Imagine a conversation with a coworker. You tell your coworker about your divorce, and the problems of hashing out custody of your child in family court. You relate that the court gave you and your spouse each 50 percent custody. Your ex husband gets the kids two weeks out of the month, and you relate that you dropped the kids off with him after the hearing for his two weeks.
Now imagine that friend said to you, “Why did the court allow your husband to kidnap the children? Why did they cooperate in kidnapping?”
You don’t understand, and ask for clarification from your coworker. She just repeats that the court “facilitated kidnapping,” even though you’re trying to explain that your ex is not kidnapping. He’s legally entitled to two weeks of custody per month, and that means the kids will be at his house, not yours, for those two weeks. It’s all above board, you say, and no kidnapping is happening. Both you and your ex are satisfied with the custody arrangement, it’s all legal, and there’s no conflict.
“But the court helped your ex-husband kidnap your kids!” your co-worker insists.
At this point, you’re looking for the nearest exit because there is clearly no talking to your coworker. She appears to be having a mental health episode.
All that sounds strange and unbelievable, right? It’s happening in Congress right now as Democrats level an accusation at the Trump administration so bizarre it’s impossible to figure out what they’re actually thinking. The latest claim is that the Trump administration and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are “deporting children” who are “U.S. citizens.”
The media is in on the lie, too, with headlines at CNN, the Washington Post, and others, falsely implying that the U.S. is deporting citizen children.
Watch it happen on camera as House Rep. Veronica Escobar, Democrat from Texas, grills Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the allegedly “deported” children.
You can tell what she’s doing just from the intonation in her voice regardless of what she’s saying. Escobar speaks in that affected leftist cadence that draws out the ends of words and makes them sound like questions when they’re statements. It’s a linguistic “uniform” that’s diagnostic of leftist politics.
Escobar claims the U.S. is “deporting” children who are U.S. citizens. That’s false. The U.S. has not “deported” any children. It has deported some illegal alien adults who have children, and those parents decided, as is their right, to take their children with them when they leave the U.S.
Escobar seems to know she’s lying, and seems to be doing it deliberately. As Noem attempts to calmly correct Escobar’s misstatements, Escobar loses her composure and jumps on her with a Maxine Waters classic, “reclaiming my time.”
X users immediately picked up on Escobar’s dishonesty and condescension.
