Author: William Cummings / Source: USA TODAY
USA TODAY
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s tweets blaming Democrats for the recent deaths of migrant children in U.S. custody and accused Democrats of using the dead children as “political pawns.”
“Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally,” Trump tweeted Saturday after an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died early Christmas Day.
He was the second immigrant child in detention to die this month.Conway acknowledged that “any death of a child, any death of anyone, is an utter tragedy,” during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” But she initially deflected questions about Trump’s tweets and instead focused on the divide over funds for border security that has led to a partial government shutdown, now in its ninth day.
Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
“I think the president’s point is an important one, which is that he has stayed in Washington to negotiate border security,” Conway said when CNN host Dana Bash asked if she defended Trump’s tweets about the children – which did not mention the fact he stayed in Washington.
Conway was instead referring to a
CNN’s Bash told Conway that while she and other White House aides had expressed “empathy” for the children’s deaths, “the president hasn’t.”
“The only thing he has said is something that is very political and, frankly, misleading, with regard to Democrats being culpable for…
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