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Joe Biden’s burger ban and Kamala Harris’s superheroes are nonetheless in all places on the GOP menu regardless of the 2 main stories unravelling below additional scrutiny.
Republican lawmakers had been fast to pounce this week on two bombshell claims; the White House was sending copies of the vice president’s book to child migrants whereas additionally planning to dramatically restrict Americans’ meat consumption.
The New York Post printed a front-page report that migrant kids obtained welcome kits containing Ms Harris’ 2019 book “Superheroes Are Everywhere”, but it surely was later up to date after a Washington Post truth verify revealed it was a single copy donated at a book drive.
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The author of the story, Laura Italiano, stop the Post over the piece, saying it was “an incorrect story I used to be ordered to write” and which she failed to push again on.
Tweets from key GOP figures seizing on the yarn to leverage their political message, from Lauren Boebert to Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan to Jody Hice, stay reside.
Why is the Biden regime utilizing taxpayer {dollars} to present unlawful immigrants getting into the U.S. with a replica of Kamala’s kids’s book?
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 26, 2021
WATCH → White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodges and says “I hear it is a good book” when requested if Kamala Harris is earning money off her book being handed out at border amenities.
Is Kamala Harris profiting off the border disaster?
Americans deserve to know. pic.twitter.com/TAdBs7IdM6
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) April 27, 2021
Vice President Harris refuses to go to the southern border.
But some migrant kids are given a replica of her book upon arrival to the USA.
Nothing to see right here!https://t.co/GUzpdvoqOn
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 26, 2021
.@VP Harris’s book is on the border, however she’s nowhere to be discovered. 🤔 https://t.co/cUtEbDRAbQ
— Rep. Jody Hice (@CongressmanHice) April 26, 2021
Tweets additionally stay scorching away on The Daily Mail’s report that the president’s plan to lower greenhouse emissions “may restrict” burgers to simply as soon as a month, with an infographic saying Americans might need to lower “90 per cent of pink meat out of weight-reduction plan” and eat solely 4lbs a yr.
Fox News issued a mea culpa on repeating the claims, with anchor John Roberts saying the “information was correct however a graphic and the script incorrectly implied that it was a part of Biden’s plan for coping with local weather change. That will not be the case.”
Donald Trump Jr, Marjorie Taylor Green and Texas governor Greg Abbott, nonetheless, are standing by their scorching takes.
The Hamburglar.
“No burgers for thee, however only for me.” pic.twitter.com/vXb4gCGsgW
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) April 25, 2021
I’m fairly certain I ate 4 kilos of pink meat yesterday. That’s going to be a tough NO from me. https://t.co/wvGC19cN6R
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 24, 2021
Not gonna occur in Texas! pic.twitter.com/zqYS9kH8CU
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 25, 2021
Joe Biden’s local weather plan consists of reducing 90% of pink meat from our diets by 2030. They need to restrict us to about 4 kilos a yr. Why doesn’t Joe keep out of my kitchen?
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 24, 2021
Politicians politicking is a long-running custom in Washington DC, with key Democrat figures additionally refusing to delete tweets about debunked stories leveraged in service of the culture war.
From transport secretary Pete Buttigieg to senators Kristen Gillibrand and Dianne Feinstein, the influential Democrats nonetheless have reside tweets claiming Donald Trump known as immigrants “animals” regardless of PolitiFact debunking the narrative, and the unique poster deleting the tweet and apologizing for not being correct, greater than two years in the past.
I’ve realized that Trump’s feedback had been in response to a particular query about MS-13 members and not about asylum seekers extra broadly. I’ve chosen to delete the tweet, however am copying it right here. My apologies for not being extra correct. pic.twitter.com/oDTdNvzSdq
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) April 8, 2019
You don’t refer to human beings as animals. You simply don’t.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) April 6, 2019
Racist language like this has led to violence all through the world’s historical past. No human being is an animal. We have to be higher than this.https://t.co/TQ0MhJFGtq
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) April 6, 2019
Immigrants are usually not “animals.” The president’s assertion was deeply offensive and racist. Immigrants are our household and pals and they make vital contributions to our nation.
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) May 17, 2018
