Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Trump was talking about this country dumping all their criminals in the USA. He said:

    “He liked to say he did something with a social experiment. A criminal is a criminal as they generally say a criminal and we don’t have time to figure it out, but we’re not going to take criminals and we’re going to get rid of the criminals that we’ve been given by all these countries from all over the world.”

    Now if you want to give him the benefit of the doubt and interpret that “criminal is a criminal” line as something he is quoting from someone else, you go right ahead. I do not give him the benefit of the doubt though. Even if he is quoting someone else, he is not disputing the point. He appears to be accepting it as fact and his response is that he’s going to get rid of those criminals.

    /Apologies for deleting and then un-deleting, I hit enter too soon while transcribing and wanted to avoid confusion.

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      3 months ago

      Trump / Vance 2024: A criminal is a criminal as they generally say a criminal

      It’s kind of Gilbert and Sullivan-esque. G&S would have a field day with trump.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah that’s fair, I’m not giving him the benefit of the doubt so much as just how I heard it(based on his voice, he wasn’t talking normally- instead he sounded like he was quoting), but there’s definitely two possible ways to interpret it.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Even if he is quoting someone… he’s quoting them for the justification of getting rid of them.

        He clearly agrees with the statement.