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VIDEO: 'Will You Apologize?': Doocy Asks Psaki About The White House Slamming Border Patrol Agents Apr 19, 2022
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if she and President Joe Biden will apologize for slamming border patrol agents now that they will not be criminally charged after being accused of 'whipping' migrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALHpqPYeGac
VIDEO: 'The Five' debate if Biden should apologize to border agents Apr 18, 2022
'The Five' reacts to Biden refusing to apologize to border agents for 'whipping' smear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-n1lkODNkE
Direct Headline: Biden Owes Border Patrol Belated Apology Over Phony Charges of “Whipping” Illegal Aliens
...We have now passed the six-month mark since the (Biden) administration called for an investigation of (the US Border Patrol and it's ) horse patrol agents engaging with Haitian migrants illegally entering the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas (Circa September 2021). The administration still (has not) released the completed investigation report.... clearly making up career-ending, false accusations about the agents to change the narrative away from shocking daily videos of 15,000 illegal aliens amassing under the International Bridge in Del Rio...For a week in September, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin published daily drone videos of thousands of illegal aliens gathering under the Del Rio International Bridge. The mainstream media were nowhere to be found....The Biden administration tried to quash the videos with a made-up Federal Aviation Administration drone ban. When Melugin continued posting videos taken from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter, the Biden administration removed the drone ban and made up a new story: Border Patrol agents on horseback were whipping Haitian migrants....
Suddenly, just about every news network reported that the men serving in the horse patrol were committing unprovoked assaults on Haitian migrants, violating their civil rights....The Department of Homeland Security immediately suspended use of the horse patrols. The agents were placed on administrative leave. They were rapidly labeled “guilty until proven innocent,” (in the Court Of Public Opinion) and six months later, the administration still won’t declare the agents innocent.... President Joe Biden said....“It’s outrageous, I promise you, those people will pay … [T]here is [an] investigation underway now, and there will be consequences,”...Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas quickly piled on, saying the images of agents in Del Rio turning back Haitian migrants were “horrifying (and) do not reflect who we are"....(and added that the images) “painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”...Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., accused the agents of committing human rights abuses. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also denounced the Border Patrol, tweeting: “This is a stain on our country.” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., declared, “They are trying to bring us back to slavery days and worse than that....”.....“Human beings should not be treated that way,” Vice President Kamala Harris said of the migrants in an interview with The View.... “It also invoked images of some of the worst moments of our history, where that kind of behavior has been used against the Indigenous people of our country. It has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.” ...
The photographer there, Paul Ratje, attested to the fact that the horse patrol did not whip anyone....Border Patrol agents, like other law enforcement officers, have rules of engagement and existing Customs and Border Protection policy on use of force, which were followed in the video...The only people who did anything wrong were the migrants, who entered the county illegally, which is a crime. They refused verbal commands from a federal officer. That’s also a crime.
Mayorkas said he hoped the investigation would be completed in days, not weeks. It’s been six months. In fact, Department of Homeland Security staff say the investigation has been done for months....Congress needs to demand the release of the report....The findings of the investigation should be released in the same way that these men were publicly slurred; namely, at a White House briefing....These agents and their families deserve that....
Tom Homan Former Acting ICE Director Mar 25th, 2022
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/biden-owes-border-patrol-belated-apology-over-phony-charges-whipping
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/27/biden-administration-maligns-border-patrol/
Direct Headline: Biden Administration Maligns Border Patrol
The El Paso Times reported that a Border patrol agent “swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio after buying food and water in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.”...The El Paso Times later corrected the story and said, “Our reporting team witnessed at least one agent on horseback swing his reins like a whip.”...But the photographer who took the viral pictures, Paul Ratje, said that he witnessed no whipping at all, and only noted that the Border Patrol agents were simply trying to apprehend the illegal migrants who were attempting to get around the horses...“I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”...So there were no whips, and the firsthand account by the photographer said that no “whipping” with the reins took place.
