Why the MSM Is Ignoring Trump's Sex Trafficking Busts

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Why the MSM Is Ignoring Trump's Sex Trafficking Busts
Townhall, Feb 25, 2017, Liz Crokin

Since President Donald Trump has been sworn in on Jan. 20, authorities have arrested an unprecedented number of sexual predators involved in child sex trafficking rings in the United States. This should be one of the biggest stories in the national news. Instead, the mainstream media has barely, if at all, covered any of these mass pedophile arrests. This begs the question – why?

As a strong advocate for sex crime victims, I’ve been closely following the pedophile arrests since Trump took office. There have been a staggering 1,500-plus arrests in one short month; compare that to less than 400 sex trafficking-related arrests in 2014 according to the FBI. It’s been clear to me for awhile that Trump would make human trafficking a top priority. On October 8, 2012, Trump tweeted: 

"Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts. Too many incidents – fast trial, death penalty."

My suspicions were confirmed on Feb. 23 when Trump gave a press conference from the White House addressing how human trafficking is a “dire problem” domestically and internationally. He gave further confirmation when he said: “Dedicated men and women across the federal government have focused on this for some time as you know -- it’s been much more focused over the last four weeks.” Trump’s press conference was barely a blip in the mainstream media and the massive arrests have been almost completely ignored by the MSM altogether. Here’s a rundown of some of the massive sex trafficking rings that have been broken up since Trump took office.

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The good news is that we have a president who genuinely does care about children and he’s vowed to make solving the human trafficking epidemic a priority. The recent pedophile arrests are just the tip of the iceberg and, whether Tapper and his ilk in the MSM like it or not, this story will eventually get so big that they will be forced to cover this horrific epidemic that has plagued our country for too damn long.


Read more:  https://townhall.com/columnists/lizcrokin/2017/02/25/why-the-msm-is-ignoring-trumps-sex-trafficking-busts-n2290379

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 23, 2017
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Remarks by President Trump at Listening Session on Domestic and International Human Trafficking
Roosevelt Room
2:40 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, everybody, very nice.  Nice to see you.  Well, I want to thank Dina and Ivanka and everybody for working so hard to set this up.  It's been so important to them, and I want to make it clear today that my administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of human trafficking.  And I am prepared to bring the full force and weight of our government to the federal and at the federal level, and the other highest levels, whatever we can do, in order to solve this horrific problem.  It's getting worse and it's happening in the United States in addition to the rest of the world, but it's happening in the United States, which is terrible. 

Human trafficking is a dire problem, both domestically and internationally, and is one that's made really a challenge.  And it's really made possible to a large extent, more of a modern phenomenon, by what's taking place on the Internet, as you probably know.  Solving the human trafficking epidemic, which is what it is, is a priority for my administration.  We're going to help out a lot.  "Solve" is a wonderful word, a beautiful word, but I can tell you, we're going to help a lot. 

I'll direct the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies that have a role in preventing human trafficking to take a hard look at the resources and personnel that they're currently devoting to this fight.  Now, they are devoting a lot, but we're going to be devoting more.

Dedicated men and women across the federal government have focused on this for some time, as you know.  A lot of you have been dealing with the federal government and it's been much more focused over the last four weeks -- I can tell you that.  I cannot thank each of you enough, and the dedicated men and women who run my staff and your staffs in getting everybody together was terrific.  I was so glad I was able to be here. 

You start with really a tremendous amount of energy and blood, sweat and tears.  Government can be helpful, but without you, nothing would happen.  So, again, I want to thank everybody in this room.  It's a very, very terrible problem.  It's not talked about enough.  People don't know enough about it.  And we're going to talk about it, and we're going to bring it out into the open and hopefully we're going to do a great deal to help prevent some of the horrific -- really horrific -- crimes that are taking place.

And I can see -- I really can say, in this country, people don't realize how bad it is in this country, but in this country and all over the world.  So thank you all for being here.

Thank you very much.

END
 2:44 P.M. EST

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/23/remarks-president-trump-listening-session-domestic-and-international

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I want to see the stats on how many of the victims are actually minors or trafficked.