico border and appeared prepared to enforce the decree with violence.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-wanted-to-have-us-forces-equipped-with-bayonets-to-stop-migrants-at-border-among-other-ideas-officials-say/2019/10/03/445fc788-e554-11e9-a6e8-8759c5c7f608_story.html
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dchill
(38,562 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)The man has gone looney in the hamberderest of ways. Put another dime in the jukebox, Baby, and get me some orange hair dye that sticks.
Viva Max!
marble falls
(57,355 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,481 posts)inside the WH/administration quoted in the innumerable articles written about his maniacal statements. Seems to me "they" should bear the brunt of the blame for Fake News.
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)by making it all Crazytown to use some pundit's concept, and thus destroy truth, reality, sanity, and voters minds so they will believe anything. In my view anyway. It's all deliberate, a focused strategy that is unpredictable.