Jarrett Stepman September 27, 2021
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/27/biden-administration-maligns-border-patrol/
TWEET: Townhall.com xx@xxtownhallcom xx@xxPressSec
...says that the distinction between whipping immigrants and using horse reins does not change the circumstances regarding the investigation and disciplining of border patrol agents. "Our reaction to the photos has not changed."
11:37 AM · Sep 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1442559104103247874
TWEET: Stephen L. Miller xx@xxredsteeze
They didn't see it because it didn't happen. This is Axios still trying to hedge between what happened and their base audience.
(Quote Tweet) Axios xx@xxaxios Sep 26, 2021
We deleted a previous tweet that referred to Border Patrol agents as whipping at Haitian migrants. The story has been updated to include comments from some journalists on the border who did not see whipping occur.
3:06 PM · Sep 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1442249280056479744
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So this is an extremely complex political situation for the current Biden Administration. It's an example of a failed media optics "crisis management" decision that simply forwarded the problem to a different time but magnified the amount of potential damage inflicted.
In late 2021, the Biden Administration could not control the media coverage, despite the majority of the activist complicit left leaning MSM and Big Social Media, shading away from the flood of illegal immigrants crossing into the US. So they fabricated a "whipping" story that was not sustainable and could not close off the negative media optics and make it disappear long term.
If Biden and/or Psaki apologizes to the US Border Patrol and these agents, it opens up a pathway for multiple toxic media narratives to let loose before the Mid Terms ( which is projected to already be a full on massacre for Team Blue anyway) and to pre-stage before the 2024 general cycle.
- How many criminals and negative elements are crossing over undetected into major US cities where there is already major concerns/problems with rising crime/lawlessness?
- Why were so many of these illegals allowed to cross over unvaccinated? You can have two Executive Orders that mandate vaccinations, despite clearly not being able to survive long term legal scrutiny, against actual tax paying citizens, raising questions about medical privacy and personal medical choice/freedom, but not against people breaking the law and are not citizens?
- How many, as The Five and Peter Doocy discuss, are going to be those on actual Terror Watch Lists? That's now a matter of overall national security.
- Where are these illegals going to go and how much will it cost taxpayers to support them? ( Bracketed against inflation and the rising cost of living and the general uncertainty with the fallout of the entire pandemic in play)
- Is this a structured strategy against Red Strongholds such as Texas on the Southern Border, where the total damage inflicted on their school systems, social services and emergency services has an actual direct political gain for the current Democratic Party up and down the ticket?
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Now what about if Biden doesn't apologize?
- Politically, the current Democratic Party could lose the Law Enforcement vote en masse ( add in Defund The Police, left leaning DAs allowing "bail reform" to turn many cities into cesspools of crime and lawlessness that threaten innocent tax paying citizens to create an exponential effect and consider the massive number of veteran police officers resigning all across America) that could be punishing down the ticket for multiple future election cycles and raise deep questions about losing the "legacy vote" from not just law enforcement, but all associated pathways including all other emergency services like firefighters, paramedics, etc, etc
- There is a natural consistent cross section between law enforcement and the military communities. When you add in the Afghanistan disaster and that many military families are seeing the full brunt of this Bidenflation at the gas pump and at the grocery stores and watching their kids be locked out of schools, do the establishment Democrats risk losing the legacy military vote as well?
- What is the push/pull with working class minority voters with entire Border Crisis as a backdrop to this scandal? Especially the Hispanic/Latino community? Again risking long term legacy votes that could span generations in countless future election cycles.
Yes, there is a dedicated Biden thread, but this is more than just one story and one scandal, it's a story and scandal that has the potential, as Dana Perino points out, to simply not go away and become a runaway narrative that creates open Lose/Lose/Lose/Lose for Team Blue. It becomes a media optics CRITICAL JUNCTURE that naturally dovetails into major voting blocks as risk for the current Democratic Party should the existing media narrative trajectory continues to spin out of control.
