Great example of why this misleading report is a problem. Short, who has a large audience, says "73% of terrorism-related offenders." Not specifically international terrorism. But terrorism in general. That's wrong.https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/953314718738862080 …
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Yesterday, I explained that the report was misleading because it looked only at international terrorism. Today, POTUS dropped the "international" qualifier and just said "terrorism-related." Benefit of the doubt removed. This is coordinated disinformation.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/953406423177859073 …
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Why are they screaming at us?
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I had a similar reaction. That's adds to my impression that it's deliberately misleading.
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Steven Miller type of misleading perhaps?
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I don't know. It comes from within the Justice Department, which is led by AG Jeff Sessions. But I don't know which higher-ups, if any, are directly responsible for the report or that style of announcement.
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They're making up statistics and cherry picking the few real ones that work in their favor. They want to pretend immigration is a growing problem, when in fact it's waning.
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This is not the only stupidity, war against imagined dragons good for making money.
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