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Here’s Rick Santorum Defending the Trump Administration Losing 1500 Kids Possibly to Human Traffickers

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Rick Santorum is now defending the Trump administration for having lost nearly 1500 migrant children, and claiming that just because the federal government has no idea where they are and cannot contact them, they are not lost. According to The New York Times, it’s possible these children “could end up in the hands of human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives.”

Santorum has built his entire career – first as a staunch conservative Republican U.S. Senator, then as the head of a Christian film company, and a far right wing “patriot” PAC, and now as a paid political pundit – posing as a “pro-life” “family values” evangelical Christian conservative.

“We lose people all the time,” Santorum claimed.

“What happens is these children come into detention,” Santorum said Sunday morning on CNN (video below). He was attempting to eloquently frame the fact that the Trump administration has created and enacted its own policy of literally ripping migrant children from their undocumented parents arms, housing them in facilities separate from their parents – whose only “crime” is wanting a life for their families away from drug gangs, violence, rape, and murder that has sadly overtaken parts of Central America and Mexico.

“There is a vetting process of who the children are assigned to,” Santorum,  insisted, despite reports of some children having been released into the care of sex traffickers.

“It’s not just 1,400 children it’s a much larger group of kids.” he continued. The number is actually 1475 children, according to Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen. “And they are assigned to sponsors in this country who go through a process to be able to qualify to be sponsors.”

The former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania went on to tell the CNN audience that the 1475 children are not “lost,” they’re merely “off the radar” because their foster parents “haven’t checked in.”

These are young children and infants as young as 53 weeks old, children who are not theirs and who have every right to expect to be returned to their parents.

“So this isn’t what we’ve lost these kids. No, they were placed in vetted homes and for some reason or another these parents are not communicating –” he continued before being cut off.

“If they are not lost, where are they? Where are they if they’re not lost?” fellow CNN contributor Patti Solis Doyle asked.

Santorum went on to claim “the idea that they’re ‘lost’ I think is an over estimate — is hyperbole to try to create an issue where I don’t really think there is one, other than the fact that the bureaucracy, surprise, surprise, doesn’t work very well.”

Right now there are 1475 young children who may never see their parents again, because the Trump administration has ripped them away from their parents’ arms and then lost them. Rick Santorum is defending this.

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GOP EXTREMISM

Insurrection ‘Truther’ Marjorie Taylor Greene: FBI Was ‘Involved in Organizing and Carrying Out the Capitol Riot’

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is attacking the Federal Bureau of Investigation, falsely claiming its “operatives…were involved in organizing and carrying out the Jan 6th Capitol riot.”

Like her extremist friends on the far right Greene has become an “insurrection truther,”  like the 9/11 truthers who insist the attack by bin Laden was actually an “inside job” by the U.S. government, which is false.

“We need names and answers about the FBI operatives, who were involved in organizing and carrying out the Jan 6th Capitol riot,” Greene tweeted Wednesday. “First they had a ‘back up plan’ to stop Trump in Russia Collusion witch hunt, now we are finding out they were deeply involved in Jan 6th. Deep State.”

None of her claims are true. She appears to be basing her accusation on a Tuesday night Fox News segment by white supremacist host Tucker Carlson.

She attached a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is under DOJ investigation and clearly has an ax to grind against the Dept. of Justice and FBI.

In the clip (below) former FBI Assistant Director For Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi says the Bureau may need to arrest sitting members of Congress for domestic terrorism, a reasonable response if any took any part in the January 6 insurrection to overturn the election in a violent and deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, also known as a “coup.”

Carlson went ballistic, twisting Figliuzzi’s words, and then – based on zero evidence, said, “How about rounding up the FBI operatives who rioted on January 6.”

 

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Old-School Republican on GOP: ‘A Complete Break from Reality’ Concerning Pelosi

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President-elect Donald J. Trump and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi smile for a photo during the 58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. More than 5,000 military members from across all branches of the armed forces of the United States, including reserve and National Guard components, provided ceremonial support and Defense Support of Civil Authorities during the inaugural period. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

Kurt Bardella, a former press secretary for Republican Olympia Snowe, told MSNBC on Friday that when it came to Nancy Pelosi, the Republican Party had had “a complete break from reality.”

“The GOP talking point this morning is that Nancy Pelosi is peacocking for her colleagues, blocking negotiations to look strong, shore up support for her speakership,” said Ayman Mohyeldin, noting that Republicans have historically strongly disliked the incoming House Speaker. “Is that a smart strategic move to say that the left, or the Democrats have a left wing within their party that is making Nancy Pelosi take this hardened position?”

“They can try to say that, but it’s a complete break from what’s actually happening in reality, and I just don’t think anybody’s going to buy that anyway,” replied Bardella. “Nancy Pelosi’s position since the election has been strong. There is not a real severe legitimate challenger to her speakership.”

He added that the Republicans were deluding themselves about her position on the budget as well.

“The reality is that something that the Republicans can not escape from: they had a deal. The Senate passed it unanimously,” he pointed out. “This is all on the House Republicans.” He slammed Speaker Paul Ryan by name for refusing to bring the Senate bill to the floor, and said the party’s refusal to work with Pelosi put the president in an even more precarious position.

“When the Democrats take back the majority in six days, they’re going to put up a bill, they’re going to pass it, and once again Donald Trump is going to be in a position wheres he’s going have to veto a bill that could end the shutdown. He’ll own it twice,” Bardella said, scoffing at his own party. “It’s not going to work. the American people are not going to buy that it is some how all Nancy Pelosi’s fight, because the reality is this started before she was speaker.

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Exposed: New GOP Nominee Ron DeSantis Manages Hate-Filled Facebook Group That Promotes Racism: Report

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Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is an administrator of a Facebook group that promotes racist and “deep state” conspiracy theories.

American Ledger — a corruption watchdog news site — reported Wednesday that DeSantis is one of 52 administrators and moderators for the “Tea Party” Facebook group that is also co-run by failed Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward.

The GOP candidate’s participation in the large administrator pool was first revealed on Tuesday by Media Matters extremism researcher Natalie Martinez, who posted screenshots of a string of DeSantis campaign posts in the group. She later learned that another administrator named the candidate as one of the group’s admins.

The “Tea Party” group has nearly 95,000 members, the Ledger reported. In the past, group members have posted about the “ghetto scum” that is Black Lives Matter and made fun of the Parkland massacre survivors.

“One member believed the violent far-right rally of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 was a hoax,” the report noted, “writing in a post liked by 1,600 users that the rally was ‘orchestrated by the left’ to ‘destroy America.’”

Ward and her husband Michael were revealed to be administrators of the group in early July by Media Matters. Michael Ward was known to share posts from the candidate’s (verified) Facebook page and once called John McCain a “strong supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

After winning the GOP gubernatorial primary a day prior, DeSantis made headlines Wednesday after saying people who voted for his Democratic opponent — Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum — would “monkey up” the state.

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