Posted on 07/11/2018 9:59:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
GOP strategist and CNN contributor Rick Wilson said Wednesday that Trump supporters "want anybody who’s darker than a latte deported" while arguing that some in the administration actually enjoy seeing migrant children being separated from their families.
The remarks come as the White House faces considerable criticism from lawmakers on the both sides of the aisle over the "zero tolerance" policy that separated children from their parents after crossing the U.S. border illegally, despite Trump signing an executive order on June 20 to end the practice. A federal judge said the administration needs to expedite the reunification process after it missed Tuesday's deadline for all separated children under the age of 5 to be back with their parents.
“The pictures of the cruelty of this administration are a very deliberate part of this,” Wilson, one the network's most outspoken Republican critics of Trump, told anchor Poppy Harlow during a panel discussion on “CNN Newsroom.”
“They’re a feature not a bug of the Trump administration’s policy. Nobody inside the Trump administration is unhappy with these things because they’re talking to their base, they’re only talking to their core supporters, and their core supporters want anyone who’s darker than a latte deported.”
“They don’t believe in the asylum process, they want to separate the families as a deterrence, a sort of theater of cruelty,” Wilson added. “[Trump aide] Stephen Miller and the guys in the white nationalist faction of the party are very happy about this. They love the whole optics of this cruel exercise.”
Democratic strategist Steve Trippi concurred with Wilson.
“They wanted their base to see this,” Wilson argued. “They had no intention to return these children to their families, ever, and now they have to, and that’s why they’re having so much trouble doing it.”
Wilson later defended his comments in a series of tweets.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw had scolded the administration this week after government lawyers indicated that U.S. officials would only be able to reunite 75 of 102 children under the age of 5 who are currently under HHS custody.
“These are firm deadlines; they are not aspirational goals,” Sabraw said. “I would like the process to continue as expeditiously as it has been with paramount focus on the children’s welfare.”
I don’t even want to look him up. A McCain team member, right?
Anyone surprised? The Dem operatives in the GOP are brazenly blowing their cover and showing their true colors.
CNN will renew his contract.
Anyone appearing on CNN is not a serious “GOP Strategist.”
And certainly not part of anything even connected to Trump.
Its like in WWII, how Tokyo Rose was an “American.”
Man, I never realised how dark Irish, canadians, and Russians who overstay their visas really were until this guy pointed it out.
D’nesh D’Souza and J’onn J’onnz can stay.
And this from a man who is a member of a political party that tells everyone it wants a color-blind society.
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I'll check in later.
that guy is an ass...
The “latte” comment from the mouth is like a window into an ignorant and bigoted mind
They just throw this crap out there and, BOOM! It’s true to the majority of miscreants of the opposition team. Kind of like justice Kennedy made a deal with PDJT about Kavanaugh. Must be true. Wrong!
Rick Wilson is a slimy dirtbag and has been attacking Trump and his voters since the primaries. He’s not a “Republican” Strategist, his a democrat mouth piece.
FOX has some obvious token house plants too.
Will someone please tell me what this “strategist” has ever won???
Trump brings that out.
Look at Mark Levin’s meltdown on this same illegal immigration issue. He will never regain the following he once had, and idiots who try to get people to swallow his crap now will be properly mocked and disparaged.
I, for one, encourage Rick Wilson and such keep talking ‘strategy’, or just simply talking.
And the enemedia keep giving these guys the exposure....
Notice how he attacked Trump “supporters”?
There should be a Class Action Suit Filed for his Slander.
I dare say this wanker has some skeletons in his closet that are close to tumbling out onto the dance floor. He sure yaps a lot.
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