Dems gaslighting on Kamala’s ‘border czar’ position will not save her
Clear up on aisle “Kamala.”
As The Submit reported Wednesday, federal brokers in El Paso, Texas have been instructed to show the town right into a Potemkin village for the veep’s go to in 2021, transferring migrants from crowded holding amenities to resorts and braiding the hair of some who remained to present the impression (undoubtedly for the cameras) that every thing was beneath management.
And now, making an attempt to prop up Harris now that she’s changing President Biden because the Democratic nominee, the administration and compliant media are desperately making an attempt to take away the rotten, stinking albatross of the migrant disaster from her neck by claiming she was by no means truly “the Border Czar.”
By no means thoughts that everybody was calling her that three years in the past.
Nor that Kamala has been on the report for a decade as considering unlawful migrants shouldn’t be handled as criminals, nor truly turned away.
On Tuesday, Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson mentioned: “She just isn’t the border czar,” however solely “assumed the position that Vice President Biden had in the course of the Obama administration, which is diplomacy with Central America.”
Axios and different retailers fell proper in line, reporting that “she by no means truly had” the title and blaming the confusion, partly, on “early media misfires.”
When the entire web responded by citing Axios items that had described her as precisely that, the outlet went again and “corrected” these items.
Shameless, supreme gaslighting.
Look: No US official will get a job title with “czar” in it, however the utilization is acquainted.
And Biden put her in cost of addressing migration from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in March 2021, particularly however not-necessarily solely tasked with addressing “root causes.”
And Harris plainly thought her duties went additional: Why else did she make her notorious “don’t come” speech to a crowd of Guatemalans in June 2021?
(Some 8 million extra migrants got here anyway, probably recognizing her warning because the meaningless politically posturing that it was.)
She additionally launched a technique for “addressing the foundation causes of migration from Central America” a month later.
It’s additionally why she made that journey to El Paso that summer season, full with the clean-up job, too: Even Lester Holt had embarrassed her about not going.
After all, she didn’t do a lot after that, nor might she: Biden was dedicated to opening the border and mendacity about it, Homeland Safety chief Alejandro Mayorkas had the frontline obligation to see it occurred.
And, actually, “fixing” the Southern Triangle nations is an not possible activity (nation-building, actually) unrelated to truly stopping the tide.
Group Biden-Harris solely talked about it as a special type of gaslighting, pretending they really have been doing one thing.
Anyway, inside the yr most unlawful migrants weren’t coming from there, however from just about the entire planet — and no one bothered pretending Kamala would handle the “root causes” of Venezuela, Haiti, China, Tajikistan and many others.
So Kamala all however gave up on doing something, and the Washington press corps ignored it, simply because the nationwide media tried to bury the whole border nightmare: Overlaying it was dangerous for Democrats, in spite of everything.
Sure, it’s very imply of the Trump-Vance marketing campaign to level to the Border Czar debacle as proof that Harris is a joke, however the truth is that she performed together with that charade, coverups and all — simply as she performed together with the charade round Biden’s apparent psychological decline.
She’ll by no means admit to taking part in together with all of the lies, however it’s past unhappy that the one factor Democrats can suppose to do now could be attempt to cowl them up with extra lies.
