Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) checked Fox News’ Will Cain on Monday after the host revealed that he was unfamiliar with a clip of President Donald Trump sharing his hopes to ship U.S. residents to prisons in El Salvador.
“Donald Trump’s made a press release about eager to deport Americans? Do you’ve that in entrance of you?” Cain requested.
“I’ve not seen that assertion. Are you able to please quote the place that comes from – that he want to deport Americans?”
Frost — the primary Era Z congressman — famous that Trump made the remarks in the Oval Office. The president was caught on digicam earlier this month telling Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele that “homegrowns are subsequent.”
Cain, shaking his head in disapproval, replied, “Do you’ve something moreover your phrase on that? I’ve not seen — I’ve not seen that so, past your phrase, do you’ve the supply of that?”
Frost hit again, “There’s a clip on-line. I encourage folks to simply Google ‘Donald Trump homegrown,’ ‘deporting homegrown criminals.’ It was one thing he mentioned within the Oval Workplace.”
Cain, who famous that his workers was on the lookout for the clip and pushed the interview forward, performed a different video of Trump later in this system the place he claimed he’d like to incorporate “homegrown criminals” in his deportations.
“After years of ‘very positive folks,’ amongst different hoaxes, I’m suspicious of any Democrat quoting President Trump in full context,” Cain careworn.
“And I make no apologies, none, on not with the ability to know or recall that particular clip as a result of it doesn’t reinforce my fever dream Handmaid’s Story imaginative and prescient of America.”
Frost and three different Democratic lawmakers who arrived in El Salvador on Monday to push the Trump administration to fall in keeping with a Supreme Courtroom order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father of three imprisoned in a brutal Salvadoran jail.
Frost justified his go to on Fox Information by noting that “each particular person” in America deserves due course of earlier than pointing to Trump’s “homegrowns” remark.
He added that he’s obtained “a whole lot” of calls and messages from constituents together with immigrants who “see themselves” within the case of Abrego Garcia, who lived within the U.S. for roughly 14 years earlier than his deportation.
“They’re saying, ‘Congressman, do what now you can as a result of it’s him right now and it may be one in all us tomorrow,’” Frost mentioned.