I have some other thoughts on this complex matter, but I'll leave it here for a while for others to discuss.
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if she and President Joe Biden will apologize for slamming border patrol agents now that they will not be criminally charged after being accused of 'whipping' migrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALHpqPYeGac
VIDEO: 'The Five' debate if Biden should apologize to border agents Apr 18, 2022
'The Five' reacts to Biden refusing to apologize to border agents for 'whipping' smear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-n1lkODNkE
Direct Headline: Biden Owes Border Patrol Belated Apology Over Phony Charges of “Whipping” Illegal Aliens
...We have now passed the six-month mark since the (Biden) administration called for an investigation of (the US Border Patrol and it's ) horse patrol agents engaging with Haitian migrants illegally entering the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas (Circa September 2021). The administration still (has not) released the completed investigation report.... clearly making up career-ending, false accusations about the agents to change the narrative away from shocking daily videos of 15,000 illegal aliens amassing under the International Bridge in Del Rio...For a week in September, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin published daily drone videos of thousands of illegal aliens gathering under the Del Rio International Bridge. The mainstream media were nowhere to be found....The Biden administration tried to quash the videos with a made-up Federal Aviation Administration drone ban. When Melugin continued posting videos taken from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter, the Biden administration removed the drone ban and made up a new story: Border Patrol agents on horseback were whipping Haitian migrants....
Suddenly, just about every news network reported that the men serving in the horse patrol were committing unprovoked assaults on Haitian migrants, violating their civil rights....The Department of Homeland Security immediately suspended use of the horse patrols. The agents were placed on administrative leave. They were rapidly labeled “guilty until proven innocent,” (in the Court Of Public Opinion) and six months later, the administration still won’t declare the agents innocent.... President Joe Biden said....“It’s outrageous, I promise you, those people will pay … [T]here is [an] investigation underway now, and there will be consequences,”...Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas quickly piled on, saying the images of agents in Del Rio turning back Haitian migrants were “horrifying (and) do not reflect who we are"....(and added that the images) “painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”...Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., accused the agents of committing human rights abuses. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also denounced the Border Patrol, tweeting: “This is a stain on our country.” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., declared, “They are trying to bring us back to slavery days and worse than that....”.....“Human beings should not be treated that way,” Vice President Kamala Harris said of the migrants in an interview with The View.... “It also invoked images of some of the worst moments of our history, where that kind of behavior has been used against the Indigenous people of our country. It has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.” ...
The photographer there, Paul Ratje, attested to the fact that the horse patrol did not whip anyone....Border Patrol agents, like other law enforcement officers, have rules of engagement and existing Customs and Border Protection policy on use of force, which were followed in the video...The only people who did anything wrong were the migrants, who entered the county illegally, which is a crime. They refused verbal commands from a federal officer. That’s also a crime.
Mayorkas said he hoped the investigation would be completed in days, not weeks. It’s been six months. In fact, Department of Homeland Security staff say the investigation has been done for months....Congress needs to demand the release of the report....The findings of the investigation should be released in the same way that these men were publicly slurred; namely, at a White House briefing....These agents and their families deserve that....
Tom Homan Former Acting ICE Director Mar 25th, 2022
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/biden-owes-border-patrol-belated-apology-over-phony-charges-whipping
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/27/biden-administration-maligns-border-patrol/
Direct Headline: Biden Administration Maligns Border Patrol
The El Paso Times reported that a Border patrol agent “swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio after buying food and water in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.”...The El Paso Times later corrected the story and said, “Our reporting team witnessed at least one agent on horseback swing his reins like a whip.”...But the photographer who took the viral pictures, Paul Ratje, said that he witnessed no whipping at all, and only noted that the Border Patrol agents were simply trying to apprehend the illegal migrants who were attempting to get around the horses...“I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”...So there were no whips, and the firsthand account by the photographer said that no “whipping” with the reins took place.
