Trump is upset that some of his biggest fans are killing people — not because he doesn’t like them killing people, but he just doesn’t like it happening when he’s got other plans for the nation’s front pages and chyrons. That plan was to further demonize a ragtag band of about 3,000 poor Hondurans as riddled with terrorists, rapists and murderers. Even a dedicated liar like Trump will have a hard time pretending that immigrants cause crime when studies show the opposite is true: American-born citizens commit crimes at a significantly higher rate.
In addition to sending federal troops to the border, Trump is moving to end birthright citizenship, Constitution be damned. Lindsey Graham, Trump’s new favorite lapdog, said he will introduce legislation to that effect, since Trump’s “executive order” about it won’t override the 14th Amendment. Graham’s bill will never pass, but it will be useful to get all the GOP traitors on the record backing yet another fascist policy.
VP Mike Pence has taken the opportunity to remind us he’s a theocratic loon, appearing at somebody’s campaign rally with a “rabbi” who’s actually part of a tiny group of Jews for Jesus, which Josh Marshall points out is actually an attack on Judaism by those least Christian of Christians, the fundamentalism asshole choir.
Finally, Eugene Robinson joins the brigade of journalists pointing out that no, both sides don’t do it. Unfortunately, only journalists with opinion columns are free to say so.