Posted on 10/31/2018 5:34:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Harry Reid on Wednesday said Donald Trump is "profoundly wrong" after the president quoted his 1993 position on revoking birthright citizenship in perhaps his harshest criticism of the president since leaving office...
"... I(Harry) made a mistake" by proposing a bill to remove birthright citizenship from immigrants who entered the country illegally. In a speech on the Senate floor 25 years ago, Reid said "no sane country" would offer a "reward for being an illegal immigrant."
Referring to that speech, Trump said Reid was correct "before he and the Democrats went insane and started with the Open Borders (which brings massive Crime) 'stuff.'"
..."After I proposed that awful bill, my wife Landra immediately sat me down and said, ‘Harry, what are you doing, don’t you know that my father is an immigrant?’ She set me straight. And in my 36 years in Washington, there is no more valuable lesson I learned than the strength and power of immigrants and no issue I worked harder on than fixing our broken immigration system," said Reid, a former Senate majority and minority leader. "Immigrants are the lifeblood of our nation. They are our power and our strength. This president wants to destroy not build, to stoke hatred instead of unify."
While Reid has repeatedly admitted he changed his position on immigration and called it the "biggest mistake" of his career for years, he did reiterate his support for his bill a year later in 1994 in a Los Angles Times op-ed, in which he wrote that "our doors should remain open, but only wide enough to admit those to whom we can realistically offer opportunity and security."
Shortly after Reid's response on Wednesday went public, Trump tweeted a link to the video of Reid's 1993 remarks and attacked the retired senator, who has been battling cancer.
By BURGESS EVERETT 10/31/2018 12:55 PM EDT Updated 10/31/2018 04:00 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Harry Reid on Wednesday said Donald Trump is "profoundly wrong" after the president quoted his 1993 position on revoking birthright citizenship in perhaps his harshest criticism of the president since leaving office.
The retired Nevada Democratic senator said in a statement that "around the time Donald Trump was gobbling up tax-free inheritance money from his wealthy father and driving several companies into bankruptcy, I made a mistake" by proposing a bill to remove birthright citizenship from immigrants who entered the country illegally. In a speech on the Senate floor 25 years ago, Reid said "no sane country" would offer a "reward for being an illegal immigrant."
Referring to that speech, Trump said Reid was correct "before he and the Democrats went insane and started with the Open Borders (which brings massive Crime) 'stuff.'" And after fighting with Trump all through his election campaign, Reid fired back on Wednesday that Trump "can tweet whatever he wants while he sits around watching TV, but he is profoundly wrong.”
"After I proposed that awful bill, my wife Landra immediately sat me down and said, ‘Harry, what are you doing, don’t you know that my father is an immigrant?’ She set me straight. And in my 36 years in Washington, there is no more valuable lesson I learned than the strength and power of immigrants and no issue I worked harder on than fixing our broken immigration system," said Reid, a former Senate majority and minority leader. "Immigrants are the lifeblood of our nation. They are our power and our strength. This president wants to destroy not build, to stoke hatred instead of unify."
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While Reid has repeatedly admitted he changed his position on immigration and called it the "biggest mistake" of his career for years, he did reiterate his support for his bill a year later in 1994 in a Los Angles Times op-ed, in which he wrote that "our doors should remain open, but only wide enough to admit those to whom we can realistically offer opportunity and security."
Shortly after Reid's response on Wednesday went public, Trump tweeted a link to the video of Reid's 1993 remarks and attacked the retired senator, who has been battling cancer. ADVERTISING
"Harry Reid, when he was sane, agreed with us on Birthright Citizenship!" Trump said...
How queer that Pollutico’s headline makes no comment on the factual basis of Trump’s tweet or what Reid himself had said.
Additionally, Politico acknowledges that Harry Reid lied in his remarks saying that he immediately changed his stance except he didn’t and followed it with an op-ed piece in 1994.
#FakeNews
#OrwellianNightmare
Socialists do not want anyone else to determine whether a foreigner is legally here or not. Its why they refuse to make the distinction, which is a moral andlegally proper one to make.
Stalinists HATE it when you bring up things they’ve said in the past.
Stalinists lie. Always
Old One-eye rising from the grave on Halloween. How appropriate.
Harry Reid is still alive. How about that? Seems like he used to be a political something or other.
Maybe he’s the mob connected government guy who dropped the dime on Whitey Bulger’s transfer < /sarc >.
Funny thing is, that murder shouldn’t be the end of that story. The hitmen who whacked him should be executed and the people in the prison system who tipped them off should serve federal time.
Hey Harry, got into any more brawls with exercise machines lately?
Right before DJT took off in Marine One today, he stopped to talk to the Fake News reporters. One of the reporters threw a loaded question about birthright citizenship for illegal alien anchor babies.
POTUS quipped, “Harry Reid was against illegals’ birthright citizenship before he went insane.”
LMAO, I love this POTUS!
RooRoobird20 wrote:
“Right before DJT took off in Marine One today, he stopped to talk to the Fake News reporters. One of the reporters threw a loaded question about birthright citizenship for illegal alien anchor babies.
POTUS quipped, “Harry Reid was against illegals’ birthright citizenship before he went insane.”
LMAO, I love this POTUS!”
I also love PDJT !!!
Ping to a good zinger quote by PDJT !
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3701735/posts?page=10#10
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“Additionally, Politico acknowledges that Harry Reid lied in his remarks “
Yes, which is pretty amazing for Pollutico.
Yet, it was so understated a casual partisan could miss it.
They also chose not state that his wife’s relative was not illegal, thus discrediting Reid’s logic.
It was a pretty stilted article yet the best one could expect from them.
Funny thing here, Harry Reid isn’t the only Democrat on record making such remarks about illegal immigration and birthright citizenship...
Barbara Jordan
Caesar Chavez
Barack Obama
BS, what Harry really meant was: After I and the other Dims realized that, without continued massive legal and illegal immigration from the Third World, we Dims had no prayer of being a viable national party, I realized what a mistake I'ed made proposing that awful bill.
Harry’s spinning a lie here because I’ve already heard it suggested that Republicans should take his original bill to the floor and name it after Harry.
The media hasn’t even wanted to discuss Harry’s previous quotes.
Donald Trump made it “news” even though talk radio has also been covering it.
Harry’s response has only dug the hole deeper because now people are getting a whiff of what he’d said straight from the jackass.
Is this the Hairy Reed who got beat up by a rubber band? That Hairy Reed?
9 months ago from an Austin NBC news broadcast
President Trump says he shares immigration views with Barbara Jordan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rkUvj-jsQc
and they did cover her 1995 remarks on immigration “properly regulated” “immigration is NOT A RIGHT”
Harry your a 2 faced anti American.
Yep, and in addition to Harry and those named in post #14, there’s also a Schumcky Shumer quote in the same vein. The Dims were playing to what they knew most of their supporters wanted until they realized they had to have massive Third World migration to the US to remain viable.
Now, if they were honest, they’d refer to their immigration policies as The Democrat Voter Recruitment Drive.
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