We know Maggie Haberman works for the New York Times, but come on now. What would possess her to ask this question?
Seriously asking – what possible context is there that makes Trump's "they're animals" comment from yesterday more nuanced?
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 17, 2018
Maggie. Maggie.
RIP your mentions
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) May 17, 2018
She kinda deserves it, to be honest.
Any run-of-the-mill idiot can accidentally step on a rake, it takes a special kind of idiot to step on the same rake over and over and over againhttps://t.co/Be7t9S9pNS
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 17, 2018
You are about to get scores of “possible contexts” that you will instantly reject.
Please don’t fake your sincerity- it’s tiresome— President Camacho (@BrawndoLabs) May 17, 2018
Are you serious right now
— Jeremy “don’t learn to code” Frankel (@FrankelJeremy) May 17, 2018
Are you serious about asking a serious question? Did you not listen to the whole thing in context and not figure it out?
— silent echo (@SilentEchoSeven) May 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/tChrisHill/status/997205473244975104
He was referring specifically to members of MS-13, a criminal gang know for its ISIS-like viciousness. You know this!
— Harold (@Nikk1066) May 17, 2018
You seriously need a dose of reality. You're a reporter. You have access to file photos. Please look up the "work" of this gang & tell me they are not heinous animals.
— Muggsy1943 (@Muggsy1943) May 17, 2018
Stop, don’t be part of the problem. You know it referenced MA-13. Not nuanced at all.
— Jim T (@TrickyJRT) May 17, 2018
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When he's talking about gang members who use machetes to murder and dismember their victims, not to mention committing brutal beatings and rapes. Is "animal" too strong a term for that? As a liberal, I would say it is too kind.
— Hephaestus451 (@Hephaestus451) May 17, 2018
I am comfortable taking Trump to task on a variety of topics but he was inartfully–as usual–talking about them. MS-13 gang members do some remarkably despicable, heinous acts and deserve to be put away for life. Even better would be to make sure they never arrive.
— Adam Shubert (@adshubert) May 17, 2018
he was talking about a violent gang. not all immigrants. not even all illegal immigrants. How is that not relevant?
— Daniella Greenbaum Davis (@DGreenbaum) May 17, 2018
Geez Louise, Maggie. Do better.
Here you go https://t.co/Aw58aWXzYX
— Daniella Greenbaum Davis (@DGreenbaum) May 17, 2018
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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