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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent out a pair of
tweets Wednesday and earlier this month with photos of migrants
sleeping on a detention center floor to publicize an immigration
hearing in Capitol Hill.
Just one problem � the pics were snapped in 2014, during the
Obama Administration.
The Dems deleted the two messages, and claimed it was an �error.�
Democrats on the panel sent one of the tweets soon after 1:30
p.m. on Wednesday, Fox News reported, citing a screenshot of the
tweet captured by the Trump 2020 campaign.
�Last week, members of our committee visited a detention center
at the souther border and discovered grotesque treatment of
children,� they wrote in the message. �This week, we are
examining the inhumane treatment of the children in these
detention centers.�
The tweet included a photo taken by an Associated Press
photographer of detained migrants sleeping on the floor of a
detention center in Arizona.
The Trump campaign, tweeting from the handle @TrumpWarRoom,
highlighted the gaffe in their own tweet.
�House Democrats are promoting their �civil rights� hearing on
�kids in cages� and �inhumane treatment� with a photo from 2014,
when Joe Biden was Vice President,� the tweet read. �So
dishonest!�
Republicans on the panel also slammed their Democratic
counterparts, writing in a tweet: �You all know that�s a picture
from 2014, right? Remind us who was President.�
The GOP committee members then dredged up another promotional
tweet for Wednesday�s hearing that was sent by Dems on the panel
on July 2.
The tweet, which announced the hearing, included the same
Associated Press photograph from 2014.
�You deleted the last one. But this picture is also from 2014,�
the Oversight Committee Republicans tweeted.
That tweet was then scrubbed from the Democratic Oversight
Twitter feed.
The Associated Press published a fact-check article in 2018
after the same photo and other similar ones were circulated by
activists online, blaming Trump for the conditions.
�The photo was an error, and it has been removed. But there is
simply no comparison between the actions of the Obama
Administration and the Trump Administrations,� a Democratic aide
on the committee told the Washington Examiner in a statement.
�The Obama Administration did not separate children from their
families and create dehumanizing conditions,� the aide added.
Yeah they did!
https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photos-to- promote-kids-in-cages-hearing/
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