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Trump Lashes Out at CNN Reporter For Asking Him About ‘Border Crisis’, ‘The Whole Thing is Ridiculous!’
Donald Trump lashed out at a CNN reporter on Wednesday after he asked the president why the situation on the southern border has only become a “national emergency” and “crisis” since the Democrats won back the House of Representatives.
Prior to his departure to Texas for a border photo op, Trump tried to claim that there has been a “national emergency” on the border for years now and he pointed to past statements by former President Barack Obama about a flood of migrant children at the border to back up his point.
“Look at President Obama’s statements from the past, numerous statements where he calls it a crisis,” Trump said. “This is a crisis. You have human traffic, you have drugs, you have [inaudible] coming in, you have gangs. MS-13, we’re taking them out by the thousand and bringing them back. This is a crisis.”
CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond then said to Trump that he has been president for two years and has still not secured funding for his supposed top priority, even when Republicans ran both chambers of Congress.
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“Look, look, you can all play cute,” Trump angrily replied. “And I’d say 80 percent of you are in passive coordination with the opposition party!”
I asked Trump, who said he is prepared to declare a national emergency, when this emergency/crisis began.
"Oh, it began a long time — ask President Obama," Trump said.
I then pointed out that he has been President for 2 years.
His response: "Look, look, you can all play cute."— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) January 10, 2019
Trump also said that there is another caravan forming in Honduras.
Pres Trump says there's "another major caravan forming in Honduras." He says "we're trying to break it up." He calls it bigger than anything we’ve seen. He says drones and sensors won't stop it. "You know what’s going to stop it in its tracks? A nice powerful wall," he says. pic.twitter.com/v6b0XKozBs
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 10, 2019
WATCH:
TRUMP berates assembled media: "Look, you can all play cute, and I say 80% of you are possibly in cooperation with the opposition party. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous."
"Here's the story: there is another major caravan forming right now in Honduras." pic.twitter.com/2sHnqiJ2nv
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 10, 2019
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