[ May 3, 2024 ]
You can’t make this stuff up (and might I add you never heard a peep about Obama’s detained migrant kids).
Bloomberg ad used Obama-era migrant detention footage to criticize Trump
An advertisement from Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg attacking Donald Trump includes footage of detained migrant children. This part of the ad is misleading; the video from the facility dates to 2014, when Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama was president.
The ad was tweeted by the candidate, posted on YouTube, and shared here and here on Facebook.
“America demanded change,” a narrator says at the start. “And change is what we got.”
Story continues below advertisementIt then shows a series of clips and images that illustrate hot-button issues including immigration, the border wall, gun violence, and Trump’s relationships with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
AFP used reverse image searches of screenshots of the ad to gather information about the material it contains.
Most of it is from Trump’s presidency, but a brief part of the immigration-related footage — showing children standing in a line, and lying on mattresses under foil blankets in an area surrounded by chain-link fence — appears in an Associated Press report from June 2014, more than two years before he took office.
A comparison of screenshots of footage from Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s ad released in 2020 (L) and a 2014 Associated Press report (R)The AP report says that the footage is from a facility along the Arizona-New Mexico border that held “at least a thousand kids” who crossed into the United States illegally without an accompanying adult.
A comparison of screenshots of footage from Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s ad released in 2020 (L) and a 2014 Associated Press report (R)Bloomberg’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment on the issue.
It is not the first time that images from the same detention facility have been used to criticize Trump administration policy, and the president himself took aim at Democrats over the issue on Twitter in 2018.
A screenshot taken on February 6, 2020Trump has made restrictive immigration policies a central plank of his presidency.
A Trump administration “zero tolerance” policy launched in 2018 saw thousands of children separated from their parents at the border before the government backed down amid a torrent of criticism.
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34 Comments
4 years ago
The moronic bloomberg is like all libturd dumocraps….STUPID as hell while they love their liars and criminals!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mini-mikey wasn’t even in the Iowa Caucus “race”. Does your husband know that you’re online again? Time to hide, little moj.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
No he wasn’t little moj. Why do you insist upon telling bald faced lies?
4 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
What is it about you left wing, radical, fascists that causes you to tell such bald faced lies .. and, when caught, rarely admit such? And, when you do … it’s simply a passing with some inane little ending like ” … still got some votes …”? You Nazi fascists are all alike.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I would like to congratulate you for finally writing an accurate post. I guess there’s a first time for everything.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Poor little moj. ALL of my comments are factual, accurately factual. Now, little one, did you check out the DOJ-FBI website on mass shootings. Or, did you even follow the link, to the NYT article, wherein they restated the FACT that around 80% of ALL mass shooters, in the United States of America, are of African descent? You left wing, racist, bigoted Nazi fascists are ALL alike. Who knows? I may actually run across a “comment” of yours that is not a bald faced lie. If that occurs, “I guess there’s a first time for everything.
Until then, I shall continue having a marvelous time laughing AT you.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I don’t have a subscription to NYT, so I couldn’t see that article, and you never posted the link for the DOJ-FBI site.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Poor little moj. You don’t need a subscription to read the article. NYT will allow so many perusals per month, without one. As for U.S. Department of Justice … try doj.gov and search around. You truly are SO much fun to laugh At.
4 years ago
Reply to
carpe diem 36
The ayrab/moslem name is “ahmed”. When the krauts aligned with moslems, pre-WWI, they couldn’t pronounce “ahmed” and it came out with a guttural “CH” sound, similar to that of coughing up a loogie. Highly unlikely that her husband’s name is “achmed”.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
…they must be paid to like him. The muslims put more illegal money in their election coffers than he does
4 years ago
Reply to
patd
Mike Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg News, is “fake news in the flesh”.
These ads illustrates that.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
Mike Bloomberg’s tweet in this article: “Trump said he was going to bring change to this country. He did”.
My response: “Mike Bloomberg said he was going change his party. He did.”
“again. and again. and again.”
4 years ago
4 years ago
They have obviously learned from their Muslim friends who often use or misuse photos and video footage to show ill treatment of ‘palestinians’
4 years ago
All propaganda as Hitler used anything to give him power.
We are repeating the days of Brown Shirts to Nazism.
Trump needs to paint the Democrats as Nazism.
Remove the party for freedoms
Media take over
Propaganda
Antifia, Get up movement as the Brown Shirts
anti-Semitism
Indoctrination of school children through the UN Sustainability
Only thing missing is one like Hitler
4 years ago
Bloomberg doesn’t need to get his facts right, He justs makes them up. Mayor Butthole is his proxy and he has enough loot to buy the nomination. The Sanders mob is going to be p****d and are going to burn Milwaukee down along with any credibility mini mike may have.
4 years ago
It is such fun watching these leftist idiots self implode.
4 years ago
That’s Demoncrats for ya, dirty rotten filthy rats, just like the ones that are infecting the Demoncrat run states and cities.
4 years ago
Such people have no honor, and cannot be trusted – EVER!
4 years ago
How much is Bloomberg paying Obama for endorsment?
4 years ago
That picture though ????
4 years ago
Wait ’till you see how many votes Bloomberg gets in New York.
4 years ago
“A Trump administration “zero tolerance” policy launched in 2018 saw thousands of children separated from their parents at the border before the government backed down amid a torrent of criticism.” NO! HHS reported that 83 % of the children apprehended were without parents. Of the 17% left , it was found that over half of them were accompanied by adults, who were not their parents. This is Weaponized Immigration, being used to bring our country down.
4 years ago
What a pathetic old fart. He is proof that money can’t make you happy. He’s bent out of shape because Trump is popular and doing a great job as President. Mini Mike and Mitt should get together, they have a lot in common!
4 years ago
Trump to Mike: As one billionaire to another, how’s the weather down there?
4 years ago
doomberg the cop hater
4 years ago
Is he the general on “time Tunnel? 
