DPCC Co-Chair Jeffries: President Trump has Zero Credibility, Zero Morality, Zero Integrity On Family Separation Policy
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy & Communications Committee (DPCC) and a member of the Judiciary Committee, appeared on CNN Tonight to discuss President Trump's zero-tolerance policy that separates children from their parents at the border. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video.
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"Well, there's so much to unpack there. But once again, Donald Trump is lying to the American people. This so-called zero-tolerance policy, which by the way, has zero credibility, zero morality, zero integrity, is a subsidiary of the Trump White House. It was created by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions. They cooked it up. Solely responsible for it, and Donald Trump can end it today.
"…[He is trying] to deflect the reality that it's his administration and his policy that has infant children being ripped away from the hands of vulnerable mothers and then being cast away in a manner that the parents have no idea where their children are. In a way that's doing psychological damage that could be long-standing to these individual children. In a way that is horrific and has shocked the conscience of the American people.
"This is an example of him again trying to fan the flames of hatred, which is something Donald Trump has done consistently since prior to him sneaking into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2016. We remember, in the 1970's it was the Trump Organization that was sued by the Nixon Justice Department for racial discrimination against Black and Latino housing applicants. It was Donald Trump, who led the lynch mob against the Central Park five – Black and Latino individuals who were wrongfully convicted, wrongfully accused, wrongfully charged for a crime they did not commit, and even after being exonerated by DNA evidence, Donald Trump continued to go after them. And of course, we know Don, it was Donald Trump who for five years perpetrated the racist lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States of America. This current tweet, this current rhetoric, this policy is just par for the course."