Jarrett Stepman September 27, 2021
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/27/biden-administration-maligns-border-patrol/
TWEET: Townhall.com xx@xxtownhallcom xx@xxPressSec
...says that the distinction between whipping immigrants and using horse reins does not change the circumstances regarding the investigation and disciplining of border patrol agents. "Our reaction to the photos has not changed."
11:37 AM · Sep 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1442559104103247874
TWEET: Stephen L. Miller xx@xxredsteeze
They didn't see it because it didn't happen. This is Axios still trying to hedge between what happened and their base audience.
(Quote Tweet) Axios xx@xxaxios Sep 26, 2021
We deleted a previous tweet that referred to Border Patrol agents as whipping at Haitian migrants. The story has been updated to include comments from some journalists on the border who did not see whipping occur.
3:06 PM · Sep 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1442249280056479744
*******
So this is an extremely complex political situation for the current Biden Administration. It's an example of a failed media optics "crisis management" decision that simply forwarded the problem to a different time but magnified the amount of potential damage inflicted.
In late 2021, the Biden Administration could not control the media coverage, despite the majority of the activist complicit left leaning MSM and Big Social Media, shading away from the flood of illegal immigrants crossing into the US. So they fabricated a "whipping" story that was not sustainable and could not close off the negative media optics and make it disappear long term.
If Biden and/or Psaki apologizes to the US Border Patrol and these agents, it opens up a pathway for multiple toxic media narratives to let loose before the Mid Terms ( which is projected to already be a full on massacre for Team Blue anyway) and to pre-stage before the 2024 general cycle.
- How many criminals and negative elements are crossing over undetected into major US cities where there is already major concerns/problems with rising crime/lawlessness?
- Why were so many of these illegals allowed to cross over unvaccinated? You can have two Executive Orders that mandate vaccinations, despite clearly not being able to survive long term legal scrutiny, against actual tax paying citizens, raising questions about medical privacy and personal medical choice/freedom, but not against people breaking the law and are not citizens?
- How many, as The Five and Peter Doocy discuss, are going to be those on actual Terror Watch Lists? That's now a matter of overall national security.
- Where are these illegals going to go and how much will it cost taxpayers to support them? ( Bracketed against inflation and the rising cost of living and the general uncertainty with the fallout of the entire pandemic in play)
- Is this a structured strategy against Red Strongholds such as Texas on the Southern Border, where the total damage inflicted on their school systems, social services and emergency services has an actual direct political gain for the current Democratic Party up and down the ticket?
*********
Now what about if Biden doesn't apologize?
- Politically, the current Democratic Party could lose the Law Enforcement vote en masse ( add in Defund The Police, left leaning DAs allowing "bail reform" to turn many cities into cesspools of crime and lawlessness that threaten innocent tax paying citizens to create an exponential effect and consider the massive number of veteran police officers resigning all across America) that could be punishing down the ticket for multiple future election cycles and raise deep questions about losing the "legacy vote" from not just law enforcement, but all associated pathways including all other emergency services like firefighters, paramedics, etc, etc
- There is a natural consistent cross section between law enforcement and the military communities. When you add in the Afghanistan disaster and that many military families are seeing the full brunt of this Bidenflation at the gas pump and at the grocery stores and watching their kids be locked out of schools, do the establishment Democrats risk losing the legacy military vote as well?
- What is the push/pull with working class minority voters with entire Border Crisis as a backdrop to this scandal? Especially the Hispanic/Latino community? Again risking long term legacy votes that could span generations in countless future election cycles.
Yes, there is a dedicated Biden thread, but this is more than just one story and one scandal, it's a story and scandal that has the potential, as Dana Perino points out, to simply not go away and become a runaway narrative that creates open Lose/Lose/Lose/Lose for Team Blue. It becomes a media optics CRITICAL JUNCTURE that naturally dovetails into major voting blocks as risk for the current Democratic Party should the existing media narrative trajectory continues to spin out of control.
I have some other thoughts on this complex matter, but I'll leave it here for a while for others to discuss.
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