ABC, NBC Falsely Suggest Trump Called Fleeing Bahamians 'Very Bad People'

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ABC, NBC Falsely Suggest Trump Called Fleeing Bahamians 'Very Bad People'
By Nicholas Fondacaro | September 9, 2019 8:59 PM EDT

Just as they did with President Trump’s comments referring to MS-13 gang members as “animals” in May of 2018, ABC and NBC spent Monday night misrepresenting the President’s comments to suggest he called the Bahamian people fleeing the destruction of Hurricane Dorian “very bad people.”

The comments in question came during a press gaggle Trump gave outside the White House. There he said: “I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.”

While leading into a segment about the relief effort for the Bahamas for ABC’s World News Tonight, anchor David Muir told viewers the forthcoming report would cover “What President Trump has said about people in the Bahamas who want to get to the U.S. … People who have lost everything desperate to get to safety.”

 

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