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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2019 7:37:48 GMT
MORE: NOAA appears to dispute Trump tweet casting doubt on global warming Without citing any evidence President Trump is telling Americans his border wall is needed because human traffickers are binding and gagging women with "duct tape" and smuggling them into the United States.
Using graphic and specific detail, he's made the claim about duct taped victims no less than 14 times this month.
On occasion he also drops in a reference to Muslim "prayer rugs" found a the border - a false and xenophobic claim meant to further his erroneous assertion that terrorists are crossing into the U.S. from the southern border.
His most recent telling of the duct tape story came last Friday at the White House.
“Women are tied up, they're bound, duct tape put around their faces, around their mouths,” he told reporters. “In many cases, they can't even breathe. They're put in the backs of cars or vans or trucks."
But according to an administration official who spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity, there is no evidence to back either claim about the tape or the prayer rugs.
What's more, media outlet Vox reported it had obtained a memo written by a top U.S. Border Patrol official asking agents to quickly supply "any information" they had on claims that traffickers "tie up and silence women with tape," an apparent effort to substantiate Trump's claim after the fact.
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