This is US President Donald J. Trump campaigning ahead of the American mid-term elections on 6 November 2018.
As with everything Donald Trump tweets - a little fact checking is in order.It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now! https://t.co/0pWiwCHGbh pic.twitter.com/2crea9HF7G— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
Firstly, the
convicted felon in this video entered the USA illegally twice. The first as a 16 year-old under a Democratic Administration
in 1963 ,which later gaoled and then deported him in 1997 on drug offences.
The second time he entered the USA was under
a Republican Administration sometime around 2002 and he was not arrested until
2014 – after the drug-fuelled killings for which he was sentenced to death in April 2018.
Secondly, the
Fox News mass scene shown is not necessarily video of recent events as Trump has a history of misrepresentation and, the current 'migrant caravans’ are nowhere
near the USA-Mexico border, as the first caravan had not yet reached San Juan Guichicovi and the second was yet to enter Mexican territory on 31 October
2018. Both are quite literally thousands of kilometres south of the United
States and members of these caravans are travelling on foot.
The yellow line represents the distance the first caravan was from the US border as the crow flies on 1 November 2018. The second caravan is at least 200-300 kilometres behind the first.
The yellow line represents the distance the first caravan was from the US border as the crow flies on 1 November 2018. The second caravan is at least 200-300 kilometres behind the first.
What Trump is also not saying in his campaign ad is that no previous migrant caravan has ever made it to the US border. The last one reportedly made it to Mexico City before petering out - at least 1,300 kilometres short of reaching the United States.
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