Kirstjen Nielsen’s rehabilitation tour is still going on, and it’s still full of lies – By Gabe Ortiz (Daily Kos) / July 23 2020
Because apparently it isn’t enough to have just one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary terrorizing America, former agency head Kirstjen Nielsen resumed her rehabilitation tour and appeared at a conference affiliated with another former Trump official, Anthony Scaramucci, this week, where she continued to do what she consistently did while in office (other than separate families): try to save her own ass.
In one moment from The Mooch’s event, Nielsen, who signed family separation into place, yet again lied and claimed there was no family separation policy. In a second moment, Nielsen claimed “it’s so past time” to give permanent status to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. But her actions speak more loudly: Nielsen supported the decision to rescind DACA.
Maggie Haberman of The New York Times gave Nielsen some great unpaid PR help by tweeting this gem of a quote from that conference this week, without any context:
“It’s time. It’s so past time,” Nielsen says of giving “the daca population a permanent status.”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 22, 2020
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