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Beano O'Rourke peddles false claim that Trump called asylum-seekers 'animals'

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Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a candidate for the Democratic 
Party's 2020 presidential nomination, used a televised town hall 
event Tuesday night to spread the debunked claim that President 
Trump called asylum-seekers “animals."

The remarks from the former congressman from El Paso, Texas, 
came in response to the first question during the CNN event, 
which took place in Des Moines, Iowa, capital of the state where 
the first caucuses of next year's election season will be held.

Sarah Duncan, a research associate from the political 
organization Vote Smart, asked O'Rourke how he planned to 
"restore global trust in American leadership."

Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Rep. Beto 
O'Rourke of Texas speaks in Las Vegas on April 27. (Associated 
Press)

The candidate began by calling Trump's domestic and foreign 
policy a "disaster."

“Describing those immigrants who come into this country as 
rapists and criminals -- though they commit crimes at a far 
lower rate than those who were born in this country -- 
describing asylum-seekers as animals or an infestation. An 
infestation is how you might describe a termite or a cockroach --
 something you want to stamp out, something less than human," 
O'Rourke said.

"You don't get kids in cages at the border unless you dehumanize 
them in the eyes of your fellow Americans," he added. "The day 
that the president signed his executive order attempting to ban 
Muslim travel to the United States is the day that the mosque in 
Victoria, Texas, was literally torched to the ground."

"The day that the president signed his executive order 
attempting to ban Muslim travel to the United States is the day 
that the mosque in Victoria, Texas, was literally torched to the 
ground."

— Beto O'Rourke, Democrat running for president
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But O'Rourke's false claim went unchallenged by CNN Town Hall 
moderator Dana Bash.

Trump's "animals" remark came in May 2018, on Long Island, N.Y., 
at a roundtable discussion of illegal immigration and sanctuary 
city policies. During a discussion with law enforcement 
officials, a sheriff referred to members of the violent gang MS-
13.

President Trump responded by slamming MS-13 gang members, not 
migrants in general, as “animals.”

"We have people coming into our country -- trying to come into 
our country, we're stopping a lot of them -- but we're taking 
people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these 
people are. These aren't people. These are animals," Trump said.

At the time, his comments were taken out of context as if called 
all migrants "animals," a falsehood that was spread by high-
profile Democrats as well as many members of the media. The 
video went viral again in April after a Twitter user uploaded 
the same clip --- and falsely claimed President Trump referred 
to asylum seekers as "animals."

O'Rourke went on to slam Trump for embracing Russian President 
Vladimir Putin and call Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia 
investigation a "hoax" during a conversation after the report's 
release.

When asked about how he would address immigration if elected, 
O’Rourke vowed to grant citizenship to DREAMers and offer a 
pathway to citizenship for all other illegal immigrants in the 
country.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/beto-orourke-peddles-false-
claim-that-trump-called-asylum-seekers-animals
 

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