Do you remember the heat generated by the media when Donald Trump, 2015, came down the Trump Tower escalator and declared his presidential candidacy? (Bold print provided.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They don’t send you. They don’t send you. They send people who have many problems and bring those with them. They bring drugs. They are bringing about crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
The headlines of the day said this was an “outrage” (The Guardian on reaction from “U.S. Latinos”). CNN would later recount the speech and call that specific Trump comment “probably the most notorious thing to emerge from that speech.” The Huff Post said the remark was “outrageous.”
The liberal media fury over Trump’s remark that illegal immigrants were rapists at the US border continued.
It is important to remember the wisdom from ancient times that you should be careful about what you want now.
In this case, that old maxim applies with the evolving tale first told by President Biden – the story of a 10 year old Ohio girl being raped and having to travel to Indiana for an abortion because, post-the overturn of Roe v. Wade, she was unable to get an abortion in Ohio. Ohio officials claim that this story is false. The New York Post, in fact, reports the pro-life Ohio Attorney General has specifically said the girl’s abortion “could be legally performed in Ohio.”
After Biden’s statement, the media went wild, zeroing in on the abortion angle of the story. There was much controversy over whether the first report by The Washington Post had been accurate. Indianapolis StarThe truth or lies of the story? The tale was not verified by any of the officials from either state. Finally it emerged that yes, indeed, the story was true, with the girl’s mother verifying the tale.
The liberal media laughed.
And so on.
Then? Then…uh-oh.
The media was stunned by the fact that the story had been validated. My NewsBusters colleague Tim Graham noticed this curious moment as well, noting that in the USA Today version of this story, curiously (or not so curiously!), “nowhere in this article was there any focus on his (the admitted rapist’s) immigration status.”
Why the media’s red face or just plain ignoring the latest twist in this story? Here’s the headline from Fox News:
Ohio’s 10-year-old rapist is a Guatemalan immigrant. ICE
Gerson Fuentes, a 10 year-old Ohio girl accused of rape, is being tried for causing an abortion
Fox News reported this story in bold print to emphasize its importance:
“The man charged with the rape of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio is a Guatemalan illegal immigrant, Fox News Digital received a report Wednesday from a source close to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Columbus Dispatch first reported that Gerson Fuentes was arrested after police said he confessed to raping a child on multiple occasions. His charges include rape. The outlet also reported that he could have been illegally in the country.
The source told Fox that Fuentes is a Guatemalan national in the country illegally and that ICE has placed a detainer on Fuentes, which is a request he eventually be handed over to the agency for removal proceedings.”
Or, in other words
The zeal and support of President Biden as well his liberal media allies for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act has led to the pursuit of the goal by both Biden (and the Liberal Media Allies). Roe with the story of the 10 year old girl being raped, they are suddenly confronted by the fact that they have accidentally confirmed Trump’s point about some illegals crossing the border and, their background un-vetted, committing rape. This is what exactly happened to that 10-year-old girl.
This story is not complete. There is another twist. The Daily Caller.
Mother Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Says Everything Said About Alleged Rapist Is ‘A Lie’
What? According to the DC:
“The mother of the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who traveled to Indiana for an abortion told Telemundo she had not filed charges against the alleged rapist and claimed the media is lying about him.
Gerson Fuentes, the 27-year-old illegal immigrant charged with raping the young girl, confessed to the crime and was arrested Tuesday, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The victim’s mother defended the alleged rapist to a Telemundo reporter who showed up at her apartment.”
This is what does it mean? No idea. What it doesn’t mean is that the alleged rapist is a legal immigrant. Again, Fox News quite specifically reports that the alleged rapist, who has admitted to his crimes, is, per ICE, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, with ICE having “placed a detainer on Fuentes, which is a request he eventually be handed over to the agency for removal proceedings.”
What do we have?
This is what we see: a president and his liberal media comrades going to great lengths to gain a point in post-Roe abortion debate – and winding up with egg on their face when the rapist turns out to be a Guatemalan illegal immigrant who had entered the country during the Obama-Biden administration. According to some reports, he crossed the border seven times ago in 2015 Trump made that statement in 2015, the year he announced his candidacy.
Remember the old wisdom that you should be careful of what you wish to get? Simply put: Simply put, before a president or his liberal media allies release an abortion story in order to make a political point it will help them and everybody else.
What about this particular case? One can’t help but suspect that if in fact Joe Biden and his staff knew the full facts about the rapist in question, the President would have never have raised the story in the first place. Similar to USA Today’s decision not to mention the admitted rapist and his illegal status, the real story would never have seen the light of day from Biden and his media pals because, to borrow from former Vice President Al Gore, it contains “an inconvenient truth.”
It’s possible to imagine it.
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