Trump Vows Deportations From Town Rocked By “Pet-Eating” Lies

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Trump, speaking earlier in California, promised “large deportations” from Springfield, Ohio, a town that has become a flashpoint as Republicans have spread false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets. President Joe Biden criticized Trump for disparaging the migrants. This as absentee ballots have started going out in Alabama, and other states begin sending mail-in ballots later this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. I'm Jim Acosta in for Laura Coates on this Friday the 13th and if you're the superstitious kind it's a date that can feel a little
0:15.9	unsettling slightly creepy but if you're following this year's presidential campaign well
0:20.3	it's just another Friday just today alone Donald Trump made a feeble
0:24.2	attempt to distance himself from a conspiracy theorist while actively
0:28.1	fueling the dangerous lie that migrants are eating pets in Springfield Ohio. His
0:32.4	infamous Devon claim from Tuesday's debate is now
0:35.6	ricocheting across social media. They're eating the cats.
0:43.0	They're eating the cats.
0:44.0	They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
0:49.0	It's catchy and the internet is having a good laugh laugh but the people of Springfield, Ohio are not.
0:54.8	A second bomb threat rattled that city today just as Trump stoked further division when
0:59.7	he promised to target the city with mass deportations if he wins.
1:04.0	We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio.
1:10.0	Large deportations.
1:12.0	We're going to get these people out. They call them nests of
1:14.0	bad people. They're all now in the United States and they're now taking over cities.
1:17.9	It's like an invasion from within.
1:22.0	Except that the Haitians are there legally.
1:24.0	Trump is sticking to that message.
1:26.0	She's also defending far-right activist Laura Loomer, a recent campaign-plane companion who has
1:31.8	a documented history of lying and making racist comments.
1:35.0	Laura has been a supporter of mine, just like a lot of people are supporters and she's been a supporter of mind.
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