Mayorkas Has Always Known Those Border Agents Didn't Whip Anybody
But he had to preserve the narrative
Facts are facts, but that has nothing to do with the narrative. And the narrative must always be preserved. Without it, the Democratic Party would collapse like a marionette with its strings cut.
Back in Sept. 2021, the journos lied about Border Patrol agents whipping Haitian migrants along the Texas border. And President Biden said this about the hoax:
“Of course I take responsibility, I’m the president. But it’s horrible, what you see, what you saw. To see people treated like they did, with horses, running them over, people being strapped, it’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay. There is an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. There will be consequences. It’s an embarrassment. It’s beyond an embarrassment. It’s dangerous, it’s wrong. It sends the wrong message around the world, sends the wrong message at home. It’s simply not who we are.”
There was an investigation, alright. And the investigation found that nobody was “strapped,” or whipped, or anything like that. But those Border Patrol agents were punished anyway, because the only alternative would be for the Biden administration to admit rushing to judgment.
And they knew it was a lie at the time:
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was told last year that there was no evidence Border Patrol agents had “whipped” or “strapped” Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border — hours before he bolstered President Biden’s lies about the incident at a press conference.
A Sept. 24, 2021 email to Mayorkas from Marsha Espinosa, assistant secretary of DHS public affairs, highlighted an interview with the photographer who captured agents on horseback trying to corral migrants and block them from entering the US near Del Rio, Texas...
Lensman Paul Ratje had told an interviewer that he did not witness the agents harming the migrants, but Mayorkas did not contradict Biden’s false narrative as he stood next to him at the White House podium.
Oh well. They got the narrative they wanted and they won that news cycle. So what if it was 100% caca del toro?
If those Border Patrol agents wanted any public sympathy, they should’ve moved to Martha’s Vineyard.