CNN, AP Forced to Correct Stories Saying Trump Called Immigrants 'Animals,' Clarify He Meant MS-13
CNN and the Associated Press were both forced to clarify or delete tweets and stories Thursday that portrayed President Trump’s remarks during a meeting Wednesday as referring to illegal immigrants generally rather than violent MS-13 gang members.
President Trump said “these aren’t people, these are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before,” Wednesday in response to remarks about MS-13.
After reporting on these remarks minus this context that they were about MS-13, AP and CNN clarified the context Thursday.
The New York Times has yet to issue any sort of correction or clarification despite tweeting out a story that the remarks were about illegal immigrants, not just MS-13. President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., called them out Thursday.
“The president was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who enter our country illegally,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Thursday.
“If liberals and the media want to defend MS-13 they are welcome to,” she added.
Several Democratic lawmakers did not update tweets expressing outrage over Trump's remarks despite the clarification that they were about MS-13.
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