OPINION:
Former President Donald Trump last week mentioned illegal immigrants from Haiti were eating cats, and Democrats went ballistic. ABC’s David Muir said he talked to Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue, who assured him that it wasn’t happening — as if that proves anything.
The blow-dried class loves to cite partial facts that don’t get to the part of the story that matters. In July, Mr. Rue said of the Haitian influx: “We must hold those accountable who have knowingly caused the rapid surge of immigrants within our community. Whether that is local business agencies or federal policies, the growth we have experienced is unsustainable.”
The real issue is the left has been converting rural American towns into Port-au-Prince. Mr. Trump’s cat anecdote captures the extreme disruption taking place across the country in a memorable way. Recorded 911 calls and locals testifying before the city council speak of isolated incidents of household pets and geese being turned into lunch throughout the area.
As Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost observed, “These people would be competent witnesses in court. Why does the media find a carefully worded City Hall press release better evidence?”
The real story is U.S. taxpayers have paid to fly 210,000 Haitians into the country since Kamala Harris became border czar. They are not citizens; they have no right to be in this country. Some 20,000 of these foreigners were dumped into Springfield, a working-class town of 58,000, without warning, preparation or the consent of residents.
Someone should ask why they were sent to Springfield and not, say, welcoming bastions of progressivism like Martha’s Vineyard. To avoid such inquiries, Democrats created a distraction. They insisted the former president’s cat commentary had incited reckless MAGA-hat wearing thugs to make bomb threats against the newcomers. This was a lie.
Gov. Mike DeWine, announced on Tuesday the state’s investigation found the calls came from a foreign country. “Thirty-three threats, 33 hoaxes,” the Buckeye State Republican said. “I want to make that very, very clear. None of these had any validity at all.”
This is a familiar pattern. When Democrats need to change the subject, they feign outrage over sham hate crimes. Four years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation dispatched no fewer than 15 agents to investigate the “noose” that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, a Black man, found in the garage he used during a race at Talladega Superspeedway.
The supposed instrument of hate turned out to be the device used to pull down the garage door. Video evidence confirmed the same bit of rope had been in place for more than a year — long before Mr. Wallace showed up.
In 2019, Jussie Smollett said two white men on the streets of Chicago shouted, “This is MAGA country” as they supposedly beat him up with a noose in hand. The likes of Ms. Harris immediately embraced the television actor’s cause, tweeting, “This was an attempted modern day lynching.”
It wasn’t. It was a fraud. Smollett paid two Nigerians $3,500 to stage the incident, and Chicago Police were not amused. Smollett was convicted on felony charges for filing the false report, and, on Tuesday, the Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether his 150-day jail sentence should stand.
Thanks to the new openness of Elon Musk’s social media platform, Democratic swindles are being debunked almost in real time. Perhaps, at some point, the left will have no choice but to advance their cause with public policy arguments instead of malarkey.
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